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lower right, the touches of colour in the shop or stall in the background on the left, and small patches of blue sky
showing through the clouds.
A date of 1888 is written on the reverse of the panel. But the vigorous surface of the painting and sweeping
brushstrokes would suggest a later date: perhaps the late 1890s, when Osborne was painting lively village scenes in
Rush, Co. Dublin, or, as Jeanne Sheehy suggested in her Catalogue Raisonné of Osborne’s work, around 19012, thus
contemporaneous with his atmospheric painting The Four Courts, Dublin (NGI). Sheehy included an illustration of Near
St Patrick’s Close in her publication on Walter Osborne, 1974.
Dr. Julian Campbell April 2015
1 Lord Killanin and Michael V. Duignan, Shell Guide To Ireland, 1962, 1967, p. 234; and Alan O’Day, The Guinness Family, in Brian Lalor,
ed. Encyclopaedia of Ireland, 2003, p. 464
2 Jeanne Sheehy, Walter Osborne, Ballycotton, 1974, catalogue no. 561, p. 150
€ 10,000.00- € 15,000.00 (£7,460-£11,190 approx.)
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 31This work will be among the highlights on view at Whyte’s Belfast preview, James Wray Gallery from 6pm to 8pm Thursday 14 May and 10am to 3pm on
Friday 15 May.
IMPORTANT IRISH ART ·
25 MAY 2015 AT 6PM