Miss Joanna Yorke; and Miss Lisa Yorke

Details

Louis le Brocquy, H.R.H.A. (b. 1916)
Miss Joanna Yorke; and Miss Lisa Yorke
the one signed 'Le Brocquy' (lower left), signed with a monogram (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated 'MISS JOANNA YORKE/LOUIS LE BROCQUY 1953' (on the canvas overlap), signed with initials again 'LE B' (on a label attached to reverse); the other signed, dated and signed with a monogram 'LE BROCQUY/53' (lower left), signed again twice, inscribed and dated again 'MISS LISA YORKE/LOUIS LE BROCQUY 1953/LE B' (on a label attached to the reverse)
each oil on canvas laid on board
each 8¼ x 7¼ in. (21 x 18.4 cm.)
2 (2)

Provenance

Commissioned by the present owner's father, F.R.S. Yorke.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Further details

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Lot Essay

The portraits of Miss Joanna and Miss Lisa Yorke were commissioned by their father F.R.S. Yorke, the English Modernist architect. Yorke formed YRM in 1944, with Eugene Rosenberg and Cyril Mardall, one of Britain's most successsful post-war architectural practices who famously designed Gatwick Airport.

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