Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 29 MAY 2024

32 16 WALTER FREDERICK OSBORNE RHA ROI (1859 - 1903) Early Morning in the Markets, Quimperlé (1883) Oil on canvas 40.6 x 31.8cm (16 x 12½“) Signed, inscribed and dated 1883 Provenance: By descent from the owner’s great grandmother, who was a friend of the painter. Exhibited: Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 1884, cat no 256; Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, ‘The Irish Impressionists, Irish Artists in France and Belgium, 1850 – 1914’, Oct/Nov 1984, cat no 69; Belfast, The Ulster Museum, ‘The Irish Impressionists, Irish Artists in France and Belgium, 1850 – 1914’, Feb/Mar 1985, cat no 69. Limerick, The Hunt Museum, ‘Lavery and Osborne: Observing Life’, May 2019 Literature: Jeanne Sheehy, Walter Osborne, Ballycotton 1974, no 71; J. Sheehy, ‘Walter Osborne in Quimper (sic) and Pont Aven, 1883’, in Old Limerick Journal, vol.25, summer 1989, p.28, illustrated; K. McConkey, ‘Early Morning in the Markets’ in ‘Lavery & Osborne, Observing Life’, 2019, p.84-85, illustrated; Dr Julian Campbell, ‘The Irish Impressionists, Irish Artists in France and Belgium, 1850 – 1914’, NGI, p.212 € 120,000 - 160,000