Sale 5133
London, South Kensington
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6 December 2007
Price realised
GBP 11,250
Estimate
Alexander Ignatius Roche, R.S.A. (British, 1861-1921) The looking glass signed 'Alexander Roche' (lower right) oil on canvas 38¼ x 31¼ in. (97.2 x 79.4 cm.)
Provenance
E. Porter, Pittsburg. with Whitford & Hughes, London, by 1989.
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Offered to benefit a new scholarship initiative from Bennington College, this work distils the unique form of abstraction for which the artist would become famous
Ahead of the sale of portraits of four different muses, we focus on the women the artist came to depend on so passionately