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Portrait of Samuel Beckett
Details
Louis le Brocquy, H.R.H.A. (b. 1916)
Portrait of Samuel Beckett
signed, numbered and dated 'LE BROCQUY/W 487 OCT 79' (on the reverse)
watercolour
23½ x 17¾ in. (59.7 x 45 cm.)
Portrait of Samuel Beckett
signed, numbered and dated 'LE BROCQUY/W 487 OCT 79' (on the reverse)
watercolour
23½ x 17¾ in. (59.7 x 45 cm.)
Provenance
Acquired by the present owner at the 1979 exhibition.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Louis le Brocquy, Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, 1979, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Louis le Brocquy and the Celtic Head Image, Albany, New York State Museum, 1981, p. 61, no. 91, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Louis le Brocquy and the Celtic Head Image, Albany, New York State Museum, 1981, p. 61, no. 91, illustrated.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Louis le Brocquy, November - December 1979, not numbered.
Albany, New York State Museum, Louis le Brocquy and the Celtic Head Image, September - November 1981, no. 91.
Albany, New York State Museum, Louis le Brocquy and the Celtic Head Image, September - November 1981, no. 91.
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.
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