Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 21st October 2019

I rish & I nternational A rt M onday 21 st O ctober 2019 at 6.00 pm 55 41 Roderic O’Conor RHA (1860-1940) Seated Woman in a Red Dress / LE divan (c.1925) signed ‘O’Conor’ lower right and stamped on reverse ‘atelier O’Conor’ oil on canvas 92 x 73.5cm (36.2 x 28.9in) Provenance: Studio of the artist, sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7th February 1956; Guy Loudmer, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12th June 1988, No. 327; Crane Kalman Gallery, London; Grant Fine Art, Newcastle; Private collection, Northern Ireland Exhibited: Possibly Salon d’Automne, Paris, 1927 as Le divan (no. 1643); National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1992, for the launch of the Jonathan Benington monograph on Roderic O’Conor; the painting subsequently appeared on the set of RTE’s The Late Late Show in a feature on O’Conor; On loan to the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 1993; Browse & Darby, London, Roderic O’Conor 1860 - 1940, 1994, No, 27 Literature: Jonathan Benington: Roderic O’Conor, a Biography with a Catalogue of his Work, Dublin 1992, pp. 145 and 222, cat. 274, reproduced on cover and as plate 70 €150,000-250,000 (£132,743-221,238)

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