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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 Kelly’s 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.

The Moat, MandalayPagoda Festival, 23rd Feb 1909

Pagoda: Twilight, 1909

Awaiting the steamer at Mingin

A Little Pagoda, Taungdwingyl, Afterglow

Afterglow And The Village Pagoda, Taungdwingyi

Water Carriers, Burma

Figures in a Burmese village, Magwe

White Pagoda seen against the sunset- Magwé

Moulmein, Mango-Tree on pagoda platform, April 4 1909

River Bank Pakokku, 9 February 1909

Palace Mandalay, 1909

The South Moat, Mandalay, 1909

Mandalay Moat IX, circa 1908

Mandalay Moat XIII, circa 1908

Girl with a chatty on her

head; Taungdwingyi

Three seated Burmese women

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Girl, (Market) Tanngdivingyi, 25th Nov. 1908

Burmese girl

Mandalay II

Burmese girl with parasol

Portrait of a woman from Mandalay

Burmese Dancer in Yellow

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Burmese Dancer in Pink

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The Messenger, a tragic gesture

Ma Seyn Mé, pose I (Burmese

dancer) 1909 National Gallery

of Australia

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Ma Seyn Mé, pose

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A fantastic dance: Ma Si Gyaw, pose V

Burmese Dancer No.3; The Incantation

Ma Si Gyaw, pose

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Nan Twin Ah Phyo Taw Yein, (Singing), 1909

Ma Si Gyaw, pose III

Dancer, circa 1908

On the stage, Seindán theatre

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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

Burmese silk

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Burmese pearl

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Sir Gerald Kelly by Sir Oswald Birley

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