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

Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, whence purchased by the present owners, December 1979

Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Louis le Brocquy, November - December 1979, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue;
New York, New York State Department, Louis le Brocquy and the Celtic Head Image, September - November 1981, no.98, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue;
Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Louis le Brocquy, October 1982, no.78.

Although le Brocquy first met Bacon in London in the 1950s, it was not until the year of the present work, 1979, that he created his first images of the artist. Bacon even wrote the introduction to le Brocquy's 1966 retrospective at the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane and aptly observed, '...le Brocquy belongs to a category of artists who have always existed - obsessed by figuration outside and on the other side of illustration - who are aware of the vast and potent possibilties of inventing ways by which fact and appearance can be reconjugated'.