75
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012)
Estimate:
€1,500 - €2,000
Sold
€1,900
Live Auction
Irish & International Art
Size
22 by 30in. (55.9 by 76.2cm)
Description
Title: PROCESSION WITH LILLIES I, 1991
Note: 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.
Note: 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.
Medium
lithograph on handmade Japan paper; (no. 62 from an edition on 75)
Signature
signed and numbered lower right
