WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART MONDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2019 AT 6PM

62 Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) “...AND DISAPPEAREDWITH A CURIOUS PERFUME AND MOST MELODIOUS TWANG.” pen and ink with gouache over pencil signed lower left; with poem inscribed in the right-hand margin; with poem printed and affixed verso 4.50 by 6.75in. (11.4 by 17.1cm) Provenance: Private Collector Gallery, Cork; Private collection; Whyte’s, 28 November 2011, lot 39; Private collection Poem reads, ”Anno 1670, not far from Cirencester, was an apparition; being demanded whether a good spirit or a bad? returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious perfume and most melodious twang. Mr. W. Lilly believes it was a fairy.” John Aubery, Apparition, Miscellanies (1696) John Aubery (1626-1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. Miscellanies was a collection of twenty-one short chapters on supernatural phenomena and the occult. €2500-€3500 (£2,270-£3,180 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 62