Property from an Important Collection of Irish Paintings
Sir William Orpen, R.W.S., N.E.A.C., R.A., R.H.A.
Little Spanish Dancer (Girl in Red Shawl)
Estimate
180,000 - 250,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Sir William Orpen, R.S.W., R.H.A.
1878 - 1931
Little Spanish Dancer (Girl in Red Shawl)
signed ORPEN. and dated 1907. (upper right)
oil on canvas
unframed: 92 by 71.5 cm. 36 by 28⅛ in.
framed: 111.5 by 91 cm. 44 by 35¾ in.
Executed in 1907.
We are grateful to Kenneth McConkey for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Mrs Evelyn St. George by 1907, and thence by descent to Antonia Cole
Acquired from above, 1993
Pyms Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 78th Exhibition, 1907, no. 65 (as A Little Spanish Dancer)
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Winter Exhibition, 1933 (as Girl in a Red Shawl) (loaned by Mrs Howard St. George)
Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, William Orpen 1878-1931, A Centenary Exhibition, November - December 1978, no. 90 (as The Red Girl)
Orpen - Studio Book, p. 10, illustrated p. 11 (details untraced)
‘Royal Hibernian Academy’s Exhibition – Second Notice’, The Irish Times, 19 February 1907, p. 7
P. G. Konody and Sidney Dark, Sir William Orpen, Artist and Man, 1932, Seeley Service and Co, London, p. 267
Bruce Arnold, Orpen, Mirror to an Age, 1981, Jonathan Cape, London, p. 239, illustrated p. 239
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