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. | THE WINDOW: NIGHT

Auction Closed

September 9, 02:37 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 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

THE WINDOW: NIGHT


signed l.r.: ORPEN

oil on canvas

107 by 79cm., 42 by 31in.

Painted circa 1907.

Goupil Gallery, London, 1907 (as 'Night');

Edmund Davis Esq.;

Barbizon House, London, by 1919;

James Howden Hume, Glasgow (President of Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts 1919-24);

Thence by family descent;

Their sale, Phillip's, London, 7 June 1994, lot 68

Unpublished letter to Hugh Lane (Hugh Lane Papers, Dublin), 16 November 190[7];

Art Journal, 1908, p.30, illustrated p.31 (as Night);

Art Journal, 1909, Frank Rinder, William Orpen, R.H.A., p.22, (as Night);

The Studio, May 1915, Vol.64, no.266, The Edmund Davis Collection II, p.241, illustrated p.230, (as Solitude);

Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, 58th Exhibition Catalogue, 1919, no.263, illustrated pl.5 (as Solitude);

The Studio, Dec 1919, Vol.78, no.321, Glasgow Exhibition Review, p.118, illustrated p.114 (as Solitude);

Bruce Arnold, Orpen, Mirror to an Age, Jonathan Cape, London, 1981, p.214-15);

Hayden Proud (ed.), The Sir Edmund and Lady Davis Presentation: A Gift of British Art to South Africa, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 1999, p.115, illustrated fig.21.2