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Visible through the trees in the background of this landscape is a seventeenth-century farmhouse used as a studio by many artists, including Gauguin, who had rented the building in 1889, and O’Conor, who worked there in 1893-1894. O’Conor employs a sequence of parallel ‘screens’ of flowers and shrubbery to lead the eye into the picture, while allowing a vibrant palette of green, pink and red, and typically fluid brushwork to bring the lush summer landscape to life. Unlike his many Antwerp - and Paris- trained compatriots, who embraced Naturalism and on their return to Ireland applied it to Irish subjects, O’Conor was a true colourist with avant-garde sensibilities, who remained in France for the rest of his life.
March 2016
Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London, 1971
Aspects of Irish Art, a Loan Exhibition; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, 27 January - 3 March 1974; Toledo Museum of Arts, Toledo, Ohio, 17 March - 14 April 1974; St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, Missouri, 3 May - 9 June 1974
Post-Impressionism, Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979-1980
The Irish Impressionists: Irish Artists in France and Belgium 1850-1914, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1984-1985
Roderic O'Conor, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 12 September - 3 November 1985; Ulster Museum, Belfast, 15 November 1985 - 18 January 1986; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 30 January - 8 March 1986; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 14 March - 10 May 1986
Onlookers in France: Irish Realist and Impressionist Painters, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, 1 October - 22 November 1993
Von Poussin bis Monet. Die Farben Frankreichs, The Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, 22 March - 6 September 2015; Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, 10 October 2015 - 17 January 2016