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Sir William Orpen R.A., R.H.A. 1878-1931
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description
- Sir William Orpen R.A., R.H.A.
- noureddin ali leaving cairo
- signed and dated l.l.: Orpen 1901; titled l.r.: NOUREDDIN ALI LEAVING CAIRO
- pencil, coloured chalk, watercolour and gouache
- 36 by 46.5cm.; 14¼ by 18¼in.
Provenance
Arthur Herbert Stack, the artist's brother;
Sale, Christie's Ireland, 24 October 1988, lot 45 whence purchased and thence acquired by the present owner circa 1995
Exhibited
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 103rd Exhibition, 1932, no.368.
Catalogue Note
Between about 1899 and 1904 Orpen produced a number of drawings based on stories from the Arabian Nights. This example taken from The Story of Noureddin Ali, and Bedreddin Hassan, is particularly fine, and demonstrates the artist's assured mastery of line, light and shade.
We are grateful to Christopher Pearson of The Orpen Research Project for his assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.