The National Gallery of Ireland finally honours Roderic O’Conor, by Bridget Hourican
In late January 1956, Hôtel Drouot – one of France’s oldest and most prestigious auction houses – published the catalogue for its upcoming sale on 6 and 7 February: Collections et Ateliers de M. and Mme O’Conor. The cover image is a watercolour signed ‘for my friend O’Conor, one man of Samua, P. Gauguin, 1894’ (Fig 3) and the title page demurely announces the sale of paintings, prints, sculptures and drawings by Delacroix, Goya, Van Gogh, Munch, Manet, Pissarro, Renoir and many more (Fig 6). A flick through the pages reveals delectable images: a stunning Modigliani nude, an adorable Bonnard lithograph, a classic Cézanne Baigneurs, a quintessential Toulouse-Lautrec Au Moulin Rouge.
Angela Griffith reflects on the multifaceted practice of Alex Pentek, whose work ranges from the solidity of public art to the floating paper sculpture currently on view at the RhA
Christian Dupont compares two embroideries illustrating an enigmatic poem by WB Yeats from the collection of Burns Library at Boston College
Andy Sheridan’s nocturnal compositions of a city at rest joins the great tradition of the fl√¢neur, writes Ros Kavanagh