59A
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012)
Estimate:
€5,000 - €7,000
Sold
€3,800
Live Auction
Important Irish Art
Size
13.50 by 11.50in. (34.3 by 29.2cm)
Description
Title: EIGHT IRISH WRITERS, 1981
Note: A series of eight portraits depicting Yeats, Synge, Joyce, Beckett, Kinsella, Montague, Heaney and Stuart, accompanied by a poem by each respective author, a biographical note by Andrew Carpenter, and a preface by Seamus Heaney. The eight charcoal drawings were printed by collotype lithography at the Imprimerie Arte, Adrien Maeght, Paris, where the text was also printed. Presented in the original linen cased portfolio box made in Dublin by John F. Newman and Sons Ltd.
Note: A series of eight portraits depicting Yeats, Synge, Joyce, Beckett, Kinsella, Montague, Heaney and Stuart, accompanied by a poem by each respective author, a biographical note by Andrew Carpenter, and a preface by Seamus Heaney. The eight charcoal drawings were printed by collotype lithography at the Imprimerie Arte, Adrien Maeght, Paris, where the text was also printed. Presented in the original linen cased portfolio box made in Dublin by John F. Newman and Sons Ltd.
Condition
Excellent condition.
Medium
collotype lithographs; (8); (no. 41 from an edition of 100); unframed, in the original linen folio case
Signature
numbered in red on editions page; each signed and numbered in pencil in the lower margin
