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Oil on canvas, 65 x 54cm (25½ x 21¼”)

Signed and dated (19)13

Atelier stamp verso

Exhibited: “Roderic O’Conor - Shades of a Master”, The Hunt Museum, June - Aug 2003, Cat No. 19

Provenance: Hotel Drovot, Paris ‘Vente O’Conor’ Feb 1956; Sotheby’s London 2/11/1983 Lot 72 where

purchased by current owners

Literature: “Roderic O’Connor” (1992) by Jonathan Benington Cat. No. 164; “Shades of a Master” Hunt

Museum 2003 (illustrated)

Nora Hickey writing in “Shades of a Master” (2003) said of this picture:- “The influence of Gauguin and

the Fauves is apparent in the accentuated outline of this studio nude and the broad directional brush-

strokes of the background, which recall O’Conor’s earlier feathered brushwork and striped paintings.

The sorrowful expression, a common feature of O’Conor’s nudes and sympathetic treatment of the

subject invite the viewer to empathise with the sitter.”

O’Conor was friendly with Gauguin and included a work called “Te nave nave fenua” (Delightful land)

amongst his important art collection which also included works by Renoir, Derain, Bonnard, Manet,

Toulouse-Lautrec and Modigliani amongst many of the other greats. He was not only a great collector

but “he was an innovator who had significant influence on his contemporaries and a younger generation

of English artists in Paris such as the painter Matthew Smith who referred to O’Conor as his master”.

€ 8,000 - 12,000