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  • ORPEN PENCIL AND WATERCOLOUR WORK MAKES £98,500

    The Howitzer in Action by Sir William Orpen sold for £98,500 at Sotheby’s.

    A pencil and watercolour war work by Sir William Orpen sold for £98,500 over an estimate of £12,000-18,000 at Sotheby’s in London.  Completed in 1917 The Howitzer in Action was from the collection of renewed arbiter of taste and London club owner Mark Birley (1930-2007).

    The contents of Mr. Birley’s London home, Thurloe Lodge in Kensington, doubled pre-sale expectations to sell for a combined total of £3,854,619 over an estimate of £1.2 million to £1.8 million.  Over 850 people registered to bid and there was fierce competition both in the room and on the phone. More than over 85% of the 496 lots sold exceeded their high estimates and only five lots were unsold.

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