Important Irish Art
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Roderic O’Conor, RHA (1860-1940)
Seated Woman with Roses
Oil on canvas, 55 x 46cm (21$ x 18”)
Painted circa 1923-5
O’Conor painted another similar work but without the roses
on the table, see Benington Cat. No. 277 (Private Collection
Norther Ireland)
Exhibited: !e Frederick Gallery,
Autumn Exhibition 1998
,
Cat. No. 2, where purchased by current owner;
Shades of a Master
Roderic O’Conor Exhibition, !e Hunt
Museum Limerick June/August 2003, Cat. No. 23 (illus-
trated)
Literature:
Roderic O’Conor
, Jonathan Benington’s biography
and catalogue of his work, Cat. No. 278, illustrated p223
O’Conor paints the subject of this carefully arranged portrait
in a pose he much favoured, with the sitter’s head slightly
lowered and light entering from the side. !is allowed him
to create a tranquil atmosphere through his deft treatment
of light and shade. While the model sits in a conventional
frontal pose, her reluctance to meet the viewer’s gaze and
O’Conor’s adoption of a closer than usual viewpoint creates
an air of intimacy generally absent from formal portraits.
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