Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 30th April 2018 at 6pm

100 Alice Maher (b. ) DiD i reAlly kill All seVen of TheM? (1990) signed on reverse mixed media on paper 133 x 103.5cm (52.36 x 40.75in) Provenance: Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin (label verso); Private Collection Exhibited: Irish Museum of Modern Art: SIAR 50: 50 Years of Irish Art from the collections of the Contemporary Irish Art Society (CIAS) 2006 Recognised as one of Ireland’s foremost artists, Alice Maher explores contemporary female experience through the prisms of history, fairytales and myth. She has ranged freely across quite a range of media, from sculpture, often using unorthodox materials, to animated film and painting. But it’s fair to say that, from the beginning, graphic work has been at the heart of her vision. Some of her best series of drawings feature a capricious young heroine, perhaps an Alice in Wonderland alter ego, who gains a sense of her own power and potential even as the world conspires to deny it to her. €3,000-5,000 (£2,608-4,347)