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Louis le Brocquy HRHA (b.1916) STUDY TOWARDS AN I

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Louis le Brocquy HRHA (b.1916) STUDY TOWARDS AN I
<B>Louis le Brocquy HRHA (b.1916)</B><BR>STUDY TOWARDS AN IMAGE OF W. B. YEATS, 1975<BR>signed and inscribed lower left<BR>aquatint with drypoint (no. 59 from an edition of 100)<BR>50 by 44cm., 19.5 by 17.5in; sheet measures 30 by 22.5 inches<BR>Literature:<BR>Dorothy Walker, Louis le Brocquy, Ward River Press, Dublin, 1981, page 56 and illustrated on page 113 Commissioned by the Swedish gallery owner Per-Olov Börjeson as part of a portfolio of portraits of 33 Nobel Prize-winners by 33 artists. Le Brocquy chose to depict W. B. Yeats, whom he had met as a young boy, and the project sparked a long series of studies that were shown in the Dawson Gallery, Dublin, and later abroad.
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