Roderic O'Conor ( eng. Roderic O'Conor ; October 17, 1860 , Milltown, Castellplanquet (eng.) , County Roscommon , Ireland - March 18, 1940 , Nueil-sur-Layon (fr.) , Maine-et-Loire , France ), Irish painter - landscape painter of the late XIX - first half of the XX century , owned by the Pont-Aven school . During the formation of the post-impressionist pictorial worldview in European art (second half of the 80s - 90s ) he worked in France and was at the center of the events of the art world of those years.
| Roderick O'Conor | |
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![Self portrait, 1928 Oil on wood [1]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Self_portrait_o_conor.jpg/267px-Self_portrait_o_conor.jpg) Self portrait, 1928 Oil on wood [2] | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Roscommon (county) , Ireland |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Nuits-sur-Layon (fr.) Maine-et-Loire Department, France |
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| Genre | painter landscape painter , portrait painter , engraver |
| Study | Metropolitan School of Art (Eng.) , ( Dublin ); Royal Iberian Academy (English) , ( Dublin ); Amplefort College (Eng.) , ( North Yorkshire , England ); Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Eng.) , ( Antwerp ), Belgium |
| Style | post-impressionism expressionism |
Artist Biography
Roderick O'Conor was born on October 17, 1860 in Milltown, Castellplanquet (Eng.) , In the county of Roscommon in the central part of the island , according to the current administrative division of the Western region (Eng.) Of Ireland . He studied painting like no one else: at the Metropolitan School of Art (English) , at the Royal Iberian Academy (English) , (both in Dublin ); Amplefort College (Eng.) in ( Yorkshire , England ); and finally, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Engl.) ( Antwerp ) [5] .
Events
Oil on Canvas 72 × 93 cm. National Gallery of Ireland , Dublin
The development of his own artistic method, the mature work of Roderick O'Conor, all the key events related to painting - almost without a trace - took place with him during his years in France (which is almost 50 years old). For example, O'Conor’s found later, and cultivated for many years, the technique of separate brushstroke with the adjacent dense masses of contrasting saturated colors, is largely due to the discoveries of the divisionists and Vincent Van Gogh .
Roderick O'Conor arrived in Paris in 1886. [6] The period from 1886 to 1890 was a time of experiments and discoveries for O'Conor. In 1892, he went to the Breton Pont-Aven to work with young artists who united around the head of the Pont-Aven School , Paul Gauguin .
From 1891 to 1904, O'Conor lived and worked mainly in Brittany . In the fall of 1893, the death of his father led him to return to Ireland. As the only male heir, he took possession of a significant amount of real estate. In the new circumstances, the constant rent collected from tenants, allowed not to depend on the sale of painting. From 1904 to 1933, Roderick O'Conor mostly lives and works in Paris . From 1934 until his death in 1940 , he was in Nuits-sur-Layon (fr.) [7] .
Henrietta “Renee” Enta
Canvas, oil
They have known each other since at least 1916 , when she was twenty-two and he was fifty-six. Renée Honta was the companion and muse of O'Conor, and from 1934 (when he was over seventy) became an official wife. As art critic Clive Bell (Eng.) (1881-1964) said, “she was a charming and intelligent lady who agreed to brighten up the loneliness of an aging artist” [8] [9] .
Roderick O'Conor died in Nuits-sur-Layon (fr.) , Department of Maine and Loire in France on March 18, 1940 .
Also
Roderick O'Conor's nephew, Patrick O'Connor (1909-1997), was a painter and sculptor [10] [11] .
In March 2011, the work of Roderick O'Conor Landscape Cassis (oil on canvas 65.5 × 55 cm), painted by him in the south of France in 1913 , was sold at Sotheby's for £ 337,250 (€ 383,993), significantly higher than the estimate [12] .
Relations with Somerset Maugham
At the beginning of the twentieth century, O'Conor was a member of a group of artists, writers and intellectuals who are regulars at Chat Blanc restaurant in the rue d'Odesa near Montparnasse Train Station in Paris. Among others, there was a young Somerset Maugham . O'Conor "immediately disliked Maugham, who later recalled that his presence at the table seemed to annoy the Irish, and he only had to make some remark so that O'Conor attacked him." [13]
Maugham took revenge on O'Conor by writing it as the basis for two fictional characters: O'Brien in The Magician (1908) and Clutton in The Burden of Human Passion (1915). Both portraits are unflattering: O'Brien - “a loser whose soul is distorted by bitterness so that not forgiving the successes of others, he pounces on any talented artist”, while Clutton is “a sardonic artist who is most cheerful when he can find a victim for his sarcasm. " [14] However, it was through O'Conor that Maugham first became interested in Gauguin (Maugham traveled to Tahiti and based his novel “The Moon and the Penny” (1919) on the life of Gauguin). [15]
Literature
- O'Conor, Roderic; Benington, Jonathan. Roderic O'Conor: a biography with a catalog of his works . - Irish Academic Press Ltd., 1992. - 256 p. - (Art and Architecture). - ISBN 0716524929 .
- Campbell, Julian. The Irish Impressionists, Irish Artists in France and Belgium 1850-1914. - Dublin: National Gallery of Ireland, 1984. - ISBN 0903162172 .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ Roderick O \\ 'Conor
- ↑ 1 2 Benezit Dictionary of Artists - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ It should be noted that:
- studied in Antwerp O'Conor among young Dublin artists: Richard Moynen , Henry Allan ; and:
- Van Gogh visited the drawing classes of the Antwerp Academy , even if it hadn’t finished the course, for a short time in the winter of 1885-1886 .
- ↑ It is noteworthy that 1886 is the year of the last exhibition of the impressionist group; Sera first showed it on Sunday on Grand Jatt Island , an event that became a kind of watershed between the shallow current of the Impressionist plein air school and the multi-component movement of post-impressionism , which is gaining strength.
- ↑ Roscommon Twinnings: Nueil-sur-Layon / Roderic O'Conor . Roscommon.ie (July 10, 2012). Date of contact May 21, 2015. (unavailable link)
- ↑ Crowly, Teresa O'Conor letters: Renée and the “Damned Duveens” unopened (link not available) . Date of treatment May 21, 2015. Archived May 18, 2015.
- ↑ In the 1919 novel by William Somerset Maugham (1874–1965), Moon and Pennile , although based largely on the storyline of Paul Gauguin’s biography, many of Strickland’s personality traits are attributed to Roderick O'Conor, with whom the writer had long-standing friendships. .
- ↑ O'CONNOR Patrick 1909-1997 . Artist Biographies. Date of treatment October 17, 2016.
- ↑ Portrait of Jack Butler Yeats (1871–1957) by Patrick O'Connor (link not available) . BBC Date of treatment October 17, 2016. Archived June 21, 2013.
- ↑ Landscape, Cassis by Roderic O'Conor . Sotheby's (March 29, 2011). Date of treatment October 17, 2016.
- ↑ Robert Calder, Willie: the life of W. Somerset Maugham , p. 90
- ↑ Robert Calder, Willie: the life of W. Somerset Maugham , p. 90
- ↑ Robert Calder, Willie: the life of W. Somerset Maugham , p. 136
Links
- VIDEO (3 min. 30 sec.): Pictures of O'Conor at the Whyte's Irish Art auction
- 23 paintings by Roderick O'Conor on the BBC website
- Roderick O'Conor at the Tate Gallery website
- Tombstone at the grave of Roderick O'Conor. Nuits-sur-Layon (fr.) , Department of Maine and Loire , region of Pays de la Loire , France