Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
Sir William Orpen, R.W.S., N.E.A.C., R.A., R.H.A.
Portrait of Avenal St. George
Lot Closed
December 9, 02:09 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 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.
British
1878 - 1931
Portrait of Avenal St. George
oil on canvas
Unframed: 132 by 81cm., 52 by 32in.
Framed: 156 by 106cm., 61 by 42in.
Mrs Evelyn Florence St George and thence by family descent
Frost & Reed, London
Sotheby’s, London, 2 June 1995, lot 277
Mealy’s, Castlecomer, Ireland, 27 November 1995, lot 432, where purchased by the present owner
Frost & Reed, London
Sotheby’s, London, 2 June 1995, lot 277
Mealy’s, Castlecomer, Ireland, 27 November 1995, lot 432, where purchased by the present owner
Artist’s Studio Book for 1915 – “Portrait of Avenel St George killed 15th Nov 1914 £1000”
William Orpen, An Onlooker in France, 2nd edition., Williams and Norgate, London, 1924, p.91
P G. Konody and Sidney Dark, Sir William Orpen, Artist & Man, Seeley Service & Co. Limited, London, 1932, Appendices, Chronological List of Paintings, for 1915, p.270;
Apollo, Volume XVI, Number 96, December 1932, Mrs. St. George’s Collection of Paintings by Sir William Orpen by Herbert Furst, illustrated p.268
Vivien Winch, A Mirror for Mama, Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Limited, London, 1965, opposite p.108 (reproduction of original 1914 photograph of Avenel St George, upon which the subject portrait is based)
Bruce Arnold, Orpen, Mirror to an Age, Jonathan Cape, London, 1981, pp.241 and 297
William Orpen, An Onlooker in France, 2nd edition., Williams and Norgate, London, 1924, p.91
P G. Konody and Sidney Dark, Sir William Orpen, Artist & Man, Seeley Service & Co. Limited, London, 1932, Appendices, Chronological List of Paintings, for 1915, p.270;
Apollo, Volume XVI, Number 96, December 1932, Mrs. St. George’s Collection of Paintings by Sir William Orpen by Herbert Furst, illustrated p.268
Vivien Winch, A Mirror for Mama, Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Limited, London, 1965, opposite p.108 (reproduction of original 1914 photograph of Avenel St George, upon which the subject portrait is based)
Bruce Arnold, Orpen, Mirror to an Age, Jonathan Cape, London, 1981, pp.241 and 297
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