Sunlight – William Orpen Art Print

National Gallery of Ireland Collection.

Orpen painted Sunlight in his London studio around 1925. A woman sits on a floral sofa in a shaft of afternoon light, lifting her stocking — a green roll garter, fashionable in the 1920s, on her arm. The light falls across her skin, the upholstery, the curtain, and the painting on the wall behind her.

That painting is the Seine at Argenteuil by Monet. Orpen owned it. He had bought it years earlier and it hung in his studio — a reminder of where modern painting had come from, present in the background of his own work like a quiet acknowledgement.

Sunlight is not a grand statement. It is a painter in his late forties, at the end of a career that had taken him from Dublin to the Slade to the Western Front to Versailles, finding something worth painting in a woman on a sofa on an ordinary afternoon. The light does the rest.

Available in two sizes — 30x40 cm / 12x16″ and 60x80 cm / 24x32″ — as an archival giclée print on heavyweight fine art paper with fade-resistant inks, built to last.

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