Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 12th November 2018

I rish & I nternational A rt M onday 12 th N ovember 2018 at 6.00 pm 87 72 Louis Le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) Standing Figure (1960) signed lower right and dated 1960 oil on board 25.5 x 17.75cm (10 x 7in) Provenance: The Dawson Gallery, Dublin (label verso); Collection of Melanie Le Brocquy; Thence by Descent Exhibited: The Dawson Gallery, Dublin (label verso); €10,000-€15,000 (£8,928-£13,392) Throughout the 1950s, Louis le Brocquy gradually refined his paintings of the isolated human presence into bony, spectral beings. They reflect existential anxieties of the time - “we…walked in fear of nuclear disaster” and the horrors of the Second World War had eroded faith in human nature. Also pertinent is the spinal injury, and prolonged surgery and recuperation, experienced by Anne Madden during the decade (they married in 1959).