I Have Trodden the Winepress Alone – Mainie Jellett Canvas

Taking its title from the Book of Isaiah, this late religious composition shows a solitary Christ figure built from rhythmic planes of red, rose and violet. One of Jellett's final works before her death in 1944, it fuses Cubist-abstract form with a blaze of symbolic colour.

Mainie Jellett (1897-1944) was a pioneer of Irish modernism. After studying in London and then in Paris under André Lhote and Albert Gleizes, she introduced Cubism and pure abstraction to Ireland, exhibited some of the first abstract paintings seen in the country, and helped found the Irish Exhibition of Living Art. The original oil is held in the National Gallery of Ireland.

About this work

I Have Trodden the Winepress Alone is by the Irish artist Mainie Jellett (1897–1944), and is among her last works — the National Gallery of Ireland holds the squared-up preparatory drawing for it, dated 1943, and she died in February 1944. A solitary Christ figure is built from rhythmic planes of red, rose and violet. The title comes from the Book of Isaiah, chapter 63. The original is oil on canvas, 76 × 56 cm, and hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI.4321), bequeathed by Miss R. Kirkpatrick in 1978. This canvas print is an open edition, made to order and shipped worldwide.

Sizes & Format

• 60x90 cm / 24x36″

Canvas Details

Printed on artist-grade canvas and stretched on a slim wooden frame - arrives ready to hang.

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