54
WHYTES
SINCE 1783
,
80
Louis le Brocquy
HRHA
(1916-2012)
HEADS AND LEMONS [SIX
AQUATINTS] 1981
aquatints on Arches paper;
(each an edition of 75)
each signed and
numbered in pencil lower
left
26 by 19.75in. (66.04 by
50.17cm)
Sheet size given.
Printed in an edition of 75 by
Atelier Maeght, St. Paul, France,
titles for each include:
Head and Handprint
(no. 30
from 75),
Mycenean Gold Mask
(29/75),
Image in Darkness
(25/75),
Head on a Red Ground
(35/75),
Lemon
(25/75),
No
Lemon
(23/75).
€
5,000-
€
7,000
(£4,270-£5,980 approx.)
81
Louis le Brocquy HRHA
(1916-2012)
EIGHT IRISH WRITERS [1981]
collotype lithographs; (8); (nos. 81 from an
edition of 100); (unframed, in the original linen
folio case)
each signed and numbered in the lower
margin
13.75 by 11.50in. (34.93 by 29.21cm)
A series of eight portraits depicting Yeats, Synge,
Joyce, Beckett, Kinsella, Montague, Heaney and
Stuart, accompanied by a poem by each respective
author, a biographical note by Andrew Carpenter,
and a preface by the late Seamus Heaney.The eight
charcoal drawings were printed by collotype
lithography at the Imprimerie Arte, Adrien Maeght,
Paris, where the text was also printed. Presented in
the original linen cased portfolio box made in Dublin
by John F. Newman and Sons Ltd.With original
invitation to private view of the exhibition at the
Taylor Galleries, Dublin on 17 November that year.
€
5,000-
€
7,000 (£4,270-£5,980 approx.)
