Irish Art
Irish Art
Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
Sir William Orpen R.A., R.H.A.
Portrait of Mary, Lady Gerard in a Green Dress
Lot Closed
November 23, 04:51 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
Sir William Orpen R.A., R.H.A.
1878 - 1931
Portrait of Mary, Lady Gerard in a Green Dress
signed ORPEN and dated 1904 (lower right)
oil on canvas, oval
unframed: 99 by 67cm.; 39 by 27in.
framed: 124.5 by 93cm.; 49 by 36½in.
Executed in 1904.
We are grateful to Kenneth McConkey for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Lady Gerard, and thence by family descent circa 1955
Sale, Christie’s, London, 8 November 1990, lot 48
Sale, Christie’s, Dublin, 29 June 1994, lot 186
Sale, Christie's, London, 9 May 1996, lot 106, where acquired by Sir Michael Smurfit
Sale, Christie’s, London, 8 November 1990, lot 48
Sale, Christie’s, Dublin, 29 June 1994, lot 186
Sale, Christie's, London, 9 May 1996, lot 106, where acquired by Sir Michael Smurfit
P.G. Konody & Sidney Dark, Sir William Orpen, Artist and Man, Seeley, Service & Co, 1932, p. 266
Bruce Arnold, Orpen, Mirror to an Age, Jonathan Cape, London, 1981, p. 116-118
Bruce Arnold, Orpen, Mirror to an Age, Jonathan Cape, London, 1981, p. 116-118