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Image of Samuel Beckett, 1987

Image of Samuel Beckett, 1987
Oil on canvas, 70 x 70 cm (detail) (no.544)

'Ossip Mandelstam, in his extraordinory Conversation about Dante, says: "A quotation is not an excert. A quotation is a cicada. Its natural state is that of unceasing sound. Having once seized hold of the air, it will not let go." Louis le Brocquy's heads are in this way quotations from bodies, from lives even. We have no sense of them being orphaned from their supporting frames or times. They take hold of the air, they probe it with a deep pure stare.' - Seamus Heaney, 1981

Private Collection