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Roderic O'Conor
Self portrait (c. 1923–1926)
Self portrait (c. 1923–1926)
Born17 October 1860
Castleplunket, County Roscommon, Ireland
Died18 March 1940
Nueil-sur-Layon, France
NationalityIrish
EducationMetropolitan School of Art (Dublin), Royal Hibernian Academy (Dublin), Ampleforth College (Yorkshire), Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts (Antwerp)
Known forPainter, etcher

Roderic O'Conor (17 October 1860 – 18 March 1940) was an Irish painter.

Born in Milltown, Castleplunket, County Roscommon, Ireland,[1] O'Conor studied at Ampleforth College, then at Dublin and Antwerp before moving to Paris where he was influenced by the Impressionists.

O'Conor attended the Metropolitan School and Royal Hibernian Academy early in his career.[2] Like his classmate, Richard Moynan, O'Conor travelled to Antwerp then Paris to gain further experience.[3] In 1892 he 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.[4]

Works in collections

  • Works by Roderic O'Connor
  • Yellow landscape, 1892 (The Tate, London)
    Yellow landscape, 1892 (The Tate, London)
  • La Jeune Bretonne, 1895 (National Gallery, Dublin)
    La Jeune Bretonne, 1895 (National Gallery, Dublin)
  • Mixed flowers on pink cloth, circa 1916 (Te Papa, Wellington)
    Mixed flowers on pink cloth, circa 1916 (Te Papa, Wellington)
  • Nude seated on a green rug, circa 1925
    Nude seated on a green rug, circa 1925

References

  1. ^ a b c "Roderic O'Conor - Biography". Milmo-Penny Fine Art. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  2. ^ "Roderic O'Conor Biography". Tate Institution. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  3. ^ Campbell, Julian (1984). The Irish Impressionists, Irish Artists in France and Belgium 1850-1914. National Gallery of Ireland. ISBN 0-903162-17-2.
  4. ^ "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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