This cheery paper collage is believed to date from the early 1930s and may therefore date immediately after the period during which the artist responsible, Stella Steyn, was studying at the Bauhaus School in Dessau, Germany.

Born in Dublin in 1907, Steyn is the subject of a retrospective exhibition which opens to the public next Wednesday at the Molesworth Gallery in Dublin. This is not the first such posthumous show; in 1995, seven years after her death, the Gorry Gallery organised a similar event and there was also a substantial collection of her work sold last March at a De Vere's art auction with prices ranging from £300 to more than £3,000.

Nevertheless, Stella Steyn remains less well-known than many of her contemporaries here, possibly because - as the forthcoming show will once more demonstrate - her style tended to change quite often.

Typically, regardless of its indisputable merits, this picture is by no means representative of Steyn, and indeed it would be difficult to find anything that could be so categorised.

Sometimes she painted like a Fauvist, sometimes in the manner of Kandinsky, on occasion almost as though imitating Cezanne.

She was a fine illustrator, clearly had a fondness for still lives but could also produce excellent landscapes; diversity becomes an aspect of her charm. The exhibition will run at the Molesworth Gallery through the next month.