Lot 119
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Louis le Brocquy, H.R.H.A. (b. 1916)

Study towards an image of James Joyce

Details
Louis le Brocquy, H.R.H.A. (b. 1916)
Study towards an image of James Joyce
charcoal and coloured chalk on paper
9 x 7 in. (22.9 x 17.8 cm.)
Executed in 1977.
Provenance
Purchased by the present owner at the Gimpel Fils London exhibition, 17 April 1978.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Louis le Brocquy: Studies towards an image of James Joyce, Galleria d'Arte San Marco dei Giustiniani and tour, 1977 - 1978, illustrated.
Exhibited
Genova, Galleria d'Arte San Marco dei Giustiniani, Louis le Brocquy: Studies towards an image of James Joyce, November - December 1977, no. 15: this exhibition travelled to Zurich, Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, January - February 1978; London, Gimpel Fils, March - April 1978; Belfast, The Arts Council Gallery, May 1978; Dublin, The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, June - July 1978; New York, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, September - October 1978; London, Waddington Galleries, November 1978; and Toronto, Waddington Galleries, December 1978.
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Please note the work is signed and numbered on the reverse.

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Lot Essay

Louis le Brocquy painted portraits of James Joyce on many occasions betwen 1977 and 1995. Le Brocquy comments 'To attempt today a portrait, a single static image of a great artist such as Joyce, appears to me to be futile as well as impertinent. Long conditioned by photography, the cinema and psychology, we now perceive the human individual as facetted, kinetic. And so I have tried as objectively as possible to draw from the depths of paper or canvas these changing and even contradictory traces of the man' (see Exhibition catalogue, Louis le Brocquy, Studies towards an image of James Joyce, Genova, 1977, intro.).

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