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. | THE WINDOW: NIGHT

Auction Closed

September 9, 02:37 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 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

THE WINDOW: NIGHT


signed l.r.: ORPEN

oil on canvas

107 by 79cm., 42 by 31in.

Painted circa 1907.

Goupil Gallery, London, 1907 (as 'Night');

Edmund Davis Esq.;

Barbizon House, London, by 1919;

James Howden Hume, Glasgow (President of Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts 1919-24);

Thence by family descent;

Their sale, Phillip's, London, 7 June 1994, lot 68

Unpublished letter to Hugh Lane (Hugh Lane Papers, Dublin), 16 November 190[7];

Art Journal, 1908, p.30, illustrated p.31 (as Night);

Art Journal, 1909, Frank Rinder, William Orpen, R.H.A., p.22, (as Night);

The Studio, May 1915, Vol.64, no.266, The Edmund Davis Collection II, p.241, illustrated p.230, (as Solitude);

Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, 58th Exhibition Catalogue, 1919, no.263, illustrated pl.5 (as Solitude);

The Studio, Dec 1919, Vol.78, no.321, Glasgow Exhibition Review, p.118, illustrated p.114 (as Solitude);

Bruce Arnold, Orpen, Mirror to an Age, Jonathan Cape, London, 1981, p.214-15);

Hayden Proud (ed.), The Sir Edmund and Lady Davis Presentation: A Gift of British Art to South Africa, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 1999, p.115, illustrated fig.21.2

London, Goupil Gallery Salon, Winter Exhibition, October - December 1907, no.91 (as Night);

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Summer Exhibition: Twenty Years of British Art 1890-1910, 10 May – 19 June 1910, Lower Gallery, no.10, (as Solitude), lent by Edmund Davis Esq.;    

Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery, Autumn Exhibition, September 1910, no.3, (as Solitude), lent by Edmund Davis Esq.;

London, French Gallery, 105th Exhibition: The Edmund Davis Collection, 4 March – 25 March 1915, no.34, (as Solitude);

Glasgow, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, 58th Exhibition, 4 October – 13 December 1919, no.263, (as Solitude, illustrated in exh. cat. p.l.5), lent by J. Howden Hume Esq.

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