Those scarlet headscarves catch the light the way you remember from stories told at the kitchen table.
Walter Osborne RHA painted this scene at Roundstone harbour in 1898 — women in vivid scarlet headscarves moving through a Connemara market day, the light catching the colour of their work and their presence. The painting sold from the Royal Academy exhibition the year it was made, and at Christie's London in 2021 it achieved £450,000 — 80% above estimate. It is hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland.
Osborne (1859–1903) was one of Ireland's finest painters. Born in Dublin, trained in Antwerp and Brittany, he came back to Ireland and found his subject in the everyday life of the people around him — their faces, their labour, their colour. By 1898 his brushwork had loosened and his palette had opened up. This painting is that maturity fully arrived.
Each print is produced at 40×50 cm (16×20″) on heavyweight archival matte paper using archival inks — fade-resistant, colour-verified against the original. Available framed in oak, ash or black hardwood, or unframed. FSC-certified frames, ready to hang.
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