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Walter Frederick Osborne RHA ROI (1859-1903)
Potato Gathering
Oil on board, 32 x 38cm (12½ x 15”)
Signed and dated 1888
Exhibited: Dublin Art Club 1889, no. 30, 30 Guineas;
“
Walter Osborne Exhibition
”,The National Gallery of Ireland and The
Ulster Museum Belfast 1983/4, catalogue no. 33;
The Frederick Gallery, Dublin, June 1983, p.85 (illus);
“The French Connection
”,The Ava Gallery, Clandeboye, August-Sep
tember 2010, and the Hunt Museum, Limerick, September-October
2010, Cat. No. 30
Literature: ‘
Walter Osborne
’ Jeanne Sheehy, Ballycotton,1974, no 180
‘
Walter Osborne
’ National Gallery of Ireland, illustrated, p.85
Sheehy wrote “The theme of this work is reminiscent of Bastien-Lepage’s
‘Saison
d’Octobre
’ though the comparison underlines the difference between Osborne and
the French Naturalist tradition. Bastien-Lepage is concerned, in the way that recalls
Millet, with the condition of the labourer, whereas Osborne is more interested in the
rural activity as part of the landscape”
€60,000 - 80,000
