Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 30TH MARCH 2022

66 44 RODERIC O’CONOR (1860-1940) Marine au Clair de Lune c.1898-1900 Oil on canvas laid down on board, 73 x 92cm (28¾ x 36¼’’) Stamped ‘atelier O’CONOR’ twice on the reverse and once on the stretcher Provenance: Hotel Drouot, Paris, Vente O’Conor, 7 February 1956; Musée de Petit Palais, Geneva; Sale, Sotheby’s London The Irish Sale, 22nd May 1997, lot 256; Private Collection, Ireland Exhibited : Geneva, Petit Palais, Peintures Britanniques du XXe siecle , 1980; Geneva, Petit Palais, Post-Impressionnisme (1880 - 1910) , 1/7/80 - 30/9/80; Osaka, and other ven- ues in Japan, Trésors du Petit Palais, Geneve, 1983, no.65; Musée de Pont Aven, Roderic O’Conor 1860-1940 , 1984 no.29; London, Barbican Art Gallery, and toured to Belfast, Dublin and Manchester, Roderic O’Conor 1860-1940 , 1985, no.31 Literature : L’aube du XXe siecle, vol.1: De Renoir a Chagall , Petit Palais, Geneva, 1968, p.41; Julian Campbell, The Irish Impressionists: Irish Artists in France and Belgium 1850 - 1914 , National Gallery of Ireland exhibition catalogue, 1984, p.99; Jonathan Benington, Roderic O’Conor , Irish Academic Press, Dublin 1992, pp.83-84,199. € 150,000 - 200,000