Irish Art, including Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
Irish Art, including Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, R.W.S., N.E.A.C., R.A., R.H.A. | "ORPSIE BOY"
Auction Closed
September 9, 02:37 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, R.W.S., N.E.A.C., R.A., R.H.A.
1878-1931
"ORPSIE BOY"
inscribed and dated l.r.: "Orpsie Boy"/ You are not as young as you were, my lad/ Paris 1924
watercolour and pencil
26.5 by 23cm., 10½ by 9in.
Possibly Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham (before 1932);
Mrs Henry Toulmin, California (before 1963);
Christie's, London, 9 June 1978, lot 28;
Cyril Leeper Collection, Canada (1979-1989);
Arches Gallery, Belfast, 1989;
Taylor Gallery, Dublin, July 1989
P. G. Konody & S. Dark, Sir William Orpen, Artist and Man, London, 1932, pp.74, 239
London, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, March - May 1924, no.46 (as Self Portrait);
London, Taylor Gallery, Irish Art in the Twentieth Century, June - July 1989, no.27