Live Auction 6437THE IRISH SALE
Sean Keating, P.R.H.A., H.R.S.A. (1899-1978)
Lot 143

Sean Keating, P.R.H.A., H.R.S.A. (1899-1978)

Self-portrait

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GBP 5,287

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Sean Keating, P.R.H.A., H.R.S.A. (1899-1978)
Self-portrait
signed 'KEATING' (lower right), signed again 'KEATING.' (on the reverse)
oil on board
18½ x 15½ in. (47 x 39.5 cm.)
There is a portrait study of a bearded man by the same artist on the reverse

Specialist note

Sean Keating was the most prominent of Orpen's Irish pupils. This powerful and rugged Self-portrait recalls Orpen's painting of Keating as a youth in The Man from the West (circa 1915; Municipal Art Gallery Limerick, see William Orpen 1878-1931, National Gallery of Ireland Exhibition Catalogue, 1978, no. 93, pl. 16).