Cover from Irish Arts Review, Vol. 19, Issue 1, Summer 2002. CSIA
Researching Louis le Brocquy (1916-2012) at the National Gallery of Ireland
The literature on the painting A Family is relatively extensive for a single Irish painting produced in the mid 20th century. Two essays which discuss the painting in detail are by Dr. Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch (Circa, 2007) and Dr. Róisín Kennedy (Third Text, 2005) which both trace the exhibition history of the painting and the critical responses it has received over the decades. Mick Wilson, in his catalogue entry (Hugh Lane, 2007), analyses Le Brocquy's painting in relation to the work of Old Master artists, particularly the tradition of reclining nudes in the work of Giorgione, Goya, Manet and Cézanne. Other references to the painting are included in more general accounts of modern Irish painting notably S. B. Kennedy (1997). The CSIA also holds an artist folder containing a variety of ephemera relating to Louis le Brocquy's artwork and career.
Suggested Bibliography
Bhreathnach-Lynch, Síghle, 'Louis le Brocquy's A Familly', Circa, Dublin, January 2003
Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane. (2007). Louis le Brocquy and his masters early heroes later homage. Dublin: Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
CSIA 709.415LEB
Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris. (1979). Louis Le Brocquy: images de W.B. Yeats, James Joyce,Samuel Beckett, Federico Garcia Lorca, Auguste Strindberg, Francis Bacon. Galerie Jeanne Bucher
General Note: Text in French.
CSIA 709.415YEA
Hunt Museum, Limerick. (2006). Louis le Brocquy: allegory & legend. Limerick: The Hunt Museum
CSIA 709.415LEB
Irish Museum of Modern Art. (2006). Louis Le Brocquy: the head image, notes on painting and awareness. Milan: Charta
CSIA 709.415LEB
Kennedy, S.B. (1997). Great Irish Artists: from Lavery to le Brocquy. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan
CSIA 709.415/4K
Morgan, George. (1994). Louis Le Brocquy: procession/[including] an interview with George Morgan. Kinsale: Gandon Editions
CSIA 709.415LEB
National Gallery of Ireland. (2006). Louis Le Brocquy Portrait Heads: a celebration of the artist's ninetieth birthday. National Gallery of Ireland
CSIA 709.415LEB
Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi. (1982). Louis le Brocquy. Charleroi: Palais des Beaux-Arts
General Note: Text in French.
CSIA 709.415LEB
Ruane, Medb. (2002). 'Le Brocquy's early masterpiece acquired by the National Gallery of Ireland'. Irish Arts Review, Vol. 19, Issue 1, Summer, pp. 22-23
Taylor Galleries Dublin. (2006). Louis le Brocquy human images: thirteen silkscreen editions/with an essay by Caimhim Mac Giolla Leith. Dublin: Taylor Galleries
CSIA 709.415LEB
Taylor Galleries Dublin. (2000). Louis le Brocquy: tapestries = tapisseries d'Aubusson. Dublin: Taylor Galleries
CSIA 709.415LEB
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