Catalogue of Works
Image of Samuel Beckett, 1989

Image of Samuel Beckett, 1989
Oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm (detail) (no.557)

Commenting on his series of images of Samuel Beckett, le Brocquy says: 'I don't really think of them as portraits, since no one, still, definative image can possibly reflect a person of our time. What one gropes for, I imagine, is rather an identity in motion, traversing the diverse elements composing it - elements reaching back into ancestral time and perhaps even forward.'

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