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Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012)
Estimate:
€2,500 - €3,500
Sold
€2,500
Live Auction
Irish & International Art
Size
4.50 by 6.75in. (11.4 by 17.1cm)
Description
Title: "...AND DISAPPEARED WITH A CURIOUS PERFUME AND MOST MELODIOUS TWANG."
Note: 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.
Note: 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.
Medium
pen and ink with gouache over pencil
Signature
signed lower left; with poem inscribed in the right-hand margin; with poem printed and affixed verso
Provenance
Private Collector Gallery, Cork;Private collection;Whyte's, 28 November 2011, lot 39;Private collection
