ID 1308874
Lot 68 | SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, R.A., R.H.A. (1878-1931)
Estimate value
£ 400 000 – 600 000
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.
| 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 |
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