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53 Louis Le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) Study Towards an Image of William Shakespeare Opus W645 (1982)

signed lower right & dated 1982

watercolour

61 x 46cm (24 x 18in)

Provenance:

Gimpel Fils Gallery, London (label verso);

Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris (label verso);

Garrett O’Connor & Associates, Dublin, March 2007 Lot 124;

Private Collection

Exhibited:

Gimpel - Hanover + Andre Emmerich Galerien, Zurich: 22nd January - 19th February 1983 (label verso)

Gimpels Fils Gallery, London - May 1983: No.18 (label verso)

€20,000-30,000 (£17,391-26,086)

Le Brocquy is widely acclaimed for his evocative Portrait Heads. His painting of the heads of great literary and artistic

figures such as W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, William Shakespeare, Federico Garcia Lorca

and Seamus Heaney are recognized the world over as being a distinctively powerful and significant part of the canon of

20th Century art.