Six items by Sir William Orpen included in the Chiswick Auctions – ‘Modern British & Irish Art’ on 12th Dec 2023 at 2 pm.

(from the ex-Pyms Gallery collection).

Lot 1.

Study of arms.

Chalk.

42 x 34.3 cm. (16 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.).

Estimate:
£800 – £1,200. 

SOLD for £900.00.

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Lot 2.

Seated Portuguese Woman.

Chalk.
57.7 x 39.3 cm. (22 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.).

Estimate:
£2,000 – £3,000.

UNSOLD

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Lot 3.

Coolness for the neck.

Daily Mail Drawing.
Signed and inscribed ‘coolness for the Neck!/is all very well but don’t forget/The other parts, yours William Orpen’ (lower right); further inscribed and dated ‘To the Daily Mail-/30th July 1928’ (upper right).
Watercolour and pencil.
24.1 x 17.3 cm. (9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.).

Estimate:
£1,000 – £1,500.

UNSOLD.

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Lot 4.

Couple with Fig Tree.
signed and inscribed indistinctly ‘W Orpen’ (lower left).
Pen & ink and wash.
25 x 19.5 cm. (9 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.).

Estimate:
£500 – £700.

UNSOLD.

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 Lot 5.

Possible Study for David Lloyd George (or The Poet).
Pencil.
19.7 x 21 cm. (7 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.).

Provenance:
The Pyms Gallery, London.

Estimate:
£500 – £700.

Sold £550.00

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Lot 6.

Study of a male nude.

Pencil.
22.8 x 17.7 cm. (9 x 7 in.)

Provenance:
With The Neptune Gallery, Dublin.
With European Fine Arts, Dublin.

Exhibited:
Dublin, The Neptune Gallery, Orpen Exhibition, 16 Jun-14 Jul 1971, cat. number 19.
Dublin, European Fine Arts, Twentieth Century Drawings by Irish Artist, November 1989, cat.number 35.

The present lot is Courtauld Institute folio number 31.

Estimate:
£600 – £800.

Sold £550.00.

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Link to Chiswick Auction:-

https://www.chiswickauctions.co.uk/auction/search/?au=1009

Post by Dominic Lee, Orpen Research Archives.