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Notes: Born in 1907, Steyn studied at The Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin (1924-1926), Paris (1926-1930) and at The Bauhaus Schools in Germany (1931), where she was the only Irish Painter ever admitted. There she studied under two very famous artists Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. Her work was regularly exhibited at The RHA in Dublin and at The Royal Academy, London. An elegant and stylish woman it was while in Paris in these early years in the 1920s that she illustrated Finnegans Wake for James Joyce and befriended Samuel Beckett, whose girlfriend she became. Her work has a French influence and in interviews towards the end of her life she stated Cezanne and Matisse as lifelong influences. In 1930 she summarised her work as 'really like a piece of music or a poem, made up of colour and form'. Although the work of Stella Steyn was largely forgotten for many years exhibitions at The Gorry Gallery, Dublin in 1995, The Belgrave Gallery, London in 1996 and The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin in 2001 has seen a renewed interest in her work. Her paintings are included in important public & private collections including The National Gallery, Dublin, The Royal Academy, London and The Merrion Hotel, Dublin. Stella Steyn died in 1987.