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

Lot 70
19.11.2024 13:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 70 | SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, R.A., R.H.A. (1878-1931)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, R.A., R.H.A. (1878-1931)
Changing Billets, Picardy
signed 'ORPEN' (lower left)
oil on canvas
36 x 30 in. (91.5 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1918.




Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 November 1989, lot 52, where acquired for the present collection.



Literature

W. Orpen, An Onlooker in France: 1917-1919, London, 1921, p. ix, pl. XXIII.
‘London Art Shows’, The Scotsman, 12 November 1929, p. 13.
‘The New English Art Club’, Western Morning Mail, 13 November 1929, p. 3.
‘Round the Autumn Art Shows’, The Bystander, 20 November 1929, p. 394.
P.G. Konody and S. Dark, Sir William Orpen: Artist and Man, London, 1932, pp. 256, 280, pl. LXIII.
B. Arnold, Orpen: Mirror to an Age, London, 1981, p. 339.
R. Upstone and A. Weight (eds.), William Orpen: An Onlooker in France, A Critical Edition of the Artist’s War Memoir, London, 2008, p. 135, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, New English Art Club, 1929, no. 142.
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, A Free Spirit: Irish Art 1860-1960, June - July 1990, p. 146-147, no. 38, illustrated.
London, Pyms Gallery, An Ireland … Imagined: An Exhibition of Irish Paintings and Drawings, October - November 1993, pp. 54 - 55, no. 30, illustrated. London, Imperial War Museum, William Orpen: Politics, Sex & Death, January - May 2005, p. 36, no. 60, 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, p. 36, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.
Artist:William Orpen (1878 - 1931)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Modern art
Genre:Cityscape
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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