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

Children; Study for 'A Fearful World'

Details

Louis le Brocquy, H.R.H.A. (b.1916)
Children; Study for 'A Fearful World'
signed and dated 'LE BROCQUY/48' (lower left), signed and dated again and inscribed'CHILDREN 1948. Mixed media/Study for 'A Fearful World'/Louis le Brocquy' (on the backboard)
pencil, pen, black ink and watercolour
8¼ x 5¾ in. (21 x 14.6 cm.)

Exhibited

London, Gimpel Fils, Louis le Brocquy, 1949, no.36.

Lot Essay

'In several of the more important works and particularly in the 'Fearful World', he shows himself a natural painter both sensuous and sensitive ... with so much invention that there is never any risk of his harmonies becoming concillatory'.
(see The Times, 22 June 1948).

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