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

Lot 127
19.11.2024 13:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 127 | SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, R.H.A., R.A. (1878-1931)
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£ 5 000 – 8 000
SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, R.H.A., R.A. (1878-1931)
Study for ‘Café Royal’
inscribed 'Nicholson/BILLIE./De Vere Coles mistress/in love with John/Pryde/GEORGE MOORE- /Rich/John myself & someone/not settled yet.' (along the lower edge)
pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
9½ x 11¾ in. (24.2 x 29.8 cm.)
Executed in 1911.




Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 November 1984, lot 36, where acquired for the present collection.



Literature

P.G. Konody and S. Dark, Sir William Orpen, Artist & Man, London, 1932, pp. 213-214, pl. XLIX.
B. Arnold, Orpen, Mirror to an Age, London, 1981, pp. 281-282, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Pyms Gallery, Orpen and the Edwardian Era, November-December 1987, pp. 94-95, no. 33, illustrated.
London, Fleming Collection, Rascals & Ruins: the Romantic Vision of James Pryde, September - December 2006, pp. 10, 64, no. 1, fig. 6.
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