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This work will be included in the catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by Christopher Pearson of the Orpen Research Project.
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Self portrait in military uniform: 'I'm a bit fed up with this job!/"I want to go home"/1917.'
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Sir William Orpen, R.H.A., R.A. (1878-1931)
Self portrait in military uniform: 'I'm a bit fed up with this job!/"I want to go home"/1917.'
further signed, inscribed and dated above 'To Miss Cara Copland/From her friend/William Orpen/March 1924.'
ink on front free endpaper of: W. Orpen. An Onlooker in France 1917-1919…. London: Williams and Norgate, 1924. Quarto. Half-tone frontispiece and 96 plates. Original brown cloth. Revised and enlarged edition.
9¾ x 7 in. (24.8 x 18 cm.)
Self portrait in military uniform: 'I'm a bit fed up with this job!/"I want to go home"/1917.'
further signed, inscribed and dated above 'To Miss Cara Copland/From her friend/William Orpen/March 1924.'
ink on front free endpaper of: W. Orpen. An Onlooker in France 1917-1919…. London: Williams and Norgate, 1924. Quarto. Half-tone frontispiece and 96 plates. Original brown cloth. Revised and enlarged edition.
9¾ x 7 in. (24.8 x 18 cm.)
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