Live Auction 799820th Century British & Irish Art
Roderic O'Conor (1860-1940)
Lot 133

Roderic O'Conor (1860-1940)

A Quiet Read

Closed17 November 2011

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GBP 43,250

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Roderic O'Conor (1860-1940)
A Quiet Read
oil on board
29½ x 20¾in. (75 x 52.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1912.

probably, The Artist's Studio Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1956.
with Crane Kalman Gallery, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 9 May 1996, lot 89, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

By the decade 1910-1920, O'Conor's art returned to more 'academic standards of representation, with carefully delineated and modelled forms painting in restrained colours ... He relinquished landscape paintings in favour of female figure subjects, still lifes and the occasional self-portrait. He expended the utmost care in the placing of figures, objects and backgrounds in order to achieve balanced and harmonious compositions' (see J. Benington, Roderic O'Conor, Dublin, 1992, pp. 123-124).