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Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012)
Estimate:
€12,000 - €15,000
Passed
Live Auction
Important Irish Art - 26 November 2018
Size
12 by 10in. (30.5 by 25.4cm)
Description
Title: FIGURE 28 [WOMAN] 1959
Note: 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.
Note: 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.
Medium
oil on canvas
Signature
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
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
