Robert O'Rorke Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Robert O'Rorke Art Value Price Guide

Mar. 05, 2024
Â§ ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945)
Est: £300 - £500
Â§ ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945) ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945) The War Correspondent signed and dated 'R.A. O'Rorke '68' (lower right) oil, chalk, pen & ink with collage elements 53.7 x 35.5 cm. (21 1/8 x 14 in.)
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Mar. 05, 2024
Â§ ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945)
Est: £300 - £500
Â§ ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945) ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945) Self-Portrait with Images signed and dated 'R.A. O'Rorke '68' (lower right) mixed media and collage 72 x 44 cm. (28 3/8 x 17 1/4 in.)
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Aug. 23, 2023
Â§ ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945) Preview: Barley Mow Centre
Est: £300 - £500
Â§ ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945) Preview: Barley Mow Centre ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945) After Titians Bachus & Ariade signed 'R. O'Rorke' (lower right) oil on canvas 76.2 x 101.6 cm. (30 x 40 in.) ARR
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Aug. 23, 2023
Â§ ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945) Preview: Barley Mow Centre
Est: £200 - £400
Â§ ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945) Preview: Barley Mow Centre ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945) London pier scene signed 'R. O'Rorke' 34 x 41.7 cm. (13 3/8 x 16 1/4 in.) ARR
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Aug. 23, 2023
Â§ ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945) Preview: Barley Mow Centre
Est: £400 - £600
Â§ ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945) Preview: Barley Mow Centre ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945) Crossing the Queensborough signed 'R. O'Rorke' (lower right) acrylic on canvas 76.5 x 111.5 cm. (26 1/2 x 40 in.) ARR
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Apr. 14, 2023
λ ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH B. 1945), THE DANCE NO. 3
Est: £100 - £200
λ ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH B. 1945)THE DANCE NO. 3GouacheSigned and dated '93 (lower right), further signed, dated and inscribed as titled (on a label on the reverse)33 x 47cm (12 x 18½ in.)Provenance: The Rowse CollectionPlease note measurements do not include the frame unless otherwise stated.
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Dec. 13, 2022
Â§ ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945)
Est: £500 - £700
Â§ ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945) ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945) Untitled 10 oil on canvas 114.5 x 153.5 cm. (45 1/8 x 60 1/2 in.) ARR
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Dec. 13, 2022
Â§ ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945)
Est: £200 - £400
Â§ ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945) ROBERT O'RORKE (BRITISH, b.1945) Sunset, Blackfriars Bridge oil on board 28 x 33 cm. (11 x 13 in.) ARR
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Nov. 30, 2021
ROBERT O'RORKE (B. 1945)
Est: £400 - £600
ROBERT O'RORKE (B. 1945) ROBERT O'RORKE (B. 1945) Cretian Sunrise signed, inscribed and dated CRETAN SUNRISE ROBERT O'RORKE 1967 (on stretcher) oil on canvas, unframed 77.5 123 cm (30 1/2 x 48 1/2 in)
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Nov. 30, 2021
ROBERT O'RORKE (B. 1945`)
Est: £300 - £500
ROBERT O'RORKE (B. 1945`) ROBERT O'RORKE (B. 1945) The Skier oil on board signed and titled The Skier Robert O'Rorke (back of board) 62.1 x 95 cm (24 1/2 x 37 1/2)
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Jul. 08, 2021
Â§ ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945)
Est: £200 - £300
Â§ ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945) ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945) Rush Hour oil and collage on paper 43.5 x 62.5 cm (17 x 24 3/4 in)
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Jul. 08, 2021
ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945)
Est: £300 - £500
ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945) ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945) Ruby Tuesday signed Robert O'Rorke (on an artist label on the reverse) acrylic and collage on board 45.5 x 61 cm (18 x 24 in)
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Jul. 08, 2021
ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945)
Est: £300 - £500
ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945) ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945) Galway signed ROBERT O'RORKE (on the canvas overlap) oil on canvas 50.5 x 86.5 cm (20 x 34 in) Painted in 1965 This work is based on a painting the artist completed in the West coast of Ireland. During my second year at art school, two friends and I decided to drive to Ireland and paint the local views which we would then sell to the local hotels. The trip was a disaster. The minivan we were sleeping in continually broke down, it poured with rain most of the time (I was working in acrylic). In theory, we were camping but there was no way we could light a fire, so we lived on tins of cold beans, and the hotels we visited were already filled with views by other artists Robert O'Rorke We are grateful to Mr O'Rorke for the assistance in cataloguing this piece
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Apr. 22, 2020
ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945)
Est: £600 - £800
ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945) A - from the series FROMMEDEEARTH (i) signed, titled and dated 1972 (on the artist's label attached to the reserve) (ii) signed, titled and dated 1973 (on the artist's label attached to the reverse) ink, pastel, gouache and collage on paper 49.5 x 36.2 cm (19 1/2 x 14 1/4 in) (2) 'The original idea for this series was fifteen random letters – FROAMMEDEEARHTH – suggested by Robert Rauschenberg, which you could combine in different ways to make different meanings. From this idea I made fifteen collages, each containing one of the letters.' Robert O'Rorke We are grateful to Mr O'Rorke for the assistance in cataloguing this lot
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Apr. 22, 2020
ROBERT O'RORKE (B. 1945)
Est: £400 - £600
ROBERT O'RORKE (B. 1945) Summer signed, titled and dated ROBERT O'RORKE/SUMMER/1968 (on a label attached to the reverse) oil on canvas 61 x 76 cm (24 x 30 in) We are grateful to Mr O'Rorke for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.
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Dec. 03, 2019
ROBERT O'RORKE (B. 1945)
Est: £500 - £700
ROBERT O'RORKE (B. 1945) A signed, inscribed and dated 'ROBERT O'RORKE/1973 'A' collage/from the series FROMM/EDEEARHTH' (on a label attached to the reverse) ink, pastel, gouache and collage on paper 49.5 x 36.2 cm (19 1/2 x 14 1/4 in) 'The original idea for this series was fifteen random letters – FROAMMEDEEARHTH – suggested by Robert Rauschenberg, which you could combine in different ways to make different meanings. From this idea I made fifteen collages, each containing one of the letters.' Robert O'Rorke We are grateful to Mr O'Rorke for the assistance in cataloguing this lot
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Dec. 12, 2018
ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945)
Est: £800 - £1,200
ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945) By night signed, inscribed and dated 'ROBERT O'RORKE BY NIGHT 1969' (on the canvas overlap) oil on canvas 60 3/4 X 60 in. (154.3 x 152.5 cm.) Provenance: Private collection, UK. We are grateful to Robert O'Rorke for the assistance in cataloguing this work. 'Back in the sixties many teenagers like John Lennon, Pete Townsend, Eric Clapton and Ronnie Wood initially went from school to art school before finding fame in pop music. At that time pop music and pop art were both evolving together and while ideas from art schools fed into the world of music, inspiration from rock musicians fed back into the visual arts. Peter Blake, besides painting many images of pop idols, also designed the famous Sergeant Pepper album cover. Richard Hamilton likewise made prints of Mick Jagger and Robert Frazer and was commissioned to design the Beetles' white album cover. The stimulus for By Night comes from the last track of The Doors’ first album The End. Written by Jim Morrison after he split up from his girlfriend, it evolved over a period of time into something darker and more ambiguous. By Night also evolved over a period of time with a number of preliminary studies and changes. The final image encompasses a background of diagonal yellow and black stripes on the right with a girl’s legs fleeing from something unseen. On the left an African mask looms out of an area of reddish brown paint. The juxtaposition of the two images and the disparity of the two sides was designed to create a feeling of dislocation and unease similar to the music that inspired the piece.
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Dec. 04, 2018
Robert O'Rorke (British, born 1945) Cretan Sunrise (unframed)
Est: £800 - £1,200
Robert O'Rorke (British, born 1945) Cretan Sunrise signed, titled and dated 'CRETAN SUNRISE ROBERT O'RORKE 1967' (on stretcher bar)oil on canvas76.5 x 122cm (30 1/8 x 48 1/16in).(unframed)
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Jul. 10, 2018
Robert O'Rorke (British, born 1945) Untitled 2
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
Robert O'Rorke (British, born 1945) Untitled 2 signed 'ROBERT O'RORKE' (on canvas overlap)acrylic on canvas121.5 x 121.5cm (47 13/16 x 47 13/16in).Painted in 1971
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Jul. 10, 2018
Robert O'Rorke (British, born 1945) Untitled 1 81 x 193cm (31 7/8 x 76in). (overall)
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
Robert O'Rorke (British, born 1945) Untitled 1 signed 'ROBERT O'RORKE' (on canvas overlap)acrylic on three canvases81 x 193cm (31 7/8 x 76in). (overall)Painted in 1970 The present work and lot 199 were both painted following the Artist's graduation from the Royal College of Art in 1969, where he had absorbed the influences of British and American pop artists including Hockney, Kitaj and Peter Blake (his tutor at the RCA), as well as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Upon graduating O'Rorke moved to a shared studio at St Katharine Docks, a warehouse next to the Tower of London which Bridget Riley and Peter Sedgley had taken a short lease on. Focusing only on form, colour and gestural brushwork, the two lots offered here are an exuberant example of the Artist's work in the early 1970s.
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Jun. 28, 2018
ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945)
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945) Lift off signed and inscribed 'LIFT OFF ROBERT O'RORKE' (on the canvas overlap) oil on canvas 45 x 61 in. (114.3 x 155 cm.) We are grateful to the artist for the assistance in cataloguing this lot. 'I painted Lift Off in 1973 when space exploration was an exciting topic providing new images for the artist of rockets launching and dramatic views of the earth from the moon. But the astronaut is also linked to a dancing figure on the left who is also taking off with energy and movement, and I wanted the painting to combine these two ideas in an image of vitality and excitement.' Robert O'Rorke
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Jun. 28, 2018
ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945)
Est: £800 - £1,200
ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945) Untitled signed 'ROBERT O'RORKE' (on the reverse) oil on board 18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm.)
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Apr. 10, 2018
ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945) Untitled III signed 'O'RORKE' (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 53 3/4 x 53 3/4 in. (136.7 x 136.7 cm.) Provenance: Private collection, UK. ‘As a student my paintings had used multiple images and different visual
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945) Untitled III signed 'O'RORKE' (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 53 3/4 x 53 3/4 in. (136.7 x 136.7 cm.) Provenance: Private collection, UK. ‘As a student my paintings had used multiple images and different visual conventions exploring the whole range of what paint can communicate. But I found this disparate imagery tended to dictate the forms and colours, so I decided to remove any figurative references and concentrate on trying to make completely abstract paintings. In the early seventies a number of artists calling themselves Post-painterly abstractionists or colour field painters emerged like John Hoyland, John Golding and Jules Olitski, and for a while the influence of their work fed into mine. It was in this context that I painted Untitled III in about 1971.’ We are grateful to the artist for the assistance in cataloguing this lot.
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Apr. 10, 2018
ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945) Sweet Dreams signed and inscribed 'O'RORKE ROBERT A./''SWEET DREAMS''' (on a label attached to the reverse) oil, gouache and collage on two boards 27 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (69.5 x 41.7 cm.) Provenance: Private collection, UK.
Est: £800 - £1,200
ROBERT O'RORKE (B.1945) Sweet Dreams signed and inscribed 'O'RORKE ROBERT A./''SWEET DREAMS''' (on a label attached to the reverse) oil, gouache and collage on two boards 27 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (69.5 x 41.7 cm.) Provenance: Private collection, UK. Upon graduating the Royal College of Art in 1969, O’Rorke rented a large studio in St Katherine’s Docks, a huge warehouse near the Tower of London, which Bridget Riley had taken over on short lease. It was the first artist-run studio in London providing spaces for over hundred artists. ‘After about eighteen months we had to move and some of us went to an old school in Hackney but it was a long way from where I was living and I subsequently found a large warehouse space in Chelsea which was much nearer my house. I spent three years working there and continued with the large abstract paintings but also did a lot of smaller collages, one of which was Sweet Dreams which I painted in about 1972. At the time I was still interested in exploring the contrast between figurative imagery and paint used just as paint and the transition between these two conventions.’ We are grateful to the artist for the assistance in cataloguing this lot.
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