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Chronology of a life
Events, studio output, critical commentary, and artist's statements compiled by Pierre le Brocquy

FIRST WORKS (1938-1945)

TINKER PAINTINGS (1945-1950)

GREY PERIOD (1951-1954)

1916-37	Dublin		1945-46	Early 'Tinker' period		1951	Family paintings
1938-39	Europe		1947	London			Eden Tapestries
1940-41	Return		1948-50	Later 'Tinker' period		1952-53	Aubusson, France
1942-43	Irish Exhibition of Living Art			Early tapestry designs:		1954-55	Royal College of Art, London
1944	Native influence			Irish Tinkers, Garlanded Goat, Allegory
1945	Turning point

WHITE PERIOD (1956-1966)

ANCESTRAL HEADS (1964-1974)

PORTRAIT HEADS (1975-2006)

1956-57	Presences		1964-66	Musée de l'Homme, Paris		1975-76	W.B. Yeats
1958-59	Bargemon, France		1967-68	Táin Bó Cuailnge		1977-78	James Joyce, Federico Garcia Lorca
1960	Préverenge, Switzerland		1969-70	The Táin		1979-80	Samuel Beckett
1961-63	Domaine des Combes, Carros		1971-72	Northern troubles			Francis Bacon
			1973-74	Cúchulainn tapestries, Aubusson, France			August Strindberg, Shakespeare

PORTRAIT HEADS (1975-2006)

LIFE & STILL LIFE / LANDSCAPES

PORTRAIT HEADS (1990-2006)

1981-83	Self		1984-85	Lilies, Doves ...		1990-93	Oscar Wilde
	Delacroix			Procession series			Bono
	Mandela		1986	Dubliners		1994-95	Erwin Schrodinger
1983	Seamus Heaney		1987	Irish landscape			George Moore
	Picasso		1988-89	Collaboration with Samuel Beckett			Descartes

HUMAN IMAGES (1996-2003)

HOMAGE TO HIS MASTERS (2005-2006)

1996	Human Images, early phase		2005	Velázquez, Goya, Manet and Cézanne
1997-99	Human Images, later phase		2006	90th birthday celebrations
2000-01	Return to Dublin		2007-08	Freedom of Dublin
2002	National Gallery of Ireland
2003-04	Bono portrait commission