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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 29, 2021 | Sotheby's | London | British Art Evening Sale: Modern/Contemporary | 24 | $****** - ****** | Myself and Cupid |
paintings
102 x 86.5 cm (40.16 x 34.06 in)
oil on canvas
Lady Orpen, and thence by descent until 1974
Fine Art Society, London, where acquired by Alan Fortunoff, New York
Fine Art Society, London, 1994
Sale, Christie's London, 9 May 1996, lot 100, where acquired by the present owner
London, New English Art Club, Spring , 1911, no. 164
London, Royal Academy, Late Members , January - March 1933, no. 35 (as Portrait of the Painter )
London, Fine Art Society, Winter Exhibition , December 1974, no. 24, illustrated in the catalogue n.p.
Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, William Orpen A Centenary Exhibition , November - December 1978, no. 73
London, Fine Art Society, Spring Exhibition , 1994, no. 41, illustrated in the catalogue n.p.
‘The New English Art Club’, The Daily Telegraph, 29 May 1911, p. 11
‘The Picture Galleries - The New English Art Club’, The Field, 27 May 1911, p. 59 ‘Art Notes’, The Illustrated London News, 3 June 1911, p. 880
‘The New English Art Club’, London Daily News, 23 May 1911, p. 3
‘The New English Art Club’, Pall Mall Gazette, 25 May 1911, p. 5
Martin Hardie, ‘The World of Art - The New English Art Club’, The Queen, 27 May 1911, p. 66
‘The New English Art Club’, The Scotsman, 22 May 1911, p. 7
‘The New English Art Club’, The Times, 22 May 1911, p. 5
‘Art: The New English Art Club’, Truth, 31 May 1911, p. 1423
‘The New English Art Club - An Interesting Exhibition’, Western Daily Press, 27 May 1911, p. 8
‘The New English Art Club’, Westminster Gazette, 8 June 1911, p. 3
Paul Konody and Sydney Dark, William Orpen Artist and Man , Seeley Service & Co., London, 1932, p. 269 (as Portrait of the Artist (mirror in the background) )
Charles Ince, ‘The Winter Academy: A Memorial Exhibition’, West Sussex Gazette, 12 January 1933, p. 6
Terence Mullaly, ' Fascination of the Self ', The Daily Telegraph, 7 December 1974, illustrated
Bruce Arnold, Orpen, Mirror to an Age , Jonathan Cape, London, 1981, illustrated p. 217, pp. 261-3
Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
Sir William Orpen, R.A.
1878 - 1931
Myself and Cupid
signed ORPEN (lower right)
oil on canvas
unframed: 102 by 86.5cm.; 40¼ by 34in.
framed: 130 by 115cm.; 51¼ by 45¼in.
Executed in 1910.
We are grateful to Kenneth McConkey for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
