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Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961, British, William Orpen Levitating, 1897 to 1900
- Title:
William Orpen Levitating
- Date:
- 1897 to 1900
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 25 1/2 x 32 1/2in. (64.8 x 82.5cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
- Copyright Status:
- © Estate of the Artist
- Accession Number:
- B2009.9.5
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B2009.9.5FR
- Subject Terms:
- chair | clouds | costume | dinner | dress | food | genre subject | hat | meal | neckwear | people | sky | suit, pants | table | tea | teapot | trousers | waistcoat | walking-sticks
- Access:
- Not on view
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1584
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Augustus John and William Orpen were constant companions while attending the Slade School of Art in London in the late 1890s, but their paths separated in later years as Orpen achieved fame in the 1920s for his highly sought after society portraits (an example is shown nearby). John’s satirical depiction of the fashionably dressed Orpen floating high above a tea table seated with dour, blackclad figures dates to their years at the Slade and suggests the “light play,” as John described it, that characterized the friends’ behavior during their bohemian student days. Gallery label for A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Edwardian Opulence (Yale Center for British Art, 2013-02-28 - 2013-06-02) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Angus Trumble, Edwardian opulence, British art at the dawn of the twentieth century , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2013, p. 281, cat. no. 45, N6768 .E39 2013 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
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