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Sir William Orpen R.A., R.H.A.

The Yacht Race (Sighting the Boat)

Auction Closed

June 28, 02:51 PM GMT

Estimate

90,000 - 130,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Sir William Orpen R.A., R.H.A.

1878 - 1931

The Yacht Race (Sighting the Boat)


signed ORPEN (lower right)

pencil and watercolour on paper

unframed (sheet): 53.5 by 76.5cm.; 21 by 30in.

framed: 73.5 by 93.5cm.; 29 by 36¾in.

Executed circa 1913.


We are grateful to Kenneth McConkey for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work. 

Herschel V Jones by March 1916
Sale, Sotheby’s London, 22 May 1997, lot 254 (as Watching the Yacht Race (On the Cliffs Howth))
Peter Nahum at The Leicester Galleries, London
Pyms Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner in 2004
‘Studio Talk’, The Studio, Vol LX, October 1913, p. 222
‘A Great Draughtsman’, Liverpool Daily Post, 5 January 1914, p. 6
S. Grew, 'The Severe Art of Drawing', The Graphic, 17 January 1914, p.104, illustrated
The Ladies Field, vol. LXIV, 31 January 1914, p. 473, illustrated
The Art News, vol. I, no. 1, 9 February 1914, p. 3, illustrated
‘Fine Arts – Portfolio of Drawings by W. Orpen’, The Athenaeum, 14 February 1914, p. 235
New York American, 30 March 1914, p. 8
A Portfolio of Ten Drawings by William Orpen ARA – Art Criticisms, 1915 (The Chenil Gallery, London), pp. 4, 6, 12
Colour Magazine, vol. 4, no. 3, April 1916, p. 92, illustrated
Alan and Mary Hobart (introd.), The Art of a Nation; Three Centuries of Irish Painting, 2002, pp. 109-112, illustrated
London, Goupil Gallery, Goupil Gallery Salon, 1913, no. 307 (as Sighting the Boat) 
London, Chenil Gallery, Drawings by William Orpen ARA, January 1914
New York, Knoedler Gallery, Recent Works by William Orpen, 1914, no. 14
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Recent Works by William Orpen, 1914, no. 13
London, Pyms Gallery, The Art of a Nation; Three Centuries of Irish Painting, June 2002, no. 31, illustrated