Mille Têtes; Cùchulainn II

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Louis le Brocquy, H.R.H.A. (b.1916)
Mille Têtes; Cùchulainn II
with Tabard Frères et Soeurs insignia (on the reverse)
hand woven woollen tapestry by Tabard Frères et Soeurs, Aubusson, no. 1970
73 x 89½ in. (185.4 x 227.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1970

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The present work, based on the saga of Tàin, belongs to the artist's ongoing Cùchulainn series, in which the hero's fierce trophies are displayed in triumph. Speaking of these colourful tapestries, le Brocquy has said: 'I have tried to produce a sort of group or mass emergence of human presence, features uncertain - merely shadowed blobs or patches - but vaguely analogous perhaps in terms of woven colour to the weathered, enduring stone boss-heads of Clonfert or Entremont - or of Dysert O'Dea... This poses a difficult pictorial problem. Pictorially a mass of individuals, conscious of each other, implies incident - better left to photography perhaps. In Clonfert each individual head is conscious only of the viewer facing it. This I think is the secret of their mass regard. Each head is self-contained, finally a lump of presence. No exchange or incident takes place between their multiplied features' (see Dorothy Walker, Louis le Brocquy, Dublin, 1981, pp. 51-52).

A weaving of this edition is in the collection of the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin.