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INISHEER PIER, ARAN ISLANDS, COUNTY GALWAY
Ivan Sutton, (b.1944)
Signature: signed lower right; signed again and with title on artist's label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas board
Measure: 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in.
Provenance:
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Auction
Date/Lot No.:
31 May 2010/177
Published Estimate:
€2000-3000
Price Realised:
€3400 |
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GALWAY HOOKERS SAILING IN ROUNDSTONE BAY, COUNTY GALWAY
Ivan Sutton, (b.1944)
Signature: signed lower right; signed again and with title on artist's label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas board
Measure: 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in.
Provenance:
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Date/Lot No.:
31 May 2010/178
Published Estimate:
€2000-3000
Price Realised:
€3200 |
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HAULING UP THE CURRACH, INIS MAN, ARAN ISLANDS, COUNTY GALWAY
Ivan Sutton, (b.1944)
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed with title on artist's label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas board
Measure: 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in.
Provenance:
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Auction
Date/Lot No.:
15 March 2010/1
Published Estimate:
€2000-3000
Price Realised:
€2500 |
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MICK KINANE ON "SEA THE STARS" WINNING THE EPSOM DERBY FROM "FAME AND GLORY", 2009
Ivan Sutton, (b. 1944)
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed with title on artist's label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas board
Measure: 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in.
Provenance:
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Auction
Date/Lot No.:
15 March 2010/4
Published Estimate:
€3000-5000
Price Realised:
€6200 |
| As featured in Nicola Anderson's article, 'Another first for Sea the Stars as Painting Odds on for a Big Sale', page three of the Irish Independent, 3 February 2010. |
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GALWAY HOOKERS RACING AT ROUNDSTONE BAY, COUNTY GALWAY
Ivan Sutton, (b.1944)
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed on artist's label and signed again on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas board
Measure: 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in.
Provenance:
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Auction
Date/Lot No.:
30 November 2009/30
Published Estimate:
€2000-3000
Price Realised:
€3800 |
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A BIT OF SUTTON COURTNEY - A VILLAGE BY THE THAMES, 1887
Walter Frederick Osborne, RHA ROI (1859 - 1903)
Signature: signed lower right; with original inscribed label with title, artist's details and exhibition number on reverse; details are repeated in pencil on the upper part of the board on reverse; details are repeated in pencil on the upper part of the board.
Medium: oil on panel
Measure: 41 by 32cm., 16 by 12.5in.
Provenance: The Rowley Gallery, 87 Campden Street, Kensington, Church Street, London,
circa 1920; from whence acquired by a member of the family of the present estate.
Exhibited: The Dublin Art Club, 1887, catalogue no. 129
Literature: Sheehy, Jeanne, 'Walter Osborne', Gifford & Craven, Cork, 1975, p.121, no. 174 |
Auction
Date/Lot No.:
30 November 2009/75
Published Estimate:
€80000-120000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| Amongst the many villages in England in which Osborne worked in the mid1880s to the early nineties, the name of Sutton Courtney on the Thames is not so familiar. So the reappearance of the picture of this location is an exciting discovery. In the late 1880s and early nineties Osborne’s figures of country people are placed in the mid-distance or distance, often engaging in their farming work. But in the mid eighties, as in the present picture, the figures of the villagers and children are often shown in the foreground.
In A Bit of Sutton Courtney – A Village by the Thames the figure of the boy standing in the foreground, leaning against the railing and fishing, is prominent. Although his legs are cut by the lower edge of the picture, as in a photograph, and he faces away from us, the view of the boy from behind, fishing rod in hand, and sun falling on his cheek and sleeve, is evocative. Although he is engaged with his activity, and the woman on the far bank looks down at the barge, a dialogue is set up between the two figures.
Osborne set several of his English scenes by a river or canal bank, and sometimes - for instance in A Waterway, Lincoln, 1884 (ill., A Free Spirit, by Kenneth McConkey, Pyms Gallery, 1990, p.90-91) - showed scenes of boys fishing. In some of his English villages Osborne was inspired by the deep reds and browns of the brickwork and roof tiles. In A Bit of Sutton Courtney – A Village by the Thames, these colours, combined with the pale blue of the woman’s apron, the greens, reds and blues in the barge, the ruddy reflections in the water, and the white on the boy’s sleeve, create a palette of glowing richness.
Osborne uses skilled brushwork throughout the picture: textured and expressive on the clothing of the boy; blurred in some of the background, employing the contemporary ‘square-brush style’ in the figure of the woman, the doors and walls of the barn, and the ground; and more fluid in the surface of the water and reflections. Osborne’s squared lettering, lower right, is characteristic of his signature in this period.
Julian Campbell
Cork, November 2009
Biographical Note:
1887 is a significant year for Osborne in that it marks a turning point in his career having previously studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp where he was awarded the prestigious Irish Taylor Prize in 1881 and 1882 and, later, like many of his contemporaries, he travelled from Belgium to Brittany, where he cultivated a naturalist style of landscape painting, focusing on en plein-air and Breton scenes in the main.
After two years in Brittany, Osborne repositioned himself in England in 1884 and although based out of his parents’ home at 5 Castlewood Avenue, Rathmines, Dublin during these years, he travelled and lived in England for extended periods of time painting and exploring the British arts scene. In these years Osborne was coming into his own as an artist, no longer a student but a promising professional. He was an ardent attendee at all the London exhibitions where he made copious notes on, and sketched, the works he saw there. One such exhibition which enthralled the artist was the 1884 ‘Institute of Painters in Oil Colours’, where the colour, tone and texture of Sir George Clausen’s (1852-1944) Day Dreams made quite an impression on him. Osborne was closely aligned with fellow artists Nathaniel Hill and Edward Scott during this time but towards the latter years of the 1880s he had relocated to small villages in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Hampshire working in a more independent capacity. Walter Osborne lived in Sutton Courtney during the time when this work was
executed. The barn seen in this painting has been converted and extended to form a substantial house.
During 1887 there is a marked difference in the artist’s handling of oil and his technique begins to change. Jeanne Sheehy in her text on Osborne notes that, “…Dating from around 1887 is a group of small landscapes in which the painter uses a technique of hatching, with fairly broad brushstrokes and a harsh brush.” These observations are evident in this work particularly in the smooth reflections in the water and in the rendering of the cottages in the background. Sheehy continues to describe the subject of these works as, “…sensitive renderings of corners of the countryside [that]…convey a rustic atmosphere without being either sentimental or anecdotal.” A Bit of Sutton Courtney – a Village by the Thames bears similarity to another work entitled Down an Old Court, Newbury, also dating from 1887 and which was also exhibited at the Dublin Arts Club, 1887, catalogue no. 161 [7gns] and illustrated in The National Gallery of Ireland publication, Walter Osborne by Jeanne Sheehy, page 75.
In terms of Osborne’s connection with the art of his contemporaries during these years, he had exhibited for the first time at the RA in 1886 and was also elected to the RHA. He was also one of the founding members of the Dublin Arts Club, c.1886, which was considered the local equivalent of the New English Arts Club (NEAC) founded the same year and to which he was also a member and active exhibitor.
From 1892 Osborne ceased to make painting trips to England and instead concentrated on Dublin streets and in villages of North Dublin where his work began to display a distinct Impressionistic influence paying greater attention to the contrasts of light and shade in his palette.
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GALWAY HOOKERS REGATTA, KILRONAN, ARRANMORE, COUNTY GALWAY
Ivan Sutton, (b.1944)
Signature: signed lower right; signed again and inscribed on artist's label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas laid on board
Measure: 50 by 75cm., 19.5 by 29.5in.
Provenance:
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Date/Lot No.:
28 September 2009/19
Published Estimate:
€2000-3000
Price Realised:
€1800 |
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REGATTA DAY, ROUNDSTONE, COUNTY GALWAY
Ivan Sutton, (b.1944)
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed on artist's label on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Measure: 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in.
Provenance:
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Date/Lot No.:
18 May 2009/192
Published Estimate:
€2000-3000
Price Realised:
€2400 |
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ROUNDSTONE VILLAGE AND HARBOUR, COUNTY GALWAY
Ivan Sutton, (b.1944)
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed on artist's label on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Measure: 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in.
Provenance:
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Auction
Date/Lot No.:
2 March 2009/262
Published Estimate:
€2500-3500
Price Realised:
€2600 |
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VINTAGE WINE CELLAR, McCABE'S WINES, BLACKROCK
Ivan Sutton, (b.1944)
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: oil on canvas board
Measure: 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.
Provenance:
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Date/Lot No.:
2 March 2009/213
Published Estimate:
€1000-1500
Price Realised:
€1300 |
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LAUNCHING THE CURRACH AT ACHILL, COUNTY MAYO
Ivan Sutton, (b.1944)
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas board
Measure: 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in.
Provenance:
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Date/Lot No.:
6 December 2008/306
Published Estimate:
€2500-3500
Price Realised:
€2500 |
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CURRACHMEN AT ACHILL ISLAND, COUNTY MAYO
Ivan Sutton, (b.1944)
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed and signed again on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas board
Measure: 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in.
Provenance:
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Auction
Date/Lot No.:
29 September 2008/197
Published Estimate:
€2500-3500
Price Realised:
€2700 |
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GALWAY HOOKERS SAILING OFF CLARE ISLAND, COUNTY MAYO
Ivan Sutton, (b.1944)
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed and signed again on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas board
Measure: 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in.
Provenance:
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Date/Lot No.:
17 May 2008/398
Published Estimate:
€2500-3500
Price Realised:
€3000 |
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LAUNCHING THE CURRACH, ACHILL ISLAND, COUNTY MAYO
Ivan Sutton, (b.1944)
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed and signed again on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas board
Measure: 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in.
Provenance:
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Date/Lot No.:
25 February 2008/192
Published Estimate:
€3000-4000
Price Realised:
€3000 |
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GALWAY HOOKERS IN KILLARY HARBOUR, COUNTY GALWAY
Ivan Sutton, (b.1944)
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed and signed again on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Measure: 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in.
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Date/Lot No.:
15 December 2007/372
Published Estimate:
€2500-3500
Price Realised:
€2600 |
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NORTH HARBOUR, CAPE CLEAR ISLAND, COUNTY CORK
Ivan Sutton, (b.1944)
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed and signed again on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas board
Measure: 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in.
Provenance:
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Date/Lot No.:
17 September 2007/215
Published Estimate:
€2500-3500
Price Realised:
€4000 |
| Cape Clear Island, near Baltimore, West Cork, is the most southerly tip of Ireland. |
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VIEWING AT THE GALLERY
Ivan Sutton, (b.1944)
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: oil on board
Measure: 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in.
Provenance:
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Date/Lot No.:
26 May 2007/305
Published Estimate:
€4000-5000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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MOORED BOAT ON SUTTON STRAND WITH IRELAND'S EYE BEYOND, 1888
William Bingham McGuinness, RHA (1849-1928)
Signature: signed and dated lower left
Medium: watercolour over pencil heightened with white
Measure: 23 by 49cm., 9.25 by 19.2 5in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: Possibly exhibited at the Dublin Art Club, 1889, catalogue no. 80 as 'Irelands Eye, from Sutton' (£6-0-0)
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Date/Lot No.:
30 April 2007/108
Published Estimate:
€1200-1500
Price Realised:
€2600 |
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LAUNCHING THE CURRACH, INISHEER, ARAN ISLANDS
Ivan Sutton, (b.1944)
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: oil on board
Measure: 51 by 65cm., 20 by 25.5in.
Provenance:
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Date/Lot No.:
19 February 2007/189
Published Estimate:
€3,500-4,500
Price Realised:
€8500 |
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GREENE'S BOOKSHOP AND ORIEL GALLERY, CLARE STREET, DUBLIN
Ivan Sutton, (b.1944)
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: oil on board
Measure: 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in.
Provenance:
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Auction
Date/Lot No.:
9 December 2006/6
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| A copy of 'Sutton at Sixty' is included with this lot. |
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