Marie Howet (1897-1984)
Turf Stacks on Achill Island (c.1926)
Oil on canvas, 53 x 73cm (20¾ x 28¾")
Signed

Provenance: With the Frederick Gallery, Dublin, October 1995.

Exhibited: Gresham...

Marie Howet (1897-1984)
Turf Stacks on Achill Island (c.1926)
Oil on canvas, 53 x 73cm (20¾ x 28¾")
Signed

Provenance: With the Frederick Gallery, Dublin, October 1995.

Exhibited: Gresham Hotel, solo exhibition, Dublin 1927.

Marie Howet was born at Libramont in Belgium, the daughter of Constant Howet, a doctor, and Pauline Thiry. Originally, she planned to study music but instead chose art and enrolled at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. There she studied under Constant Montald. In her first year she received several prizes, but the outbreak of the First World War led to her family's exile in France. In 1915 she enrolled in the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

After the war she returned to Belgium and set up a studio at Rochehaut, near Bouillon, later moving to Saint Gilles. In 1922, aged 25, she won the Belgian Prix de Rome, organised by Belgian arts minister Jules Destrée, for her Devant la maison à Rochehaut.

Her works received much critical acclaim in her lifetime and she won several prizes for her work. She travelled frequently abroad, including a visit to Ireland in the mid 1920s. The present work, Turf Stacks on Achill Island, dates to around 1926.

She died at the age of 87 at Libramont.

 

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