Red Rocks and Sea by Roderic O’Conor at Sotheby’s. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS MADE £266,500
A rediscovered seascape by Roderic O’Conor is among the highlights at Sotheby’s sale of British and Irish art in London on May 23. A total of 30 Irish artworks are expected to bring in around one million euro in this sale.
Painted near Pont-Aven in 1898 Red Rocks and Sea is one of the largest of a series of seascapes executed by O’Conor in the 1890’s. It was painted at Le Pouldu, the coastal outpost of the Pont-Aven school of artists on the western tip of Brittany at Finistere. It has had only two owners and this is the first appearance at auction of this work. Last purchased at a London exhibition in 1961 it is now estimated at £200,000-300,000. Highlights will be on view at the Waterfront Hall, Belfast on May 9-10 and at Sotheby’s, Molesworth St., Dublin on May 11 and 12.