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__NOTOC__ Louis le Brocquy (10 November 1916 – 25 April 2012) 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'' (a once-off award when the event was acquired by the Nestle Corporation) with ''A Family'' (National Gallery of Ireland),〔Louis le Brocquy represented Ireland at the 1956 Venice Biennale alongside the sculptor Hilary Heron. His painting ''A Family'' was awarded the ''Premio Acquisito Internationale'', and was subsequently included in the exhibition ''Mostra dei Premiatialla XXVIII Biennale'', Messina, 1956.〕 subsequently included in the historic exhibition ''Fifty Years of Modern Art'' Brussels, World Fair 1958.〔The exhibition "Cinquante Ans d'Art Moderne" was an ambitious attempt to trace and categorise the development of painting and sculpture from Cézanne and Rodin to date (World Fair, Brussels, 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.〔The painting ''Tinker Woman with Newspaper'' (1947–48) set a world auction record for an Irish living artist, Sotheby's, Irish Sale, London, May 2000. The price (Stg£1.15m) places 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. http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/dept/DepartmentGlobal.jsp?dept_id=157〕 The artist's work is represented in numerous public collections from the Guggenheim, New York to the Tate Modern, London. In Ireland, he is honoured as the first and only painter to be included during his lifetime in the ''Permanent Irish Collection'' of the National Gallery of Ireland.〔The painting ''A Family'' was presented as a gift to the Gallery by businessman, collector, and chair of the board of the National Gallery of Ireland, Lochlann Quinn, in 2001, using section 1003 of the Taxes Consolidation Act on donations of objects of historical and cultural pre-eminence (1997). He had purchased it for Stg£1.7million. Dr. Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch, Curator of Irish Art, National Gallery of Ireland, has observed: 'Presented as a gift in 2001 to the National Gallery, A Family is rightly recognized as a seminal painting in the history of 20th-century Irish art. It is not only an important transitional work in the artist's oeuvre but one anticipating modernism as an everyday style in Irish art. All of this is implicitly acknowledged in its being on display to the public. To date, the exception to the policy of only displaying work by dead artists in the Gallery is the continuous acquisition of portraits by contemporary artists for the National Portrait Collection. Le Brocquy was the only artist to have had a work on show as part of the permanent collection during his lifetime.' ''Louis le Brocquy's A Family'' : 'An unwholesome and satanic distortion of natural beauty', CIRCA Art Magazine, 2002. (Quote 'An unwholesome and satanic distortion of natural beauty', The Irish Times, letter from "Verdad" of Co. Dublin, 6 March 1952).〕 Le Brocquy died on 25 April 2012 and was survived by his daughter Seyre from his first marriage (1938–1948) to Jean Stoney, and his two grandsons John-Paul and David; his second wife Anne Madden, and their two sons, Pierre and Alexis.〔(Artists le Brocquy dies at his home ) The Examiner, 25 April 2012.〕〔(Louis le Brocquy obituary ) The Guardian, 26 April 2012〕 ==Monographs== *Juncosa, Enriqué, Louis le Brocquy. The Head Image'', IMMA Series (Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2006), with a contribution by Louis le Brocquy ‘The Human Head, Notes on painting and awareness’, 48 pp., 16 plates. ISBN 88-8158-616-9 *Le Brocquy, Pierre, ed., ''Louis le Brocquy, The Head Image'', (Kinsale: Gandon Editions 1996), with contributions by Prof. George Morgan ‘An interview with Louis le Brocquy’; Michael Peppiatt ‘An interview with Louis le Brocquy’ (1979), (– German trans. ) 184 pp., 80 plates. ISBN 0-946641-58-7 *Madden le Brocquy, Anne, L''ouis le Brocquy, A Painter Seeing his Way'' (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1994), 317 pp., 118 duotones. ISBN 0-7171-2180-1 *Morgan, George, ''Louis le Brocquy, The Irish Landscape'' (Dublin: Gandon Editions, 1992), with contributions by Louis le Brocquy ‘Artist’s Note’; Prof. George Morgan ‘Watercolour Landscape Painting – An interview with Louis le Brocquy’, (– German trans. ) 100 pp., 40 plates. including special edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies, signed and numbered by the artist. Bound in dark grey cloth, black Morocco spine, stamped in silver, housed in publisher's matching slip-case, Kenny's Bindery, Galway. ISBN 0-946641-29-3 *Morgan, George, ''Louis le Brocquy, Procession'' (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 1994), contributions by Prof. George Morgan ‘An interview with Louis le Brocquy’, (– German trans. ) 65 pp., 28 plates. ISBN 0-946641-44-7 *Walker, Dorothy, ''Louis le Brocquy'' (Dublin: Ward River Press, 1981; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982), with contributions by John Russell; Dorothy Walker; Earnán O’Malley; le Brocquy ‘A Painter’s Notes on his Irishness’, ‘Notes on Painting and Awareness’; Jacques Dupin ‘The Paintings of 1964 – 1966’; Claude Esteban ‘Archaeology of the Face: Images of Lorca’; Seamus Heaney ‘Louis le Brocquy’s heads’. 167 pp., 140 plates. ISBN 0-907085-13-X 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louis le Brocquy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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