Louis le Brocquy
Painting, Visual Artist
1916 – 2012
Who was Louis le Brocquy?
Louis le Brocquy was an Irish painter born in Dublin. His work received many accolades in a career that spanned some seventy years of creative practice. In 1956, he represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale, winning the Premio Acquisito Internationale with A Family, subsequently included in the historic exhibition Fifty Years of Modern Art Brussels, World Fair 1958. The same year he married the Irish painter Anne Madden and left London to work in the French Midi.
Le Brocquy is widely acclaimed for his evocative "Portrait Heads" of literary figures and fellow artists, which include William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, and his friends Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon and Seamus Heaney, in recent years le Brocquy's early "Tinker" subjects and Grey period "Family" paintings, have attracted attention on the international marketplace placing le Brocquy within a very select group of British and Irish artists whose works have commanded prices in excess of £1 million during their lifetimes that include Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Frank Auerbach, and Francis Bacon.
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- Born
- Nov 10, 1916
Dublin - Parents
- Spouses
- Anne Madden
(1958 - )
- Anne Madden
- Nationality
- Republic of Ireland
- Education
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Lived in
- Dublin
- Died
- Apr 25, 2012
Dublin
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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