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IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 26 SEPTEMBER 2016 AT 6PM
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Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012)
EIGHT IRISHWRITERS [1981]
collotype lithographs; (8); (no. 12 from the ‘Hors de Commerce’ edition of 25); unframed, in the original
linen folio case
inscribed [To Francis Stuart, ‘with deep admiration and best wishes’, Louis le Brocquy, XI 1981] on title
page; numbered in red on editions page; each signed and numbered in pencil in the lower margin
13¾ x 11in. (34.93 x 27.94cm)
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.
Francis Stewart (1902-2000), whose portrait is included and to whom the artist pesonally inscribed this
lot, was an Irish writer who spent much of the war years, 1939-1945, in Germany. His first wife was Iseult
Gonne, Maud Gonne MacBride’s daughter. He was elected a Saoi of Aosdána in 1996. He published over
30 works between 1923 and 1996.
One hundred and twenty-five copies of this portfolio were produced. Those numbered H. C. (hors de
commerce) 1-25 were for museum, library and private circulation.
€6000-€8000 (£5130-£6840 approx.)
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