Irish Art, including Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit

Irish Art, including Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit

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Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit

SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, R.W.S., N.E.A.C., R.A., R.H.A. | "ORPSIE BOY"

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

P. G. Konody & S. Dark, Sir William Orpen, Artist and Man, London, 1932, pp.74, 239