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Sir William Orpen RA RI RHA (1878-1931)
PORTRAIT OF GRACE WESTRAY
sanguine Conté crayon on rag paper
12.50 by 9.75in. (31.75 by 24.77cm)
Provenance:
Whyte’s, 27 April 2004, lot 53;
Private collection
With a study of another student thought to be Ursula Tyrwhitt
(1878-1966), in a dress with mutton-leg sleeves, looking over her
left shoulder, her face in profile, on reverse. Grace Mildred
Westray (1878-?) was an art student from Staffordshire, who
studied at the Slade at the same time as Orpen and Augustus
John. She was the subject of at least three sketches by John,
which are now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and was
painted on another occasion by Orpen.These drawings date
from Orpen’s period of study at the Slade (1897-1900) and
demonstrate his prodigious gifts as a draughtsman.
€1,800-€2,200 (£1,500-£1,900 approx.)
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Sir William Orpen RA RI RHA
(1878-1931)
NUDE, c.1900
pencil
11 by 8.50in. (27.94 by 21.59cm)
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist c. 1901 by Michael
Salaman;
Thence by descent to Michael Salaman;
Private collection
Exhibited:
‘William Orpen: Early Work’, Pyms Gallery, London,
20 May -12 June 1981 (illustrated on final page of
catalogue)
€800-€1,000 (£690-£860 approx.)
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Michael Healy (1873-1941)
DUBLINERS (A PAIR)
watercolour
with inscribed Dawson Gallery label on reverse
7.50 by 4.75in. (19.05 by 12.07cm)
Provenance:
Dawson Gallery, Dublin;
Whence purchased by the previous owners;
Whyte’s, 25 February 2008, lot 92;
Private collection
In the original, uniform frames of the Dawson Gallery, Dublin.
€800-€1,000 (£690-£860 approx.)
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