Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 21st October 2019

I rish & I nternational A rt M onday 21 st O ctober 2019 at 6.00 pm 75 52 Louis Le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) James Joyce, Study 31 (W274)(1977) signed and dated ‘77 verso with artist’s archive No. W274 watercolour on paper 23 x 19cm (9.1 x 7.5in) Provenance: Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich (label verso); Private Collection €7,000-9,000 (£6,194-7,964) Yeats was the first Irish literary figure whose likeness le Brocquy attempted - though he was of course always after something more than a likeness. Soon after he had made studies of Yeats there was, he later said, a certain inevitability about the prospect of approach another giant, James Joyce. They were, after all, fellow Dubliners. Beckett became the next part of a literary trinity that provided inspiration for some of le Brocquy’s most celebrated works.