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William Orpen: An illustrated letter to Hugh Lane regarding Homage to Manet   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
William Orpen  (1878–1931)  wikidata:Q922483
 
William Orpen
Alternative names
Orpen, Sir William Newenham Montague, Gulielmus Orpen
Description Irish painter and visual artist
Date of birth/death 27 November 1878 Edit this at Wikidata 29 September 1931 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Stillorgan, County Dublin London
Work location
London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q922483
Title
An illustrated letter to Hugh Lane regarding Homage to Manet
Date around December 1906 or January 1907
Medium pencil on paper
medium QS:P186,Q14674;P186,Q11472,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 24.8 cm (9.7 in); width: 20.3 cm (7.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,24.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,20.3U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Inscriptions 8 Bolton Gardens South/My dear Lane - not a word/from you - yet I'm working/all day forwarding letters -/Did you get the telegram right?/Ive started the - ode to Manet/I wish you were here just/to touch the sitters on the/subject - the profile I thought/of were Lane - Moore - Sargent/Steer - McColl - Tonks. - But of/course nothing could be done by/letter by you the only chance/is for you to see them - I/cannot myself as it would/be a smack in the eye to me/if they refused - and yet I would/not have them on any account/if it bored them -/another set rather nice to paint/would be Lane - John - Max -/Sickert Nicholson Pryde/What think you? - I sold the/Nude on the private view day/but there have been very/damning notices of the new/English as a whole -/Tell Alabaster I still like/him although he behaved like/a brute - he gives me no/word of Dublin. Though he/knows how I love its very/paving stones even the old/gas lamps of Kildare St-/I hear you tracked him to/Richards - I'm sorry the latter/has been at it again Talking/too much I suppose - How's your strange cousin?-/the one who has a photograph of his wife and/child next his heart - yet never goes near them/I went to Shaws new play yesterday - its very good/and rotten - when you see it you will understand/what I mean. Yours Don't think of the floor
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