An early pastel of Grace Orpen — painted before the cliffs, before the war, before everything.
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Orpen painted Grace many times. This is one of the earliest — a pastel study made around 1901, when they were both young and he was still finding his way.
She is looking slightly upward, eyes almost closed, completely unguarded. This is not a posed portrait. It is a painter studying someone he knows completely, working quickly in pastel on a dark ground, not trying to impress anyone. The result is one of the most quietly affecting things Orpen ever made.
If you know the later painting — Grace on the cliffs above Dublin Bay, wind in her scarf, the sea behind her — this is where that story begins. Same woman, eight years earlier, in a studio, perfectly still.
This archival giclée print is made on heavyweight fine art paper with fade-resistant inks, built to last.
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