Interior Study of Head

Details

Louis le Brocquy, H.R.H.A. (b. 1916)
Interior Study of Head
signed, dedicated and dated 'LARS/FROM/LOUIS/1972' (lower right), signed and dated again 'LE BROCQUY 72' (on the reverse), signed again and numbered '306 L LE BROCQUY' (on the canvas-overlap), inscribed and dated again 'INTERIER [sic]/STUDY/OF HEAD/1972' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
15 x 18 in. (38.1 x 45.8 cm.)

Exhibited

St-Paul, Fondation Maeght, Louis le Brocquy, 1973, no. 37.

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Lot Essay

An early instance of a small series of heads of Descartes. The artist commented on these works, 'I came across the skull of René Descartes in a glass case in the Musée de l'Homme, Paris - an ivory dome, smooth as a woman's breast. Merely a bit of bone perhaps but, by implication, a tabernacle to this great instance of human consciousness' (Louis le Brocquy, Paintings 1939-1996, Irish Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Catalogue, Dublin, 1996, p. 104).

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