Roderic O'Conor (1860-1940), Sentier à travers les Arbres (1893)

Roderic O'Conor is perhaps Ireland's most celebrated and highy regarded impressionist artist. Best known as a painter, he was also a masterful and accomplished draughtsmen and etcher. His works feature in most major collections worldwide.

The etching shows a path through windblown trees, a perfect subject for O'Conor to convey movement and immediacy. O'Conor was born in Co Roscommon and studied in Dublin at the Metropolitan School of Art and Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin.  O'Conor spent much of his life in France. This plate was dated 1893,and was printed as a limited edition in 1981. Some years after his death in 1940, a number of etching plates were found in his studio.  The original plate for this print was sold at the Hotel Drouot, Paris on 17 November 1975 (lot 172 no. 1) as Chemin sous bois. Later printed as a restrike by Paul Prouté in 1981, in an edition of 100 with the title Sentier à travers les arbres (Path through the trees).

Etching on cream wove paper.  Image dimensions: 30 x 30.5cm. Newly framed with non-reflective UV resistant glass and acid-free mount. Provenance: Paul Prouté, Gravures et Dessins, Rue de Seine and Rue Clément, Paris. (Private collection, France)

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