Roderic O'Conor
Roderic O'Conor | |
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Self portrait (c. 1923–1926) | |
Born |
17 October 1860 Castleplunket, County Roscommon, Ireland |
Died |
18 March 1940 Nueil-sur-Layon, France |
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. Spending much of his later career in Paris and as part of the Pont-Aven movement, O'Conor's work demonstrates Impressionist and Post-Impressionist influence.[1]
Early life and training
Born in Milltown, Castleplunket, County Roscommon, Ireland,[1] O'Conor attended the Metropolitan School and Royal Hibernian Academy early in his career.[2] He studied at Ampleforth College, and like his classmate, Richard Moynan, travelled to Antwerp before moving to Paris to gain further experience.[3][4] While in France, he was influenced by the Impressionists.
Works and legacy
In 1892 O'Connor went to Pont-Aven in Brittany where he worked closely with a group of artists around the Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin, whom he befriended.[1] His method of painting with textured strokes of contrasting colours also owed much to Van Gogh. His nephew, Patrick O'Connor (1909–97), was also a painter as well as a sculptor.
O'Conor died in Nueil-sur-Layon, France in 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.[5]
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
- Yellow landscape, 1892 (The Tate, London)
- La Jeune Bretonne, 1895 (National Gallery, Dublin)
- Mixed flowers on pink cloth, circa 1916 (Te Papa, Wellington)
- Nude seated on a green rug, circa 1925
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Roderic O'Conor - Biography". Milmo-Penny Fine Art. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ↑ "Roderic O'Conor Biography". Tate Institution. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ↑ Campbell, Julian (1984). The Irish Impressionists, Irish Artists in France and Belgium 1850-1914. National Gallery of Ireland. ISBN 0-903162-17-2.
- ↑ "Irish Paris > Artists > Roderic O'Conor". Irishmeninparis.org.
- ↑ "Landscape, Cassis by Roderic O'Conor". Sothebys. 29 March 2011. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
Further reading
- Jonathan Benington: Roderic O'Conor: a biography with a catalogue of his works. Irish Academic Press, Dublin 1992, ISBN 978-0-71652-492-2
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