
Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
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
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
P. G. Konody & S. Dark, Sir William Orpen, Artist and Man, London, 1932, pp.74, 239