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Of Russian and German extraction, Stella Steyn was born in Dublin and educated
at Alexandra College and the Metropolitan School of Art. She was an outstanding art student and her tutors recognised in her
“a pupil of genius” . In 1926, in the company of her mother and fellow artist Hilda Roberts, she went to Paris
to study at the Académie Scandinave and at La Grande Chaumičre. There she met James Joyce, who later asked her to provide
illustrations for Finnegan’s Wake. In 1931 she enrolled at the Bauhaus in Germany, then the most innovative art school
in Europe. She was the only Irish artist to have studied there and its teachings convinced her to adhere to her avant-garde
principals for the rest of her days. Whilst she exhibited rarely in Ireland after 1930, two recent retrospective exhibitions
have done much to renew interest in her work.
All works bear the Stella Steyn studio stamp
'Self-portrait'
Oil on Canvas
Unframed
12 X 16 Inches
'Reclining Nude'
Oil on Board
9 X 11.5 Inches
'Reclining Nude'
Oil on Board
9 X 5.75 Inches
Oil on Board
10.5 X 16 Inches
'Reclining Nude'
Oil on Board
7.75 X 10.5 Inches
'Landscape'
Watercolour
7.75 X 12.5 Inches
'Flowers'
Oil on Board
14 X 18.5 Inches
'Flowers'
Oil on Board
14 X 18 Inches
'Reclining Nude'
Oil on Board
7.75 X 10.5 Inches
'Reclining Nude'
Oil on Board
10.5 X 7.75 Inches
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