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Melanie le Brocquy HRHA (1919-2018)
Estimate:
€2,000 - €3,000
Passed
Live Auction
Irish & International Art
Size
10 by 6.25 by 5in. (25.4 by 15.9 by 12.7cm)
Description
Title: MOTHER AND CHILD
Note: 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 continuing 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 Brocquy 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.
Note: 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 continuing 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 Brocquy 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.
Medium
bronze on black marble base; (no. 5 from an edition of 6)
Signature
signed with initials and numbered
