Irish Art, including Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
Irish Art, including Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
LOUIS LE BROCQUY, H.R.H.A. | TRAVELLING WOMAN WITH NEWSPAPER
Auction Closed
September 9, 02:37 PM GMT
Estimate
700,000 - 1,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
LOUIS LE BROCQUY, H.R.H.A.
1916-2012
TRAVELLING WOMAN WITH NEWSPAPER
signed l.l.: LE BROCQUY; also signed, inscribed and dated on the reverse: THE LAST TINKER/ LOUIS LE BROCQUY/ 1947-48; further signed on the stretcher
oil on board
115cm by 83cm., 45 by 32¾in.
Painted in 1947-48.
The Artist, until 1985;
Private Collection;
Sotheby's, London, 18 May 2000, lot 158
Herbert Read, Twaalf Britse Schilders, exhibition catalogue, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1949, p.62, illustrated;
Dorothy Walker, Louis le Brocquy, Ward Rover Press, Dublin, 1981, pp.10-11, 22, 23, 75, pl.4, illustrated in colour;
Serge Fauchereau, Louis le Brocquy (exh. cat.), Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, 1982;
Anne Madden, Louis le Brocquy, Seeing his Way, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1994, pp.75, 77-78, 81, 85, 257, illustrated in colour;
Alistair Smith, Louis le Brocquy, Paintings, 1939-1996, (exh. cat.), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 1996, pp.14, 25, 79, illustrated in colour;
Yvonne Scott, Louis le Brocquy Allegory and Legend, (exh. cat.), Hunt Museum, Limerick, 2006, p.18