Myanmar 36 Sir Gerald Kelly, Burmese beauties

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Myanmar
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Burmese Beauties
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Sir Gerald Festus Kelly was born in London in
1879. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity
Hall, Cambridge. Although without any formal
training in art, Kelly had decided by this time
to become a painter and, with this in mind, moved
to Paris in 1901 whence, helped by the art dealer
Paul Durand-Ruel, he visited Monet, Degas, Rodin,
and Cézanne, among others, and made friends with
Walter Sickert, J.S.Sargent, and, in particular,
W. Somerset Maugham. Fired by this background,
his own experiments enabled him to develop
meticulous craftsmanship with great attention to
detail, as is shown by his immense care in
painting hands, following an overheard criticism.
He became, in 1904, a member of the Salon
d'Automne and his work soon gained for him the
patronage of Sir Hugh Lane and, in 1908, election
as an associate of the Royal Hibernian Academy.
Then, having been deserted by his dancer
girlfriend, he spent a year in Burma, thrilled by
its colour and lifestyle. Somerset Maugham wrote
of Gerald Kellys series of paintings of Burmese
dancers His Burmese dancers have a strange
impenetrability, their gestures are enigmatic and
yet significant, they are charming, and yet there
is something curiously hieratic in their manner
with a sure instinct, and with a more definite
feeling for decoration than is possible in a
portrait, Mr Kelly has given us the character of
the East as we of our generation see it. 
(Hudson, 1975) He became a successful portrait
painter, and was President of the Royal Academy
from 1949 to 1954.
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Pagoda Twilight, 1909
The Moat, Mandalay
Pagoda Festival, 23rd Feb 1909
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Awaiting the steamer at Mingin
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Afterglow And The Village Pagoda, Taungdwingyi
A Little Pagoda, Taungdwingyl, Afterglow
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Water Carriers, Burma
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Figures in a Burmese village, Magwe
White Pagoda seen against the sunset- Magwé
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River Bank Pakokku, 9 February 1909
Moulmein, Mango-Tree on pagoda platform, April 4
1909
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The South Moat, Mandalay, 1909
Palace Mandalay, 1909
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Mandalay Moat IX, circa 1908
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Mandalay Moat XIII, circa 1908
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Girl with a chatty on her head Taungdwingyi
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Three seated Burmese women
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Burmese girl
Girl, (Market) Tanngdivingyi, 25th Nov. 1908
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Mandalay II
Burmese girl
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Portrait of a woman from Mandalay
Burmese girl with parasol
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Burmese Dancer in Yellow
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Mah Aung Saw Myang Carnegie Institute,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Burmese Dancer in Pink
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The Burmese Dancer IV
Burmese Dancer, 1909
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Ma Si Gyaw, Pose II, January 1920
Ma Si Gway IX
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Ma Seyn Mé, pose I (Burmese dancer) 1909 National
Gallery of Australia
The Messenger, a tragic gesture
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Ma Seyn Mé
Ma Seyn Mé, pose
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A fantastic dance Ma Si Gyaw, pose V
Ma Than E
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Ma Si Gyaw, pose
Burmese Dancer No.3 The Incantation
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Ma Seyn Nu Pose VIII
Ma Seyn Nu Pose VI
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Nan Twin Ah Phyo Taw Yein, (Singing), 1909
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Ma Si Gyaw, pose III
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On the stage, Seindán theatre
Dancer, circa 1908
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Ma Seyn Sin as a prince
Ma Seyn Sin
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Saw Ohn Nyun, Princess of Burma
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Saw Ohn Nyun, (The beautiful sister-in-law of the
Rajah of Thi-Paw)
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Saw Ohn Nyun V, The beautiful sister-in-law of
the Rajah of Thi-Paw has made its way into a
Burmese collection
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Burmese silk
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Saw Ohn Nyun XVI
Saw Ohn Nyun
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Burmese pearl
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Sao Ohn Nyunt IV
The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts
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Saw Ohn Nyunt XVII
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Saw Ohn Nyunt XXI
Ma Than É II
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Sao Ohn Nyunt XX
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Sir Gerald Kelly by Sir Oswald Birley
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2014
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