‘Flipped’ Orpen portrait makes tidy profit for vendor just four months later
A US-based vendor cashed in when a portrait by Sir William Orpen (1878-1931) of his lover Evelyn St George sold at Sotheby’s for more than double the amount it had fetched less than four months earlier at a New Jersey auction.
The painting of the wealthy American millionairess emerged at Nye & Company of Bloomfield, New…