Louis le Brocquy 'Recognised both at home and internationally as the foremost Irish painter of the 20th century.' The Irish Times paintings tapestries prints exhibitions market news texts online one man's eye quoting the artist bio & bibliography agents contact 'I'm struck, not by what I've been able to subscribe to painting, but how much this mysterious old art has taught me about the nature of life.' chronology of a life       website and images © Pierre le Brocquy background photograph © Perry Ogden                           website and images © Pierre le Brocquy background photograph © Perry Ogden

There's something reveric and poetic about the entire body of work, as is evidenced by le Brocquy's frequent portraits of fellow Irish greats such as Oscar Wilde, W B Yeats and Samuel Beckett. Yet le Brocquy's poetry is always rigorously painterly and visual. He never falls off into literary illustration or compositional melodrama. As Francis Bacon once remarked, le Brocquy continues to be "obsessed by figuration outside and on the other side of illustration". And there is certainly a thematic otherness haunting all of his painterly and graphic work, whether it be the psychologically incisive portraits, ritualised figure gatherings, lyrical still-lifes or the long series of mist-drenched watercolour landscapes. Robert Clark, The Guardian

 

 

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'Recognised both at home and internationally as the foremost Irish painter of the 20th century'
The Irish Times, Leader

Photograph © Perry Ogden