Modern British & Irish Art Evening Auction
Modern British & Irish Art Evening Auction
Sir William Orpen, R.A.
Mrs. Evelyn St George
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Sir William Orpen, R.A.
1878 - 1931
Mrs. Evelyn St George
signed ORPEN (lower right)
oil on canvas
unframed: 157 by 94.5cm.; 61¾ by 37¼in.
framed: 180 by 118cm.; 71 by 46½in.
Executed in 1906 and reworked by the artist in 1914.
We are grateful to Professor Kenneth McConkey for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Mrs. Evelyn St. George, and thence by descent until 1991
Acquired from the above by Pyms Gallery, London, from whom acquired by a Private Collection, New Jersey
Their Estate Sale, NYE & Co., Bloomfield, 31 July 2024, lot 293, where acquired by the present owner
Vivien Winch, A Mirror for Mama, 1965, MacDonald, London, illustrated frontispiece
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, A Free Spirit, Irish Art, 1860-1960, July 1990
London, Pyms Gallery, Life and Landscape in British and Irish Painting at the Turn of the Century, 22 May - 22 June 1991, no.18