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75 Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) PROCESSIONWITH LILLIES I, 1991 lithograph on handmade Japan paper; (no. 62 from an edition on 75) signed and numbered lower right 22 by 30in. (55.9 by 76.2cm) A 1939 news clipping was to inspire Louis le Brocquy to create a painting of children, entitled Procession With Lilies, over twenty years later in 1962 and a series of paintings in 1984-1992 entitled Procession. Dorothy Walker 1 notes: ‘The image of these jeunes filles en fleur (et aux fleurs) has been simmering in the artist’s mind since 1939 when a friend in Dublin sent him, to France where he was then living, a newspaper cutting from the Evening Herald showing a group of young girls in white First Communion dresses, coming around a corner, laughing and carrying white lilies. The caption to the photograph was “Schoolgirls returning from Church after the blessing of the Lilies on the Feast of St Anthony.” Louis le Brocquy writes 2 “These paintings are centrally concerned with what I might describe as the mystery of time” and “In the case of the Procession With Lilies, to do with an instant in an event which occurred years ago within a succession of present moments”. 1. Dorothy Walker, Louis le Brocquy, Ward River Press, Dublin 1981. 2. In a letter to Peter Murray, September 2003. €1500-€2000 (£1,320-£1,750 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 75