Dancer tying her shoe

細節

Sir William Orpen, R.H.A., R.A. (1878-1931)
Dancer tying her shoe
signed and dated 'William Orpen 1900.' (lower left)
pencil, pen and ink, red chalk and brown wash
12½ x 10 in. (32 x 26 cm.) (2)

來源

Anonymous Sale; Phillips, London, 12 April 1976, lot 125, as 'Dancing Adjusting Her Shoe'.
with Fine Art Society, London, November 1976.

展覽

(Possibly) London, National Gallery, Royal Academy Memorial Exhibition, 1940 - 1941.

注意事項

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拍品專文

When one sees ballet dancers, one immediately thinks of Degas. In the 1890s Edward Martyns purchased Edgar Degas's Two Dancers in the Dressing Room, c. 1880 (bequeathed National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin in 1924). Given Martyns's association with George Moore and the Irish Literary Scene, Orpen may have known of the work. Although it does not actually have a dancer adjusting her shoe, it might still have inspired Orpen in some aspects of the pose. Around 1900 there are a number of sketches in his sketchbooks featuring dancers viewed from the wings. In one of these sketchbooks Orpen also did a drawing of a Seated Girl with a remarkably similar pose. (See Pyms Gallery, 1981, William Orpen 1878-1931: Early Work, no. 92.)

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