SIR WILLIAM ORPEN

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2540, 3 October 1931, Page 5

SIR WILLIAM ORPEN

ONE OF THE WORLD S REST A VERSATILE ARTIST (Aust. and N.Z. Cable.) Rugby, Opt. 2. The late Sir William Orpen was one of the most versatile and provocative artists of his generation, some of his most brilliant work was .l.me as <uii< ial artist on the Western Front, while afterwards lie painted a picture of tin- Versailles Conference. Almost all the most famous Statesmen and soldiers in the-world sat for him. Many of his later pictures groused much controversy.