SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, R.A., R.H.A. (1878-1931)

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Los 68 | SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, R.A., R.H.A. (1878-1931)
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SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, R.A., R.H.A. (1878-1931)
The Thinker on the Butte de Warlencourt
signed 'ORPEN' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 1/8 x 30 ¼ in. (91.8 x 76.9 cm.)
Painted in 1918.




Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 November 1989, lot 54.
Private collection, UK.
Acquired from the above for the present collection in February 1995.



Literature

P.G. Konody and S. Dark, Sir William Orpen: Artist & Man, London, 1932, p. 278.
B. Arnold, Orpen: Mirror to an Age, London, 1981, pp. 322, 325, 340, 402.
K. McConkey, ‘Killing Fields’, The Guardian, 15 January 2005, p. 19, illustrated.
R. Upstone and A. Weight (eds.), William Orpen: An Onlooker in France, A Critical Edition of the Artist’s War Memoir, London, 2008, p. 125, illustrated.
P. Gough, A Terrible Beauty, British Artists in the First World War, Bristol, 2010, p. 190.



Exhibited

London, Pyms Gallery, An Ireland ... Imagined: An Exhibition of Irish Paintings and Drawings, October - November 1993, no. 30, illustrated. London, Imperial War Museum, William Orpen: Politics, Sex & Death, January - May 2005, pp. 122, 157, no. 61, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Dublin, National Gallery of Art, June - August 2005.
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Championing Irish Art: The Mary and Alan Hobart Collection, April - July 2023, pp. 34-35, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.
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