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Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012)
Estimate:
€18,000 - €22,000
Sold
€18,000
Live Auction
Irish & International Art
Size
24.25 by 18.25in. (61.6 by 46.4cm)
Description
Title: IMAGE OF W.B. YEATS , 1991
Note: Le Brocquy remarks: 'From among the several Irish Nobel prizewinners at that date - Beckett had not yet received his award - I chose Yeats as my subject, having known him when I was a boy and because of his vast and mysterious personality. I made a number of studies for my final aquatint, and was struck by their diversity. It was then I realised that a portrait can no longer be the stable, pillared entity of Renaissance vision - that the portrait in our time can have no visual finality'.Quoted from lebrocquy.com
Note: Le Brocquy remarks: 'From among the several Irish Nobel prizewinners at that date - Beckett had not yet received his award - I chose Yeats as my subject, having known him when I was a boy and because of his vast and mysterious personality. I made a number of studies for my final aquatint, and was struck by their diversity. It was then I realised that a portrait can no longer be the stable, pillared entity of Renaissance vision - that the portrait in our time can have no visual finality'.Quoted from lebrocquy.com
Medium
watercolour
Signature
signed lower right; with artist's achive number (W188) on Kerlin Gallery label on reverse
Provenance
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin;Private collection
