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Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012)
HEAD (WITH SPECTACLES), 1971
oil on canvas laid on board
signed and dated on reverse; inscribed in artist’s hand with
opus number [287] and title [HEAD] on reverse; with Dawson
Gallery exhibition and framing labels on reverse
18 by 15in. (46 by 38cm)
Provenance:
Dawson Gallery, Dublin;
Where purchased by Harold Davis Esq;
Private collection
Exhibited:
Dawson Gallery, Dublin 19 October- 19 November 1971,
catalogue no. 2
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul, 9 March- 8 April 1973;
Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, 1-26 October 1974;
Galerie la Bussola, Turin, November 1974
‘These peering heads, whose open mouths make dark apertures in the
surface of the painting, stare aghast from within their own
predicament...Since the outbreak of civil warfare in the North of Ireland
in 1969, and in the context of that war, le Brocquy’s painting of the
anguished individual reaches an intensity of expression that carried his
work onto an even more powerful level of art.’
1
We are grateful to the artist’s son, Pierre le Brocquy, for his assistance in
cataloguing this work.
1
Walker, Dorothy,
Louis le Brocquy
, Dublin:Ward River Press 1981; London:
Hodder & Stoughton 1982, p. 53
€
25,000-
€
35,000 (£20,000-£28,000 approx.)