{"product_id":"breton-girl-reading-bretonne-lisant-roderic-oconor-art-print","title":"Breton Girl Reading (Bretonne Lisant) – Roderic O'Conor Art Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eShe is not posing for the viewer. She has forgotten the viewer exists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBreton Girl Reading (Bretonne Lisant) is one of Roderic O’Conor’s quietest paintings — a young Breton woman absorbed entirely in her book, suspended in a world of deep reds, dark blues, and warm afternoon light. The composition is intimate and almost monastic in its stillness. Nothing dramatic happens here, and that is precisely its power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePainted during O’Conor’s years in Brittany, the work carries the influence of Gauguin and the Pont-Aven School, yet the emotional restraint is unmistakably his own. The thick brushwork, the glowing colour fields, the silence of the figure turned inward — everything in the painting feels distilled down to mood and atmosphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a painting people live with for years without tiring of it. The kind of work that changes a room not by dominating it, but by slowing it down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoderic O’Conor (1860–1940) was one of Ireland’s most important modern painters and one of the few Irish artists closely associated with the Post-Impressionist movement in France. A contemporary of Gauguin and Van Gogh, his work is hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland and major international collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAvailable in 40 x 50 cm \/ 16 x 20″ as a framed or unframed archival print on 250gsm fine-art matte paper. Printed to order. Free worldwide shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buy Irish Art","offers":[{"title":"Framed Print \/ Black","offer_id":57449650127230,"sku":"9d0cfbde-8138-46da-b9c5-dd7d44aaa39e","price":179.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Framed Print \/ White","offer_id":57449650159998,"sku":"8d011125-d60b-407d-9576-61cbec0495ef","price":179.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Framed Print \/ Wood","offer_id":57449650192766,"sku":"45a75986-3d4a-4b4a-b77a-aade90c97f54","price":179.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Unframed Print \/ No Frame","offer_id":57449650225534,"sku":"0d32cf3e-d0d1-4919-af01-11088f68b4f4","price":79.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/8091\/4099\/files\/a1cd078b-1483-4b67-98b5-53defae536c6.jpg?v=1779391478","url":"https:\/\/www.buyirishart.com\/products\/breton-girl-reading-bretonne-lisant-roderic-oconor-art-print","provider":"Buy Irish Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}