Lot Essay
This work is recorded in the artist's archive as Opus 434.
Apart from his well-known series of Irish writers and a number of imaginative studies of William Shakespeare, le Brocquy has made repeated studies of two great literary figures of very different temperament and genius; the Iberian Federico Garcia Lorca and the Scandinavian August Strindberg.
Apart from his well-known series of Irish writers and a number of imaginative studies of William Shakespeare, le Brocquy has made repeated studies of two great literary figures of very different temperament and genius; the Iberian Federico Garcia Lorca and the Scandinavian August Strindberg.