Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 30th April 2018 at 6pm

I RISH & I NTERNATIONAL A RT A UCTION M ONDAY 30 TH A PRIL 2018 AT 6.00 PM 71 Louis Le Brocquy HRHA ( - ) Tinker ChilDren in spring (1946) signed lower left and dated ‘46 watercolour and ink on paper 30.5 x 23.5cm (12.01 x 9.25in) Provenance: Collection of the late Maurice Collis, Autor and Art Critic; England & Co. Gallery, London; Private Collection Exhibited: Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd, Leicester Galleries, London - Exhibition of Works by Living Irish Art - October 1946 (labels verso); Literature: La France Libre, December 1946 - January 1947 - illustrated on page 172; Louis le Brocquy began making paintings with Travellers as a subject in the mid-1940s, several years before Samuel Beckett wrote ‘Waiting for Godot’. Their shared motivation for gravitating towards outsider protagonists was that society truly sees itself reflected in those it casts as outsiders. Le Brocquy, self-taught as an artist, had quickly absorbed the lessons of European modern- ism and his ease with Cubism and subsequent developments is evident in his vibrant Traveller and Family compositions of the time, though the work proved too challenging for Dublin’s conservative art establishment. €30,000-50,000 (£26,086-43,478)