Roderic O'Conor
Roderic O'Conor | |
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Self portrait (c. 1903) | |
Born | 17 October 1860 Castleplunket, County Roscommon, Ireland |
Died | 18 March 1940 Nueil-sur-Layon, France | (aged 79)
Nationality | Irish |
Education | Metropolitan School of Art (Dublin), Royal Hibernian Academy (Dublin), Ampleforth College (Yorkshire), Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts (Antwerp) |
Known for | Painter, etcher |
Roderic O'Conor (17 October 1860 – 18 March 1940) was an Irish painter who spent much of his later career in Paris and as part of the
Early life and training
Born in Milltown,
Works
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In 1892, O'Conor went to
Relationship with Somerset Maugham
In the early twentieth century, O'Conor was one of a group of painters, writers and intellectuals who frequented the Chat Blanc, a restaurant in the rue d'Odessa near the Gare Montparnasse in Paris, a group that included
Personal life and legacy
In 1933, O'Conor married his partner Henrietta (Renée) Honta, who had sometimes modelled for him.[11] The couple lived in France and Spain, until O'Conor's death at their home in France.[11] He died in Nueil-sur-Layon, France on 18 March 1940.[1]
In March 2011, a work by O'Conor sold for £337,250 (€383,993). Landscape, Cassis, an oil-on-canvas, was painted by O'Conor in the south of France in 1913 and sold at Sotheby's for significantly higher than the estimate price.[12]
Works in collections
- Auckland Art Gallery
- Ulster Museum, Belfast
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Hugh Lane Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin
- National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
- Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
- Indianapolis Museum of Art
- Hunt Museum, Limerick
- Tate Britain, London
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Musée d’Orsay, Paris
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pont-Aven
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Te Papa, Wellington
Gallery
- Works by Roderic O'Connor
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Yellow landscape, 1892 (The Tate, London)
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La Jeune Bretonne, 1895 (National Gallery, Dublin)
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Mixed flowers on pink cloth, c. 1916 (Te Papa, Wellington)
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Nude seated on a green rug, circa 1925
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Seated woman in a red dress, circa 1920
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Seated nude with red hair, circa 1900
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Pont aven, circa 1895
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Lezaven, circa 1894
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"Les Korrigans sous la lune - The dance of the elves of Pont-Aven" (Moonlit landscape with tall trees) by Roderic O'Conor, ca. 1898-1900
References
Notes
- ^ a b c d Milmo-Penny Fine Art 2015.
- ^ "Roderic O'Conor Biography". Tate Institution. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ Benington 1992, p. 19.
- ^ a b Dunne 2018.
- ^ Campbell 1984.
- ^ "Irish Paris - Roderic O'Conor". Irishmeninparis.org.
- ^ Benington & Rooney 2018.
- ^ Benington 1992, p. 16.
- ^ a b Calder 1990, p. 90.
- ^ Calder 1990, p. 136.
- ^ a b "Roderic O'Conor (1860 – 1940)". nationalgallery.ie. National Gallery of Ireland. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
- ^ "Landscape, Cassis by Roderic O'Conor". Sothebys. 29 March 2011. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
Sources
- Benington, Jonathan (1992). Roderic O'Conor: A Biography with a Catalogue of his Works. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-71652-492-2.
- Benington, Jonathan; Rooney, Brendan (2018). Roderic O'Conor and the Moderns (exhibition catalogue). Dublin: National Gallery of Ireland. ISBN 9781904288701.
- Calder, Robert (1990). Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham. Mandarin. ISBN 9780749301484.
- Campbell, Julian (1984). The Irish Impressionists, Irish Artists in France and Belgium 1850–1914. National Gallery of Ireland. ISBN 0-903162-17-2.
- Dunne, Aidan (7 July 2018). "Roderic O'Conor: Ireland's great forgotten painter". The Irish Times. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- Milmo-Penny Fine Art (9 March 2015). "Roderic O'Conor – Biography". mpfa.ie. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
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