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- Title:
Paul Mellon
- Date:
- 1924
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 28 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches (72.4 x 59.7 cm), Frame: 36 1/2 × 31 1/4 × 4 inches (92.7 × 79.4 × 10.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed, upper right: "LONDON"
Signed and dated, upper right: "ORPEN | 1924"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1983.34
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1983.34FR
- Subject Terms:
- curtain | man | portrait | shirt | white (color)
- Associated People:
- Mellon, Paul (1907–1999), philanthropist and art collector
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1238
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Paul Mellon - A Cambridge Tribute (The Fitzwilliam Museum, 2007-06-12 - 2007-09-23) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 174-175, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Matthew Hargraves, "Yale Center for British Art joins Art UK", ArtUK, 24 June 2019, Available online https://artuk.org/discover/stories/yale-center-for-british-art-joins-art-uk [Website]
P. G. Konody, Sir William Orpen: Artist & Man, London, 1932, p. 273, NJ18 Or7 K65 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Robert O'Byrne, The Mellon family's gifts to the American nation are priceless, wrote a prescient Mahonri Sharp Young in 1966, Apollo, vol. 183, May 2016, p. 114, N1 A54 +Oversize (YCBA) Also available via Art Source. [YCBA]
Duncan Robinson, Paul Mellon: a Cambridge tribute, , The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge [England], 2007, p. 8-9, 47, N5220 M552 P36 2007 (YCBA) [YCBA]