Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
Sir William Orpen R.A., R.H.A.
Portrait of Grace Orpen (Grace by Candlelight)
Lot Closed
November 23, 04:30 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
Sir William Orpen R.A., R.H.A.
1878 - 1931
Portrait of Grace Orpen (Grace by Candlelight)
signed William Orpen (lower left)
oil on canvas
unframed: 92.5 by 61cm.; 36 by 24in.
framed: 107 by 75cm.; 42 by 29½in.
Executed in 1899-1900.
Sotheby’s, London, 14 July 1971, lot 17
Leicester Galleries, London
Christie’s, London, 13 June 1980, lot 82
Pyms Gallery, London
Private Collection, from where acquired by Sir Michael Smurfit in 1988
London, Royal Academy, Commemorative Exhibition of Works by Late Members, 1933, no. 31
London, National Gallery, 20th Century British Painters, 1940, no. 135 (lent by F. D. Samuel OBE, DSO)
London, Leicester Galleries, Orpen, 1972, no. 30
London, Pyms Gallery, William Orpen, 1878-1931, Early Work, May - June 1981, illustrated on catalogue cover (as Grace by Candlelight)
London, Pyms Gallery, Orpen and the Edwardian Era, 1986, no. 4, illustrated in the catalogue
London, National Gallery, 20th Century British Painters, 1940, no. 135 (lent by F. D. Samuel OBE, DSO)
London, Leicester Galleries, Orpen, 1972, no. 30
London, Pyms Gallery, William Orpen, 1878-1931, Early Work, May - June 1981, illustrated on catalogue cover (as Grace by Candlelight)
London, Pyms Gallery, Orpen and the Edwardian Era, 1986, no. 4, illustrated in the catalogue
A. Rutherston ed., Sir William Orpen, Ernest Benn, 1923, illustrated pl. 5
P.G. Konody & Sidney Dark, Sir William Orpen, Artist and Man, Seeley, Service & Co, 1932, p. 265
Bruce Arnold, Orpen, Mirror to an Age, Jonathan Cape, London, 1981, illustrated opp. p. 97 (as Grace by Candlelight)
P.G. Konody & Sidney Dark, Sir William Orpen, Artist and Man, Seeley, Service & Co, 1932, p. 265
Bruce Arnold, Orpen, Mirror to an Age, Jonathan Cape, London, 1981, illustrated opp. p. 97 (as Grace by Candlelight)
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