ID 1308817
Lot 116 | SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, R.A., R.H.A. (1878-1931)
Estimate value
£ 200 000 – 300 000
The Poet
signed 'ORPEN' (upper right)
oil on canvas
43 1/8 x 33 ¾ in. (109.5 x 85.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1915.
Provenance
Mrs Evelyn St. George.
Her sale; Sotheby's, London, 26 July 1939, lot 95.
Mrs Vivien Wynch, née Stanley-Clarke, and by descent to Anthony Stanley-Clarke.
Acquired for the present collection in January 1985.
Literature
P.G. Konody and S. Dark, Sir William Orpen: Artist & Man, London, 1932, p. 272.
Exhibited
London, New English Art Club: Sixty-Fourth Summer Exhibition, June - July 1921, no. 87.
Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, William Orpen: A Centenary Exhibition, November - December 1978, no. 89.
London, Christie's, New English Art Club Centenary Exhibition, August - September 1986, no. 143.
London, Pyms Gallery, Irish Renascence, November 1986, pp. 72-75, no. 26, illustrated.
London, Imperial War Museum, William Orpen: Politics, Sex & Death, January - May 2005, p. 94, no. 37, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Dublin, National Gallery of Art, June - August 2005.
| Artist: | William Orpen (1878 - 1931) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | William Orpen (1878 - 1931) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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