WHYTE'S IMPORTANT IRISH ART MONDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2018 AT 6PM

54 Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) FIGURE 28 [WOMAN] 1959 oil on canvas signed lower left; signed, dated and with title on stretcher; also titled on Esther Robles Gallery exhibition label preserved on reverse; canvas stamp of Roberson & Co., London also on reverse 12 by 10in. (30.5 by 25.4cm) Provenance: Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles; Where purchased by a Mr Pat Gaines; Sotheby’s, Irish Sale, 16 May 2002, lot 277; Private collection; Woolley &Wallis, 8 October 2008, lot 112; Whence purchased by the present owner Exhibited: Possibly exhibited at ‘Louis le Brocquy, Paintings’, Gimpel Fils, London, November to December 1959; ’Louis le Brocquy’, Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, 23 May to 20 June 1960 Another example by le Brocquy painted in the same year as the present work was purchased from the artist through Gimpel Fils (Knapping Fund) by the Tate [Woman 1959, their reference T00316]. In a statement of March 1958 printed in the Gimpel Fils catalogue for his show there the following year the artist wrote: “Towards the end of 1955 I stopped making such linear compositions as A Family, 1951 [National Gallery of Ireland, NGI.4709 and reproduced in the catalogue of his 1966-1967 retrospective exhibition, no. 23], in which the image is formalised within defined space, and started gradually to make indefinite white paintings in which I tried (and still try) to produce a substantial identity of surface and image. These last paintings depend for their reality, I think, on the nature and implication of their surface; a monotonous surface, but a matrix within which the central image may be realised and held”. The artist’s ‘White Period’ or ‘Presences’ dates roughly to c.1956-1966. €12,000-€ 15,000 (£10,620-£13,270 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 54