Collection: Roderic O'Conor

Read the full story: his life, the French places he painted, and a collector's guide. Explore the Roderic O'Conor guide →

Ireland's most overlooked master — and one of its greatest.

Roderic O'Conor (1860–1940) spent almost his whole career in France. He settled at Pont-Aven in the winter of 1891–2 and met Gauguin there in 1894, but the technique that defines him came from Van Gogh, hundreds of whose paintings he had seen in Theo van Gogh's Paris apartment in 1890: thick parallel bands of unmixed colour, laid side by side, more than a decade before the Fauves. He died with close to a thousand canvases still in his studio.

Browse the full collection of Roderic O'Conor art prints — the Pont-Aven pictures, the Breton coast, the still lifes and the light at Cassis — on archival 250gsm matte paper, framed or unframed, with free worldwide shipping.

Read the story: the brawl at Concarneau, the invitation to the South Seas he refused, and the sale that finally revealed him. Roderic O'Conor: the Irishman who said no to Gauguin →

Further reading: the Irish painters in Brittany — Pont-Aven, Gauguin, and the Celtic connection that shaped modern Irish art.

Part of our full Irish Art Prints collection — over 600 works by Ireland's greatest artists.