44 Fitzwilliam Square: Works from the Estate of the Late Patrick Kelly
44 Fitzwilliam Square: Works from the Estate of the Late Patrick Kelly
Auction Closed
November 10, 04:34 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
ALOYSIUS O'KELLY
1853-1936
THE MARKET
signed l.r: ALOYSIUS O'KELLY
oil on canvas
54 by 65.5cm., 21¼ by 25¾in.
Sotheby's, London, 13 May 2005, lot 33
The present work depicts a market in Brittany, with women and children in traditional Breton dress gathered around a clog stall. O'Kelly first visited Brittany in the summer of 1876, having earlier travelled to Paris to study. In France, he was inspired by the new naturalist plein air movement, evident in the bright and painterly manner of the present work. An adventurous artist-traveller, after returning from the United States O'Kelly returned to Brittany in 1902 and stayed there for prolonged periods over the next twenty years.