LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on board

Measurements:

20.59 in. (52.30 cm.) (height) by 29.53 in. (75.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'R. O'CONOR/'09' (lower right), signed again with studio stamp 'atelier/O'CONOR' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

London, Waddington Galleries, Three Painters - Ivon Hitchens, Jack B. Yeats, Roderic O'Conor, July - August 1958, no. 20, as Nu. London, Barbican Art Gallery, Roderic O'Conor, September - November 1985, no. 47, as Nu: this exhibition travelled to Belfast, Ulster Museum, November 1985 - January 1986. London, Browse & Darby, Roderic O'Conor, 1860-1940, October - November 1994, no. 18.

Literature:

D. Sutton, Studio, November 1960, pp. 172, 195, illustrated. R. Johnston, exhibition catalogue, Roderic O'Conor, London, Barbican Art Gallery, 1985, pp. 82-83, no. 47, illustrated, as Nu. J. Benington, Roderic O'Conor: A Biography, with a Catalogue of his Work, Dublin, 1992, p. 205, no. 129, pl. 43.

Provenance:

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Vente O'Conor, 7 February 1956. with Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London. with Waddington Galleries, London, 1958, as Nu. Purchased by the present owner’s mother at the 1994 exhibition, and by descent.