Whyte’s – IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART Auction 6th June 2022.
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Lot: 28.
Title: Artist in the Wind – Letter to Grace (double sided).
Side ‘A’
Side ‘B’
Size: 13 by 8.25 inches (33 by 21cm).
Condition: Some folds visible, otherwise good condition.
Medium: Ink.
Provenance: Family of the artist.
Estimate: €2,000 – €3,000.
UPDATE: SOLD for €4000.
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Lot: 29.
Title: Letter with Self Portrait.
Size: 12.75 by 7.75 inches (32.4 by 19.7cm).
Condition: Some folds visible, otherwise very good condition.
Medium: Ink.
Signature: signed ‘Billion’ lower centre.
Provenance: Family of the artist.
Estimate: €2,000 – €3,000.
UPDATE: SOLD for €4000.
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Lot: 30.
Title: Last day of the Nightmare – Letter to Grace (double sided).
Side ‘A’
Side ‘B’
Size: 13 by 8 inches (33 by 20.3cm).
Condition: Some folds visible, otherwise very good condition.
Medium: Ink.
Signature: Signed on reverse.
Provenance: Family of the artist.
Estimate: €1,500 – €2,000.
UPDATE: SOLD for €3,800.
The finished painting (not in auction).
Nude Study by Sir William Orpen (1906). Leeds Gallery.
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Lot: 31.
Title: General view of the County Louth.
Size: 9 by 7.25 inches (22.9 by 18.4cm).
Condition: Vertical and horizontal folds visible, otherwise very good condition.
Medium: Ink.
Signature: titled lower centre.
Provenance: Family of the artist.
Estimate: €1,500 – €2,000.
UPDATE: SOLD for €3000.
Orpen was probably in County Louth to paint the Vere Foster family.
The Vere Foster Family by Sir William Orpen (1907), Clyde Court, Ardee, County Louth.
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Lot: 32.
Title: BOXERS.
Size: 12.25 by 8 inches. (31.1 by 20.3cm).
Condition: Some folds visible. Some staining, otherwise good condition.
Medium: Pencil and wash.
Provenance: Family of the artist.
Estimate: €2,500 – €3,500.
UPDATE: SOLD for €3,400.
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Lot: 33.
Title: Orpen at Drawing Board (facing left).
Size: 6.25 by 5.75 inches (15.9 by 14.6cm).
Condition: Some staining, otherwise very good condition.
Medium: Pencil and wash.
Provenance: Family of the artist.
Estimate: €800 – €1,200.
UPDATE: SOLD for €1,700.
This sketch may pertain to Sir Guy Dawber (1861-1938).
Sir Guy Dawber, PRIBA, RA, FSA, RGM by Sir William Orpen 1930 (not in auction).
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Lot: 34
Size: 4.75 by 5.25 inches (12.1 by 13.3cm).
Title: William Nicholson & Family – Mabel Pryde (wife), Abel, Ben, Nancy and Christopher.
Preparatory sketch for ‘A Bloomsbury Family‘ (see below).
Sketch condition: Excellent.
Medium: Ink.
Provenance: Family of the artist.
Estimate: €800 – €1,200.
UPDATE: SOLD for €2,100.
The finished work (not in auction): –
A Bloomsbury Family, 1907, 34 by 36 inches by Sir William Orpen, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.
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Lot: 35.
Title: Looking towards the town, Cany, France.
Size: 10.25 by 9.25 inches (26 by 23.5cm).
Condition: Excellent condition.
Medium: Pencil.
Signature: signed lower left; titled lower centre (concealed by mount).
Provenance: Family of the artist.
Estimate: €1,000 – €1,500.
UPDATE: SOLD for €3,200.
A painting by Orpen, also at Cany (not in auction).
Soldiers at Cany by William Orpen (1900). British Government Art Collection.
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Lot: 36.
Title: The Huddersfield Club 1906 – Letter to Grace with dining party drawing (double sided).
Side ‘A’
Side ‘B’
Size: 12.25 by 9 inches (31.1 by 22.9cm).
Condition: Some folds visible. Otherwise very good condition.
Medium: Ink and wash.
Signature: inscribed [Lumb*, Wilson, Hirst, Raynor, Mac] along lower edge. Includes an Orpen self portrait between the 3 gentlemen on the left.
Provenance: Family of the artist.
Estimate: €2,000 – €3,000.
UPDATE: SOLD for €4000.
Lumb was the father of Miss Annie Isobel ‘Lillo’ Lumb (1899-1974) whom Orpen painted, aged 6, standing full length by a Regency convex mirror in which the artist is reflected. Oil on canvas – 35 x 26 inches (not in auction).
Miss Annie Isobel ‘Lillo’ Lumb by Sir William Orpen (c.1906).
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Link to Whyte’s auction: – https://whytes.auctioneersvault.com/catalogues/20220606/40/index.html
Post by Dominic Lee, Orpen Research Archives.