Sir William Orpen R.A., R.H.A.

A Woman Thinking - Portrait of Miss Sinclair

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November 23, 04:34 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 GBP

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Description

Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit

Sir William Orpen R.A., R.H.A.

1878 - 1931

A Woman Thinking - Portrait of Miss Sinclair

signed ORPEN (upper right)

oil on canvas

unframed: 79 by 66cm.; 31 by 26in.

framed: 95 by 82cm.; 37½ by 32¼in.

Executed in 1930.

We are grateful for Kenneth McConkey for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Albert Henry Stanley, Lord Ashfield (1874-1948)
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 13 May 1987, lot 89
Taylor Gallery, London, where acquired by Sir Michael Smurfit

P. G. Konody & Sidney Dark, Sir William Orpen, Artist and Man, Seeley Service & Co, London, 1932, p. 276

London, Royal Academy, Commemorative Exhibition of Works by Late Members, 1933, no. 5 (lent by Lord Ashfield)
Probably Manchester, City of Manchester Art Gallery, April 1933
London, Taylor Gallery, Royal Arcade, Recent Acquisitions, n.d., [c. 1988], no. 29, illustrated on cover of exhibition catalogue (as Portrait of Miss Sinclair)

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