Modern & Post-War British Art
Modern & Post-War British Art
SIR WILLIAM ORPEN R.A., R.H.A.
THE BAR IN THE HALL-BY-THE-SEA, MARGATE
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November 17, 02:16 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
SIR WILLIAM ORPEN R.A., R.H.A.
1878 - 1931
THE BAR IN THE HALL-BY-THE-SEA, MARGATE
signed ORPEN (lower left)
oil on canvas
unframed: 91.5 by 71cm., 36 by 28in.
framed: 111 by 89.5cm.; 43¾ by 35¼in.
Executed circa 1907-8.
We are grateful to Dominic Lee for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work. For further information, visit sirwilliamorpen.com.
Grosvenor Galleries, London, 1913
Colnaghi & Co., London, 1947
Acquired from the above by Hunter's Gallery, Dublin, where acquired by the father of the present owner circa 1947, and thence by descent
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. 104-5
Bruce Arnold, Orpen: Mirror to an Age, J. Cape, 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, New Haven, 2011, pp. 128, 151