LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

91.5 by 71cm., 36 by 28in.

Markings:

signed l.l.: ORPEN

Exhibited:

London, White City, 'Irish Village' (organised by Hugh Lane) at Franco British Exhibition, 10 July - 31 October 1908, no.15;; Glasgow, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, 1909, no.638;; Possibly Dusseldorf, 1910;; London, The Coronation Exhibition, 18 May - 23 October 1911, no.795;; New York, M. Knoedler & Co, Recent Works by William Orpen, March 1914, no.22;; Buffalo, Fine Arts Academy, Recent Works by William Orpen, April 1914, no.18;; Toronto, Canadian National Exhibition, 1923, no.44;; New York, M. Knoedler & Co, Orpen Memorial Exhibition, 18-30 January 1932, no.26;; New York, Museum of Irish Art, Sir William Orpen Memorial Exhibition, 1934, no.29;; National Gallery of Ireland, William Orpen Centenary Exhibition, 1978, no.84

Literature:

Artist's Studio Book Reference: 17/04-1908;; Konody & Dark, William Orpen, Artist and Man, Seeley Service, London, 1932, in their chronological list for 1907, p.267;; Untitled photograph (Source Knoedler, London, 1922), in the Witt Library, London;; Marguerite Steen, William Nicholson, Collins, 1943, pp.104-105;; Bruce Arnold, Orpen: Mirror to an Age, London, 1981, p.282;; Andrew Nicholson, William Nicholson, Painter, Giles de la Mare, London, 1996, p.92;; Patricia Reed, William Nicholson: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Yale University Press, 2011, pp.128, 151

Provenance:

Purchased by Knoedler, 1910;; Grosvenor Galleries, London, 1913;; Purchased by Colnaghi & Co., London, 1947;; Purchased from the above by Hunter's Gallery, Dublin, where purchased by the father of the present owner c.1947 and thence by descent