EXHIBITION PREVIEW
THE NEW GARDEN SERIES
EXHIBITION PREVIEW
THE NEW GARDEN SERIES
Uccello, 1999
Aubusson tapestry, Atelier René Duché 2000, Meilleur ouvrier de France .154 x 230 cmThe edition is based on a larger version measuring 300 x 420 cm commissioned by Scott Tallon & Walker for the A&L Goodbody Building, Dublin.
The artist has said of this design: ' I have named this tapestry after the great fifteenth century artist, Paolo Di Bono, better known as Uccello, whose amazing Rout of San Romano I have admired since painting first interested me. I am still moved by its then adventurous perception of space and perspective, including that astonishing foreshortened figure lying in full armour under the horses' hooves.
But yet another wonder which haunts me in this painting is the recurrent emergence of oranges, appearing like small suns from their dark foliage, very much as I saw them a little later, unbelievably exotic, blazing from their small trees on the sidewalks of the frontier town of Menton in 1939'. Louis le Brocquy, May 1999
