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Lot 36
Roderic O`Conor (1860-1940)NATURE MORTE, c.1909oil on canvassigned and dated upper left; signed, titled and dated on reverse; with original price [15.00 frs] and numbered [5] on reverseLandscaPortraite18 by 22in., 45 by 55cm.M. Zeitline, Paris;The Collection of Mervyn & Pat SolomonSalon d`Automne, Paris, 1909, no. 132; `Roderic O`Conor Room`, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, 1995-2000Johnston, Roy, Roderic O`Conor Vision and Expression, 1996, p.48-49This group of eleven oil paintings and etchings by Roderic O`Conor spans thirty years of the artist`s career, encompassing many of his favourite subjects and deploying the entire repertoire of expressive gestures and marks and the high-keyed palette for which he has become famous. The collection moves in time as well as place: from the windswept rocky coastline of Finistère in 1893 (see lots 42 & 44), to the shaded, tree-lined roads near Barbizon in 1902, to the life models and domestic objects of O`Conor`s Parisian studio, and finally to the craggy peaks of the Côte d`Azur. There is even a work that melds the normally distinct genres of figure and landscape, namely the lithograph Two Women in Profile in a Landscape (lot 42), the descriptive title of which belies its innovative conception and its boldly simplified forms.O`Conor`s experimental rigour pervades this entire group of works - he was never a man to go for the easy option of academic realism. With their impulsive, whipped lines, the four etchings evince the clash of the elements on the storm-torn coast of Brittany, an alien and barren terrain that acquires, at the hands of O`Conor, the appearance of a lunar landscape. When he positions the horizon line lower down the copper plate, he manages to make even the clouds appear tortured. At this early date (1893), the Irishman was looking to Van Gogh for inspiration, especially the rhythmic bands of pure colour that energised the Dutchman`s St Remy and Arles landscapes. In 1908 O`Conor would pay verbal tribute to Van Gogh`s paintings as wonderful examples of expression of character pushed to the point of hallucination." Just a few years earlier, on a visit to Montigny-sur-Loing, he articulated the foliage, sky and grassy bank of his oil painting, Avenue of Trees (lot 39) with alternating stripes of colour, just as he had done a decade earlier in Pont-Aven.Whilst the predominant mood of these early works might be characterised as controlled anarchy, at least in the handling of paint, O`Conor was also capable of extracting subtlety and understatement from his colours. This is nowhere more apparent than in Chrysanthemums (lot 38), dating from 1896, when he was rethinking his art in the solitude of the little Breton town of Rochefort-en-terre. Here the feathery touch and carefully orchestrated colour harmonies (red predominating) recall no-one so much as Auguste Renoir, who visited Pont-Aven with his family in 1892 and was eulogised in the exchange of letters between Armand Seguin and O`Conor later in the decade. Similarly, the way O`Conor contrasts the softly blended brushstrokes describing the limbs and torso of the nude in Nu allongé (lot 37) with a more painterly approach in the foreground recalls Renoir`s late paintings of bathers.O`Conor`s affinity for the primitive life Brittany offered sometimes found an echo in pictures from his early years in Paris. In Nature morte (lot 36) of 1909, hand-painted Breton faïence, a white napkin and some fruit are partnered with an English posset pot, creating a homely assemblage that recalls, in its carefully articulated geometry, Cézanne`s famous admonition to "treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone." A few years later in date, the small panel painting Montagne Sainte-Victoire (lot 43) demonstrates how the lure of the South, as celebrated in Cézanne`s landscapes of his native Aix-en-Provence, became too much for O`Conor to resist. Here, using colour modulations at the expense of detail, he achieves the monumental, notwithstanding the small scale. In the years following the WWI, O`Conor continued to paint female models and still lifes, albeit without returning to the Post-Impressionist idiom of his pre-war years. This new development is demonstrated to good effect in Seated Model (lot 40), where the dramatic transverse lighting and the use of the palette knife to accentuate the modelling of forms are in keeping with the methods of the so-called École de Paris - painters such as Dunoyer de Segonzac, Chaïm Soutine and Maurice de Vlaminck. In the background of O`Conor`s portrait one can just glimpse his cast of Daumier`s bronze sculpture, Les emigrants, as if by way of homage from one dedicated interpreter of the human clay to another.Jonathan BeningtonFebruary 2013"
Lot 37
Roderic O`Conor (1860-1940)NU ALLONGÉ, c.1915oil on canvassigned lower right; with O`Conor Atelier stamp on reverse; inscribed verso on stretcher bar in blue chalk: `No. 4 Roderic O`Conor D??? No. 4`LandscaPortraite26 by 32in., 65 by 80cm.Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Etude Tajan, Tableaux Modernes, École de Paris (Succession de Mademoiselle Abadie), 21 November 1995, no. 130;The Collection of Mervyn & Pat SolomonAuthor 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. This group of eleven oil paintings and etchings by Roderic O`Conor spans thirty years of the artist`s career, encompassing many of his favourite subjects and deploying the entire repertoire of expressive gestures and marks and the high-keyed palette for which he has become famous. The collection moves in time as well as place: from the windswept rocky coastline of Finistère in 1893 (see lots 42 & 44), to the shaded, tree-lined roads near Barbizon in 1902, to the life models and domestic objects of O`Conor`s Parisian studio, and finally to the craggy peaks of the Côte d`Azur. There is even a work that melds the normally distinct genres of figure and landscape, namely the lithograph Two Women in Profile in a Landscape (lot 42), the descriptive title of which belies its innovative conception and its boldly simplified forms.O`Conor`s experimental rigour pervades this entire group of works - he was never a man to go for the easy option of academic realism. With their impulsive, whipped lines, the four etchings evince the clash of the elements on the storm-torn coast of Brittany, an alien and barren terrain that acquires, at the hands of O`Conor, the appearance of a lunar landscape. When he positions the horizon line lower down the copper plate, he manages to make even the clouds appear tortured. At this early date (1893), the Irishman was looking to Van Gogh for inspiration, especially the rhythmic bands of pure colour that energised the Dutchman`s St Remy and Arles landscapes. In 1908 O`Conor would pay verbal tribute to Van Gogh`s paintings as wonderful examples of expression of character pushed to the point of hallucination." Just a few years earlier, on a visit to Montigny-sur-Loing, he articulated the foliage, sky and grassy bank of his oil painting, Avenue of Trees (lot 39) with alternating stripes of colour, just as he had done a decade earlier in Pont-Aven.Whilst the predominant mood of these early works might be characterised as controlled anarchy, at least in the handling of paint, O`Conor was also capable of extracting subtlety and understatement from his colours. This is nowhere more apparent than in Chrysanthemums (lot 38), dating from 1896, when he was rethinking his art in the solitude of the little Breton town of Rochefort-en-terre. Here the feathery touch and carefully orchestrated colour harmonies (red predominating) recall no-one so much as Auguste Renoir, who visited Pont-Aven with his family in 1892 and was eulogised in the exchange of letters between Armand Seguin and O`Conor later in the decade. Similarly, the way O`Conor contrasts the softly blended brushstrokes describing the limbs and torso of the nude in Nu allongé (lot 37) with a more painterly approach in the foreground recalls Renoir`s late paintings of bathers.O`Conor`s affinity for the primitive life Brittany offered sometimes found an echo in pictures from his early years in Paris. In Nature morte (lot 36) of 1909, hand-painted Breton faïence, a white napkin and some fruit are partnered with an English posset pot, creating a homely assemblage that recalls, in its carefully articulated geometry, Cézanne`s famous admonition to "treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone." A few years later in date, the small panel painting Montagne Sainte-Victoire (lot 43) demonstrates how the lure of the South, as celebrated in Cézanne`s landscapes of his native Aix-en-Provence, became too much for O`Conor to resist. Here, using colour modulations at the expense of detail, he achieves the monumental, notwithstanding the small scale. In the years following the WWI, O`Conor continued to paint female models and still lifes, albeit without returning to the Post-Impressionist idiom of his pre-war years. This new development is demonstrated to good effect in Seated Model (lot 40), where the dramatic transverse lighting and the use of the palette knife to accentuate the modelling of forms are in keeping with the methods of the so-called École de Paris - painters such as Dunoyer de Segonzac, Chaïm Soutine and Maurice de Vlaminck. In the background of O`Conor`s portrait one can just glimpse his cast of Daumier`s bronze sculpture, Les emigrants, as if by way of homage from one dedicated interpreter of the human clay to another.Jonathan BeningtonFebruary 2013"
Lot 38
Roderic O`Conor (1860-1940)CHRYSANTHEMUMS, 1896oil on canvassigned lower left; signed with initials and dated upper left; titled on original label on reverseLandscaPortraite21.25 by 25.5in., 53.125 by 63.75cm.The Collection of Mervyn & Pat SolomonThis group of eleven oil paintings and etchings by Roderic O`Conor spans thirty years of the artist`s career, encompassing many of his favourite subjects and deploying the entire repertoire of expressive gestures and marks and the high-keyed palette for which he has become famous. The collection moves in time as well as place: from the windswept rocky coastline of Finistère in 1893 (see lots 42 & 44), to the shaded, tree-lined roads near Barbizon in 1902, to the life models and domestic objects of O`Conor`s Parisian studio, and finally to the craggy peaks of the Côte d`Azur. There is even a work that melds the normally distinct genres of figure and landscape, namely the lithograph Two Women in Profile in a Landscape (lot 42), the descriptive title of which belies its innovative conception and its boldly simplified forms.O`Conor`s experimental rigour pervades this entire group of works - he was never a man to go for the easy option of academic realism. With their impulsive, whipped lines, the four etchings evince the clash of the elements on the storm-torn coast of Brittany, an alien and barren terrain that acquires, at the hands of O`Conor, the appearance of a lunar landscape. When he positions the horizon line lower down the copper plate, he manages to make even the clouds appear tortured. At this early date (1893), the Irishman was looking to Van Gogh for inspiration, especially the rhythmic bands of pure colour that energised the Dutchman`s St Remy and Arles landscapes. In 1908 O`Conor would pay verbal tribute to Van Gogh`s paintings as wonderful examples of expression of character pushed to the point of hallucination." Just a few years earlier, on a visit to Montigny-sur-Loing, he articulated the foliage, sky and grassy bank of his oil painting, Avenue of Trees (lot 39) with alternating stripes of colour, just as he had done a decade earlier in Pont-Aven.Whilst the predominant mood of these early works might be characterised as controlled anarchy, at least in the handling of paint, O`Conor was also capable of extracting subtlety and understatement from his colours. This is nowhere more apparent than in Chrysanthemums (lot 38), dating from 1896, when he was rethinking his art in the solitude of the little Breton town of Rochefort-en-terre. Here the feathery touch and carefully orchestrated colour harmonies (red predominating) recall no-one so much as Auguste Renoir, who visited Pont-Aven with his family in 1892 and was eulogised in the exchange of letters between Armand Seguin and O`Conor later in the decade. Similarly, the way O`Conor contrasts the softly blended brushstrokes describing the limbs and torso of the nude in Nu allongé (lot 37) with a more painterly approach in the foreground recalls Renoir`s late paintings of bathers.O`Conor`s affinity for the primitive life Brittany offered sometimes found an echo in pictures from his early years in Paris. In Nature morte (lot 36) of 1909, hand-painted Breton faïence, a white napkin and some fruit are partnered with an English posset pot, creating a homely assemblage that recalls, in its carefully articulated geometry, Cézanne`s famous admonition to "treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone." A few years later in date, the small panel painting Montagne Sainte-Victoire (lot 43) demonstrates how the lure of the South, as celebrated in Cézanne`s landscapes of his native Aix-en-Provence, became too much for O`Conor to resist. Here, using colour modulations at the expense of detail, he achieves the monumental, notwithstanding the small scale. In the years following the WWI, O`Conor continued to paint female models and still lifes, albeit without returning to the Post-Impressionist idiom of his pre-war years. This new development is demonstrated to good effect in Seated Model (lot 40), where the dramatic transverse lighting and the use of the palette knife to accentuate the modelling of forms are in keeping with the methods of the so-called École de Paris - painters such as Dunoyer de Segonzac, Chaïm Soutine and Maurice de Vlaminck. In the background of O`Conor`s portrait one can just glimpse his cast of Daumier`s bronze sculpture, Les emigrants, as if by way of homage from one dedicated interpreter of the human clay to another.Jonathan BeningtonFebruary 2013"
Lot 39
Roderic O`Conor (1860-1940)AVENUE OF TREESoil on paperwith Atelier O`Conor stamp lower right; also stamped on reversePortrait16 by 15in., 40 by 37.5cm.The Collection of Mervyn & Pat SolomonProbably painted at Montigny circa 1902. This group of eleven oil paintings and etchings by Roderic O`Conor spans thirty years of the artist`s career, encompassing many of his favourite subjects and deploying the entire repertoire of expressive gestures and marks and the high-keyed palette for which he has become famous. The collection moves in time as well as place: from the windswept rocky coastline of Finistère in 1893 (see lots 42 & 44), to the shaded, tree-lined roads near Barbizon in 1902, to the life models and domestic objects of O`Conor`s Parisian studio, and finally to the craggy peaks of the Côte d`Azur. There is even a work that melds the normally distinct genres of figure and landscape, namely the lithograph Two Women in Profile in a Landscape (lot 42), the descriptive title of which belies its innovative conception and its boldly simplified forms.O`Conor`s experimental rigour pervades this entire group of works - he was never a man to go for the easy option of academic realism. With their impulsive, whipped lines, the four etchings evince the clash of the elements on the storm-torn coast of Brittany, an alien and barren terrain that acquires, at the hands of O`Conor, the appearance of a lunar landscape. When he positions the horizon line lower down the copper plate, he manages to make even the clouds appear tortured. At this early date (1893), the Irishman was looking to Van Gogh for inspiration, especially the rhythmic bands of pure colour that energised the Dutchman`s St Remy and Arles landscapes. In 1908 O`Conor would pay verbal tribute to Van Gogh`s paintings as wonderful examples of expression of character pushed to the point of hallucination." Just a few years earlier, on a visit to Montigny-sur-Loing, he articulated the foliage, sky and grassy bank of his oil painting, Avenue of Trees (lot 39) with alternating stripes of colour, just as he had done a decade earlier in Pont-Aven.Whilst the predominant mood of these early works might be characterised as controlled anarchy, at least in the handling of paint, O`Conor was also capable of extracting subtlety and understatement from his colours. This is nowhere more apparent than in Chrysanthemums (lot 38), dating from 1896, when he was rethinking his art in the solitude of the little Breton town of Rochefort-en-terre. Here the feathery touch and carefully orchestrated colour harmonies (red predominating) recall no-one so much as Auguste Renoir, who visited Pont-Aven with his family in 1892 and was eulogised in the exchange of letters between Armand Seguin and O`Conor later in the decade. Similarly, the way O`Conor contrasts the softly blended brushstrokes describing the limbs and torso of the nude in Nu allongé (lot 37) with a more painterly approach in the foreground recalls Renoir`s late paintings of bathers.O`Conor`s affinity for the primitive life Brittany offered sometimes found an echo in pictures from his early years in Paris. In Nature morte (lot 36) of 1909, hand-painted Breton faïence, a white napkin and some fruit are partnered with an English posset pot, creating a homely assemblage that recalls, in its carefully articulated geometry, Cézanne`s famous admonition to "treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone." A few years later in date, the small panel painting Montagne Sainte-Victoire (lot 43) demonstrates how the lure of the South, as celebrated in Cézanne`s landscapes of his native Aix-en-Provence, became too much for O`Conor to resist. Here, using colour modulations at the expense of detail, he achieves the monumental, notwithstanding the small scale. In the years following the WWI, O`Conor continued to paint female models and still lifes, albeit without returning to the Post-Impressionist idiom of his pre-war years. This new development is demonstrated to good effect in Seated Model (lot 40), where the dramatic transverse lighting and the use of the palette knife to accentuate the modelling of forms are in keeping with the methods of the so-called École de Paris - painters such as Dunoyer de Segonzac, Chaïm Soutine and Maurice de Vlaminck. In the background of O`Conor`s portrait one can just glimpse his cast of Daumier`s bronze sculpture, Les emigrants, as if by way of homage from one dedicated interpreter of the human clay to another.Jonathan BeningtonFebruary 2013"
Lot 40
Roderic O`Conor (1860-1940)SEATED MODEL, c.1923-1926oil on canvassigned upper rightPortrait21.5 by 18in., 53.75 by 45cm.The Collection of Mervyn & Pat SolomonSeated Model, c.1923-1926 pertains to a series of clothed, female models, painted by O`Conor at his Montparnasse Studio, Rue de Cherche-Midi, Paris.This group of eleven oil paintings and etchings by Roderic O`Conor spans thirty years of the artist`s career, encompassing many of his favourite subjects and deploying the entire repertoire of expressive gestures and marks and the high-keyed palette for which he has become famous. The collection moves in time as well as place: from the windswept rocky coastline of Finistère in 1893 (see lots 42 & 44), to the shaded, tree-lined roads near Barbizon in 1902, to the life models and domestic objects of O`Conor`s Parisian studio, and finally to the craggy peaks of the Côte d`Azur. There is even a work that melds the normally distinct genres of figure and landscape, namely the lithograph Two Women in Profile in a Landscape (lot 42), the descriptive title of which belies its innovative conception and its boldly simplified forms.O`Conor`s experimental rigour pervades this entire group of works - he was never a man to go for the easy option of academic realism. With their impulsive, whipped lines, the four etchings evince the clash of the elements on the storm-torn coast of Brittany, an alien and barren terrain that acquires, at the hands of O`Conor, the appearance of a lunar landscape. When he positions the horizon line lower down the copper plate, he manages to make even the clouds appear tortured. At this early date (1893), the Irishman was looking to Van Gogh for inspiration, especially the rhythmic bands of pure colour that energised the Dutchman`s St Remy and Arles landscapes. In 1908 O`Conor would pay verbal tribute to Van Gogh`s paintings as wonderful examples of expression of character pushed to the point of hallucination." Just a few years earlier, on a visit to Montigny-sur-Loing, he articulated the foliage, sky and grassy bank of his oil painting, Avenue of Trees (lot 39) with alternating stripes of colour, just as he had done a decade earlier in Pont-Aven.Whilst the predominant mood of these early works might be characterised as controlled anarchy, at least in the handling of paint, O`Conor was also capable of extracting subtlety and understatement from his colours. This is nowhere more apparent than in Chrysanthemums (lot 38), dating from 1896, when he was rethinking his art in the solitude of the little Breton town of Rochefort-en-terre. Here the feathery touch and carefully orchestrated colour harmonies (red predominating) recall no-one so much as Auguste Renoir, who visited Pont-Aven with his family in 1892 and was eulogised in the exchange of letters between Armand Seguin and O`Conor later in the decade. Similarly, the way O`Conor contrasts the softly blended brushstrokes describing the limbs and torso of the nude in Nu allongé (lot 37) with a more painterly approach in the foreground recalls Renoir`s late paintings of bathers.O`Conor`s affinity for the primitive life Brittany offered sometimes found an echo in pictures from his early years in Paris. In Nature morte (lot 36) of 1909, hand-painted Breton faïence, a white napkin and some fruit are partnered with an English posset pot, creating a homely assemblage that recalls, in its carefully articulated geometry, Cézanne`s famous admonition to "treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone." A few years later in date, the small panel painting Montagne Sainte-Victoire (lot 43) demonstrates how the lure of the South, as celebrated in Cézanne`s landscapes of his native Aix-en-Provence, became too much for O`Conor to resist. Here, using colour modulations at the expense of detail, he achieves the monumental, notwithstanding the small scale. In the years following the WWI, O`Conor continued to paint female models and still lifes, albeit without returning to the Post-Impressionist idiom of his pre-war years. This new development is demonstrated to good effect in Seated Model (lot 40), where the dramatic transverse lighting and the use of the palette knife to accentuate the modelling of forms are in keeping with the methods of the so-called École de Paris - painters such as Dunoyer de Segonzac, Chaïm Soutine and Maurice de Vlaminck. In the background of O`Conor`s portrait one can just glimpse his cast of Daumier`s bronze sculpture, Les emigrants, as if by way of homage from one dedicated interpreter of the human clay to another.Jonathan BeningtonFebruary 2013"
Lot 42
Roderic O`Conor (1860-1940)LA MAISON DU PENDU AU POULDU, BEACH WITH CLIFFS AND A YACHT, 1893 and DEUX FEMMES DE PROFIL DANS UN PAYSAGE (SET OF 3)etching; (2); lithograph; (1)the first, stamped within the image lower right; inscribed [1/30 / Tirage 81] in pencil in the margin lower right; the second, signed and dated in the plate; the third signed in the plate lower leftLandscaPortraite5.5 by 9in., 13.75 by 22.5cm.Deux Femmes de Profil dans un Paysage: Purchased by Mervyn & Pat Solomon, 1984La Maison du Pendu au Pouldu: Musée de Pont-Aven, 1984, catalogue no. 78 (another edition) (illustrated p.53)Deux Femmes de Profil dans un Paysage: L`École de Pont-Aven dans les Collections publiques et privées de Bretagne, Musée Des Beaux-Arts, Quimper, Rennes, Nantes, 1978-1979, catalogue no. 74 (illustrated); Musée de Pont-Aven, 1984, catalogue no. 84 (illustrated p.53); `Roderic O`Conor 1860-1940`, Barbican Art Gallery, London, Ulster Museum, Belfast, National Gallery of Ireland and Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, from September 1985 to May 1986 (all other editions)La Maison du Pendu au Pouldu:Johnston, Roy, Roderic O`Conor 1860-1940, Barbican Art Gallery, London and Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1985, catalogue no. 102 (illustrated p.113); Benington, Jonathan, Roderic O`Conor, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1992, catalogue no. 419, illustrated p.56Deux Femmes de Profil dans un Paysage:Jaworska, W., kregu Gauguina malarze szkoly Pont-Aven, Warsaw, 1969; English translation, Gauguin and the Pont-Aven School, Boston, 1972, p.224 (illustrated); Johnston, Roy, Roderic O`Conor 1860-1940, Barbican Art Gallery, London and Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1985, catalogue no. 114 (illustrated p.113)The lithograph within this lot is one of only two examples known in this medium. It is thought to have been printed in 1898. Dimensions of Beach with Cliffs and a Yacht, 1893 and Deux Femmes de Profil dans un Paysage, 9.75 by 15.25 and 7.50 by 6.75ins., respectively.An edition of Deux Femmes de Profil dans un Paysage can be found in the collection of Musée Des Beaux-Arts, Quimper.This group of eleven oil paintings and etchings by Roderic O`Conor spans thirty years of the artist`s career, encompassing many of his favourite subjects and deploying the entire repertoire of expressive gestures and marks and the high-keyed palette for which he has become famous. The collection moves in time as well as place: from the windswept rocky coastline of Finistère in 1893 (see lots 42 & 44), to the shaded, tree-lined roads near Barbizon in 1902, to the life models and domestic objects of O`Conor`s Parisian studio, and finally to the craggy peaks of the Côte d`Azur. There is even a work that melds the normally distinct genres of figure and landscape, namely the lithograph Two Women in Profile in a Landscape (lot 42), the descriptive title of which belies its innovative conception and its boldly simplified forms.O`Conor`s experimental rigour pervades this entire group of works - he was never a man to go for the easy option of academic realism. With their impulsive, whipped lines, the four etchings evince the clash of the elements on the storm-torn coast of Brittany, an alien and barren terrain that acquires, at the hands of O`Conor, the appearance of a lunar landscape. When he positions the horizon line lower down the copper plate, he manages to make even the clouds appear tortured. At this early date (1893), the Irishman was looking to Van Gogh for inspiration, especially the rhythmic bands of pure colour that energised the Dutchman`s St Remy and Arles landscapes. In 1908 O`Conor would pay verbal tribute to Van Gogh`s paintings as wonderful examples of expression of character pushed to the point of hallucination." Just a few years earlier, on a visit to Montigny-sur-Loing, he articulated the foliage, sky and grassy bank of his oil painting, Avenue of Trees (lot 39) with alternating stripes of colour, just as he had done a decade earlier in Pont-Aven.Whilst the predominant mood of these early works might be characterised as controlled anarchy, at least in the handling of paint, O`Conor was also capable of extracting subtlety and understatement from his colours. This is nowhere more apparent than in Chrysanthemums (lot 38), dating from 1896, when he was rethinking his art in the solitude of the little Breton town of Rochefort-en-terre. Here the feathery touch and carefully orchestrated colour harmonies (red predominating) recall no-one so much as Auguste Renoir, who visited Pont-Aven with his family in 1892 and was eulogised in the exchange of letters between Armand Seguin and O`Conor later in the decade. Similarly, the way O`Conor contrasts the softly blended brushstrokes describing the limbs and torso of the nude in Nu allongé (lot 37) with a more painterly approach in the foreground recalls Renoir`s late paintings of bathers.O`Conor`s affinity for the primitive life Brittany offered sometimes found an echo in pictures from his early years in Paris. In Nature morte (lot 36) of 1909, hand-painted Breton faïence, a white napkin and some fruit are partnered with an English posset pot, creating a homely assemblage that recalls, in its carefully articulated geometry, Cézanne`s famous admonition to "treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone." A few years later in date, the small panel painting Montagne Sainte-Victoire (lot 43) demonstrates how the lure of the South, as celebrated in Cézanne`s landscapes of his native Aix-en-Provence, became too much for O`Conor to resist. Here, using colour modulations at the expense of detail, he achieves the monumental, notwithstanding the small scale. In the years following the WWI, O`Conor continued to paint female models and still lifes, albeit without returning to the Post-Impressionist idiom of his pre-war years. This new development is demonstrated to good effect in Seated Model (lot 40), where the dramatic transverse lighting and the use of the palette knife to accentuate the modelling of forms are in keeping with the methods of the so-called École de Paris - painters such as Dunoyer de Segonzac, Chaïm Soutine and Maurice de Vlaminck. In the background of O`Conor`s portrait one can just glimpse his cast of Daumier`s bronze sculpture, Les emigrants, as if by way of homage from one dedicated interpreter of the human clay to another.Jonathan BeningtonFebruary 2013"
Lot 43
Roderic O`Conor (1860-1940)MONTAGNE SAINTE-VICTOIRE, FRANCEoil on boardwith faint Atelier O`Conor stamp on reverseLandscaPortraite5.75 by 9in., 14.375 by 22.5cm.The Collection of Mervyn & Pat SolomonJonathan Benington, Roderic O`Conor: a Biography with a Catalogue of his Work, 1992, catalogue no.177, p. 211, as Mountain LandscapeThe subject of this picture has not been conclusively identified, although on grounds of topography it bears comparison with Le Cap Canail in Cassis, which was close to where O`Conor was based for much of 1913.This group of eleven oil paintings and etchings by Roderic O`Conor spans thirty years of the artist`s career, encompassing many of his favourite subjects and deploying the entire repertoire of expressive gestures and marks and the high-keyed palette for which he has become famous. The collection moves in time as well as place: from the windswept rocky coastline of Finistère in 1893 (see lots 42 & 44), to the shaded, tree-lined roads near Barbizon in 1902, to the life models and domestic objects of O`Conor`s Parisian studio, and finally to the craggy peaks of the Côte d`Azur. There is even a work that melds the normally distinct genres of figure and landscape, namely the lithograph Two Women in Profile in a Landscape (lot 42), the descriptive title of which belies its innovative conception and its boldly simplified forms.O`Conor`s experimental rigour pervades this entire group of works - he was never a man to go for the easy option of academic realism. With their impulsive, whipped lines, the four etchings evince the clash of the elements on the storm-torn coast of Brittany, an alien and barren terrain that acquires, at the hands of O`Conor, the appearance of a lunar landscape. When he positions the horizon line lower down the copper plate, he manages to make even the clouds appear tortured. At this early date (1893), the Irishman was looking to Van Gogh for inspiration, especially the rhythmic bands of pure colour that energised the Dutchman`s St Remy and Arles landscapes. In 1908 O`Conor would pay verbal tribute to Van Gogh`s paintings as wonderful examples of expression of character pushed to the point of hallucination." Just a few years earlier, on a visit to Montigny-sur-Loing, he articulated the foliage, sky and grassy bank of his oil painting, Avenue of Trees (lot 39) with alternating stripes of colour, just as he had done a decade earlier in Pont-Aven.Whilst the predominant mood of these early works might be characterised as controlled anarchy, at least in the handling of paint, O`Conor was also capable of extracting subtlety and understatement from his colours. This is nowhere more apparent than in Chrysanthemums (lot 38), dating from 1896, when he was rethinking his art in the solitude of the little Breton town of Rochefort-en-terre. Here the feathery touch and carefully orchestrated colour harmonies (red predominating) recall no-one so much as Auguste Renoir, who visited Pont-Aven with his family in 1892 and was eulogised in the exchange of letters between Armand Seguin and O`Conor later in the decade. Similarly, the way O`Conor contrasts the softly blended brushstrokes describing the limbs and torso of the nude in Nu allongé (lot 37) with a more painterly approach in the foreground recalls Renoir`s late paintings of bathers.O`Conor`s affinity for the primitive life Brittany offered sometimes found an echo in pictures from his early years in Paris. In Nature morte (lot 36) of 1909, hand-painted Breton faïence, a white napkin and some fruit are partnered with an English posset pot, creating a homely assemblage that recalls, in its carefully articulated geometry, Cézanne`s famous admonition to "treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone." A few years later in date, the small panel painting Montagne Sainte-Victoire (lot 43) demonstrates how the lure of the South, as celebrated in Cézanne`s landscapes of his native Aix-en-Provence, became too much for O`Conor to resist. Here, using colour modulations at the expense of detail, he achieves the monumental, notwithstanding the small scale. In the years following the WWI, O`Conor continued to paint female models and still lifes, albeit without returning to the Post-Impressionist idiom of his pre-war years. This new development is demonstrated to good effect in Seated Model (lot 40), where the dramatic transverse lighting and the use of the palette knife to accentuate the modelling of forms are in keeping with the methods of the so-called École de Paris - painters such as Dunoyer de Segonzac, Chaïm Soutine and Maurice de Vlaminck. In the background of O`Conor`s portrait one can just glimpse his cast of Daumier`s bronze sculpture, Les emigrants, as if by way of homage from one dedicated interpreter of the human clay to another.Jonathan BeningtonFebruary 2013"
Lot 44
Roderic O`Conor (1860-1940)HOUSE ABOVE THE CLIFF, SUNLIGHT THROUGH THE CLOUDS and LE VERGER, c.1893 (SET OF 3)etching; (1) etching and drypoint; (2)the first with Barbican Art Gallery exhibition label on reverse; the second signed and dated in the plate lower right; inscribed [2/30/ Tirage 81] in pencil in the margin lower right; third signed in the plate lower leftLandscaPortraite10.5 by 13.25in., 26.25 by 33.125cm.(First) possibly, Hôtel Drouat Salle I, Paul Renard;The Collection of Mervyn & Pat Solomon(First) Pont Aven 1984 (another edition); London, 1985 (another edition)(Second) `L`estampe en Bretagne`, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, 1974, catalogue no. 145; Quimper, 1978, no. 72); Pont-Aven, 1984, no. 71; London, 1989, no. 0.7; Paris, 1989, no. 134 (other editions)Benington, Jonathan, Roderic O`Conor, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1992, catalogue nos. 441 and 430, respectively (both illustrated p.55); Johnston Roy, Roderic O`Conor, catalogue de l`oeuvre grave, Musée de Pont-Aven, 1999, no. 15 (illustrated)Le Verger was conceived in 1893. The original plate for the present work was sold at Hôtel Drouot, 17 November 1975 (lot 172, no. 4). From that plate later re-strikes were made in 1981 by Paul Prouté S.A. in an edition of 100. Dimensions of second title: 10.50 by 13.25in.This group of eleven oil paintings and etchings by Roderic O`Conor spans thirty years of the artist`s career, encompassing many of his favourite subjects and deploying the entire repertoire of expressive gestures and marks and the high-keyed palette for which he has become famous. The collection moves in time as well as place: from the windswept rocky coastline of Finistère in 1893 (see lots 42 & 44), to the shaded, tree-lined roads near Barbizon in 1902, to the life models and domestic objects of O`Conor`s Parisian studio, and finally to the craggy peaks of the Côte d`Azur. There is even a work that melds the normally distinct genres of figure and landscape, namely the lithograph Two Women in Profile in a Landscape (lot 42), the descriptive title of which belies its innovative conception and its boldly simplified forms.O`Conor`s experimental rigour pervades this entire group of works - he was never a man to go for the easy option of academic realism. With their impulsive, whipped lines, the four etchings evince the clash of the elements on the storm-torn coast of Brittany, an alien and barren terrain that acquires, at the hands of O`Conor, the appearance of a lunar landscape. When he positions the horizon line lower down the copper plate, he manages to make even the clouds appear tortured. At this early date (1893), the Irishman was looking to Van Gogh for inspiration, especially the rhythmic bands of pure colour that energised the Dutchman`s St Remy and Arles landscapes. In 1908 O`Conor would pay verbal tribute to Van Gogh`s paintings as wonderful examples of expression of character pushed to the point of hallucination." Just a few years earlier, on a visit to Montigny-sur-Loing, he articulated the foliage, sky and grassy bank of his oil painting, Avenue of Trees (lot 39) with alternating stripes of colour, just as he had done a decade earlier in Pont-Aven.Whilst the predominant mood of these early works might be characterised as controlled anarchy, at least in the handling of paint, O`Conor was also capable of extracting subtlety and understatement from his colours. This is nowhere more apparent than in Chrysanthemums (lot 38), dating from 1896, when he was rethinking his art in the solitude of the little Breton town of Rochefort-en-terre. Here the feathery touch and carefully orchestrated colour harmonies (red predominating) recall no-one so much as Auguste Renoir, who visited Pont-Aven with his family in 1892 and was eulogised in the exchange of letters between Armand Seguin and O`Conor later in the decade. Similarly, the way O`Conor contrasts the softly blended brushstrokes describing the limbs and torso of the nude in Nu allongé (lot 37) with a more painterly approach in the foreground recalls Renoir`s late paintings of bathers.O`Conor`s affinity for the primitive life Brittany offered sometimes found an echo in pictures from his early years in Paris. In Nature morte (lot 36) of 1909, hand-painted Breton faïence, a white napkin and some fruit are partnered with an English posset pot, creating a homely assemblage that recalls, in its carefully articulated geometry, Cézanne`s famous admonition to "treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone." A few years later in date, the small panel painting Montagne Sainte-Victoire (lot 43) demonstrates how the lure of the South, as celebrated in Cézanne`s landscapes of his native Aix-en-Provence, became too much for O`Conor to resist. Here, using colour modulations at the expense of detail, he achieves the monumental, notwithstanding the small scale. In the years following the WWI, O`Conor continued to paint female models and still lifes, albeit without returning to the Post-Impressionist idiom of his pre-war years. This new development is demonstrated to good effect in Seated Model (lot 40), where the dramatic transverse lighting and the use of the palette knife to accentuate the modelling of forms are in keeping with the methods of the so-called École de Paris - painters such as Dunoyer de Segonzac, Chaïm Soutine and Maurice de Vlaminck. In the background of O`Conor`s portrait one can just glimpse his cast of Daumier`s bronze sculpture, Les emigrants, as if by way of homage from one dedicated interpreter of the human clay to another.Jonathan BeningtonFebruary 2013"
![Seamus Murphy RHA (1907-1975)FREDERICK MAY (1911-1985), 1955plaster on wooden basesigned, titled [Fred May] and dated at the](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10092/2876356/168-2013218111821_468x382.jpg)
Lot 168
Seamus Murphy RHA (1907-1975)FREDERICK MAY (1911-1985), 1955plaster on wooden basesigned, titled [Fred May] and dated at the basePortrait14 by 10 by 8in., 35 by 25 by 20cm.Collection of the sitter;From whom gifted to the previous ownerA retrospective exhibition of Murphy`s sculpture was held in Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, 2 December to 15 January 1983. Among the exhibits was catalogue no. 29 Frederick May, bronze [complete catalogue of work, no. 233] on loan from RTÉ. The exhibition catalogue for the show also made note of another example in the National Gallery of Ireland.The Sunday Independent, 5 December 1982, noted It`s the characters that steal the show, in particular Frederick May and Pope O`Mahony. "My father did them because he liked them." Murphy`s daughter Beibhinn told [the reporter, unnamed] "The others were the bread and butter." - a picture of the May bust in bronze accompanied the article. The bronze of May was made in an edition of 7. The present example is in plaster and came originally from the collection of the sitter. An example in this medium depicting the sculptor`s son, Colm 2, 1965 can be found in the collection of the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork."
![Carl Max Kruse (German, 1854-1942)NENIKIKAMEN [WE ARE VICTORIOUS"]"bronzesigned and titled at base; also marked A.](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10092/2876356/171-2013218111827_468x382.jpg)
Lot 171
Carl Max Kruse (German, 1854-1942)NENIKIKAMEN [WE ARE VICTORIOUS"]"bronzesigned and titled at base; also marked A. Clause SC" at base"Portrait18.5 by 17 by 5in., 46.25 by 42.5 by 12.5cm.The Collection of Mervyn & Pat SolomonPheidippides is known as the hero of Ancient Greece and was the source of inspiration for the modern day sporting event, the marathon. Pheidippides ran from Marathon, a town northeast of Athens, to the Greek capital to deliver a message regarding the Battle of Marathon. The modern sporting event is based on a run approximately the same distance.
Lot 363
Art Nouveau medallion, portrait of Beethoven, by Abel Lafleur, signed, marked, 2"w x 3"l; with an Art Nouveau medallion, harvest motifs, by J. Dampt, 1903, signed, marked, #156, 2.5"dia; with an Art Nouveau medallion, nude figure, "Flore," by L. Coudray, signed, 1.5"w x 3"l; with an Art Nouveau medallion, "Et Amant Meminisse...," by Henry Dropsy, signed, marked, 3"w x 2.5"l; with an Art Nouveau medallion, a painter, illegible artist initials, marked, 1.75"w x 2"l, all bronze Starting bid: $125
Lot 711
Edward Wormley high-back lounge and ottoman, by Dunbar, chair with very deep seat and sectioned backrest cushions, bronze bases with disk feet and mahogany inserts, chair swivels, original geometric wool upholstery, signed with brass D tag, chair: 31"w x 40"d x 41.5"h, ottoman: 24"w x 19"d x 17"h, very good original conditionStarting bid: $600
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