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Roderic O’Conor (1860-1940)
NU ALLONGÉ, c.1915
oil on canvas
signed lower right; inscribed verso on stretcher bar in blue chalk: ‘No. 4 Roderic O’Conor D??? No. 4’;
with O’Conor Atelier stamp on reverse
26 x 32in. (66.04 x 81.28cm)
Provenance:
Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Etude Tajan, Tableaux Modernes, École de Paris (Succession de Mademoiselle
Abadie), 21 November 1995, no. 130
Author Jonathan Benington notes that the model’s blue-painted eyes were added later by another hand, and
that originally she was most probably depicted asleep, with eyes shut.The brightly coloured textile seen in the
present work was used as a studio prop and features in other works by O’Conor.
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15,000-
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20,000 (£12,800-£17,100 approx.)
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