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Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012)
EIGHT IRISH WRITERS [1981]
collotype lithographs; (8); (no. 86 from an edition of 100); unframed, in the original linen folio case
numbered in red on editions page; each signed and numbered in pencil in the lower margin
13.75 by 11in. (34.93 by 27.94cm)
A series of eight portraits depicting Yeats, Synge, Joyce, Beckett, Kinsella, Montague, Heaney and Stuart, ac-
companied 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.
€4,000-€6,000 (£3,150-£4,720 approx.)
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 67