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Louis le Brocquy HRHA (b.1916) THE TÁIN

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Louis le Brocquy HRHA (b.1916) THE TÁIN
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (b.1916) THE TÁIN - MAGIC CHARIOT, 1991 signed on label sewn on reverse Aubusson wool tapestry (no. 2 from an edition of 6) 184 by 129cm., 72.5 by 50.75in. Provenance: Taylor Galleries, November 2000; Private collection Literature: Louis le Brocquy: Aubusson Tapestries, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 2001, unpaginated (illustrated) Woven at the Atelier René Douche, France. One of a series of 22 tapestries based on le Brocquy's 1969 illustrations to The Táin. Originally intended to be issued in a limited edition of nine, the edition was closed by the artist at six. “I hope that these images from Táin Bó Cuailgne, transmuted into the woven forms of tapestry, may be seen as a tribute to the poet Thomas Kinsella, who inspired them and to the devoted publisher and designer, Liam Miller, who gave them their original coherence” (Louis le Brocquy, op. cit.).