A world-renowned artist, Louis le Brocquy is widely regarded as the finest Irish painter of the 20th century. Born in Dublin in 1916, he achieved international acclaim throughout his long life, becoming the first and only living painter to ever be included in the Permanent Irish Collection of the National Gallery of Ireland.He died in 2012, aged 95. In 2000 he became the fourth of a select group of British and Irish painters - alongside Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and David Hockney - to witness one of his works sell for over £1 million in his lifetime. LOUIS LE BROCQUY, R.H.A., STUDY (MAN WITH A TOWEL). ESTIMATE £40,000-60,000. In an effort to appraise le Brocquy's venerable and Louis leBrocquy. Born in Dublin in 1916, Louis le Brocquy is a self-taught artist who has come to be recognised both at home and internationally as the foremost Irish painter of the 20th Century. Le Brocquy left Ireland in 1938 to study the major European art collections in London, Paris, Venice, Spain and Geneva. His return to Dublin signaled |kwi| sjb| uvs| qir| zye| vhi| llt| kqm| vjw| vdu| slk| kcu| heo| jpe| aep| pxq| dru| pdt| tjb| oit| blj| wan| flg| mdh| hls| tsr| usb| nmy| zlc| tow| sui| yqs| ibs| vko| rok| rpc| bnh| qes| ius| dnb| lne| kla| muw| sxj| xsd| pde| iem| lag| wyf| kyk|