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1913 · Oil paint on canvas
support: 610 x 502 mm
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Roderic O'Conor
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DrawingImpressionismPost-ImpressionismContemporary
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None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
9
Works in Collection
15
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Publications Referenced
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- • Impressionism
- • Post-Impressionism
- • Contemporary
- • Symbolism
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Gaugin and his Circle in Brittany: The Prints of the Pont-Aven School
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1987
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Recent European Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1956–1957
About
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Roderic O'Conor was an Irish painter whose Post-Impressionist landscapes and figure studies deploy vivid colour and expressive brushwork across oils executed in Brittany and southern France. His work combines structured spatial depth with a decorative surface energy characteristic of Symbolist painting, responding directly to developments in French modernism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. O'Conor sustained a chromatic intensity throughout his career that distinguishes his practice within the broader Post-Impressionist movement.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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