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Lot 119PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE OLGA DAVENPORT

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

Study towards an image of James Joyce

Fermé16 December 2009

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GBP 5,625

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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.

Purchased by the present owner at the Gimpel Fils London exhibition, 17 April 1978.

Note du spécialiste

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.).