WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 2 December 2019

158 137 Melanie le Brocquy HRHA (1919-2018) MOTHER AND CHILD bronze on black marble base; (no. 5 from an edition of 6) signed with initials and numbered 10 by 6.25 by 5in. (25.4 by 15.9 by 12.7cm) Dimensions of base: 2 by 8 by 7in. Born in Dublin in 1919, Melanie Stewart, née le Brocquy, daughter of Albert and Sybil le Brocquy and sister to the famous Irish artist Louis (1916-2012), attended the National College of Art before continu- ing her studies at Geneva’s École des Beaux-Arts. She returned to Ireland where she studied at the RHA School from 1937 to 1942. From 1938 on she was a regular exhibitor at the RHA Annual Exhibition. In 1981, le Brocquy was one of the founding memberds of Aosdána. She was made an Honorary Member of the RHA in 1989 and her work was celebrated in a retrospective at the RHA in 1999. Melanie le Broc- quy died on June 22 2018, in her 99th year, her husband, Stanley Stewart, Professor of Bacteriology and Preventive Medicine at Trinity College Dublin (1952-1975), having predeased her. €2,000-€3,000 (£1,720-£2,590 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 137