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Louis le Brocquy and his Masters. Early Heroes, Later Homage Texts by Barbara Dawson 'Unfailing Eye', Louis le Brocquy 'Artist's Note', Mick Wilson 'To look, and then to look again, once more', Pierre le Brocquy 'Chronology: First Works'. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Louis le Brocquy and his Masters. Early Heroes, Later Homage, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 14 January - 30 March 2007. Louis le Brocquy, Portrait Heads Texts by Colm Tóibín ‘Louis le Brocquy, A Portrait of the Artist as an Alchemist’, and Dr. Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch, “Behind the Billowing Curtain of the Face”. Louis le Brocquy’s Portrait Heads; Pierre le Brocquy 'Chronology: The Head Series.' Published on the occasion of the exhibition Louis le Brocquy, Portrait Heads, 'A celebration of the artist’s 90th birthday’, National Gallery of Ireland, 4 November - 13 January. Louis le Brocquy, The Head Image Enrique Juncosa: Foreword; Louis le Brocquy: The Human Head. Notes on Painting and Awareness. 55 pages, 15 colour plates. Imma Series 1. Irish Musum of Modern Art, 2006. The Head Image is the first of the IMMA series of books presenting the voice of the artist, in various forms of statements, essays, interviews and illustrated works. In it the acclaimed Irish artist Louis le Brocquy, offers a series of mediations on his art practice on the occasion of his 90th Birthday. The friend of such writers and artists as Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon and Seamus Heaney, in this essay on painting he seeks to elucidate for himself as well as for his readers the precise ways in which the act of painting an object creates a parallel experience of the world. In his words, “Reality is stripped down to a deeper layer and the ordinary is seen to be marvelous”. Because of his absolute fascination with the human form and especially the head, his thoughts, developed throughout his long career, and brought together here in this essay offer a unique insight into the art of painting and its relationship with that particular subject. Louis le Brocquy, The Head Image Published by Gandon Editions, Kinsale. Le Brocquy, Pierre, ed. Introductory interview of the artist by George Morgan, 184 pages, portfolio of 80 full-page colour plates.Text in English, French and German. Published by Gandon Editions, Kinsale, 1996 on the occasion of the artist's eightieth birthday and the celebration of his life's work in a retrospective exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Oct. 1996 - Feb. 1997). Louis le Brocquy, Procession Published by Gandon Editions, Kinsalee. Introductory interview of the artist by George Morgan, 65 pages, porfolio of 28 full- page colour plates. Text in English, French and German. Published by Gandon Editions, Kinsale, 1994. Procession is a companion volume to The Irish Landscape. Louis le Brocquy, The Irish Landscape Published by Gandon Editions, Kinsale. Introductory interview of the artist by George Morgan, 40 colour plates (99 pages).Text in English, French and German. Published by Gandon Editions, Dublin, 1992. Includes a special edition, limited to 250 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, vellum-backed, black cloth stamped in silver, slip-case. Kenny's Bindery, Galway. Louis le Brocquy, A Painter, Seeing his Way by Anne madden le Brocquy Published by Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1994, 317 pages, 118 B/W illustrations.'The book traces the growth of le Brocquy's artistic sensibility in relation to his life and origins. The later part recounts a shared experience during the second half of the artist's life. The whole is an accomplished literary testament to Ireland's most distinguished living painter'. The Publishers. Louis le Brocquy by Dorothy Walker. Published by Ward River Press, Dublin 1981; Hodder & Stoughton, London 1982. Introduction by John Russell, Earnán O'Malley 'Louis le Brocquy'; Louis 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 pages, 140 colour & B/W plates. Published by Ward River Press 1981; Hodder & Stroughton, London, 1982. Special Edition, numbered and signed, half-bound, vellum and cloth boards, stamped in gold in a design by the artist, slip-case. GENERAL REFERENCE BOOKS Acatos, Sylvio, ed., Mayer (Luassanne: Acatos Editions 2004). Akoun, J.A., ed., Akoun (Paris: Editions de l'Amateur, 2004). Alley, Ronald, Tate Gallery Report, 1958-59 (London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1959). Alley, Ronald, Tate Gallery Report, 1959-60 (London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1960). Alley, Ronald, Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, 1978-80 (London: Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, 1981); Director's Report, 1988-90 (London: Tate Gallery Publications 1990). Arnold, Bruce, A Concise History of Irish Art (London: Thames & Hudson 1997). Barber, Fionna, Extending the Boundaries: essays on Irish and Scottish Art. 'Excavating Room 50: Irish Painting and the Cold War at the 1950 Venice Biennale' [Fintan Cullen and John Morrison, eds.] (Dublin: Ashgate 2003). Barrett, Cyril, A New History of Ireland, Vol VII, 1921-84 (Oxford: O.U.P. 2003) Beckett, Wendy, Art and the Sacred (London: Rider, Random Century Group 1992). Benezit, E., Dictionnaire des Peintres Sculpteurs et Graveurs (Paris: Gründ 1999). Burns, James, Leaving Certificate Art, History, and Appreciation (Dublin: School and College Services Ltd. 1976). Black, Eileen, The Catalogue. Drawing, Painting & Sculpture (Belfast: Ulster Museum, MAGNI, 2000). Brahammar, Gunnar; Modern Masters (Malmo: Per-Olov Börjeson 1980). Bruzzo, François, Les Plumes du Temps, 'Samuel Beckett', vol. 42 (Paris: Ed. Henri Veyrier, Paris 1991). Burns, James, (Dublin: School and College Services Ltd 1976 /). Clancy, Liam, The Mountain of the Women (New York: Doubleday 2002). Connolly, Claire; Joe Cleary, eds., Cambridge Companion to Irish Culture [Cambridge Companion Series] (Cambridge: University Press 2004). Contemporary Artists, 4th ed. (Detroit: St. James Press 1996). Cronin, Anthony, The Last Modernist (Glasgow: Harper Collins Publishers 1996). Crookshank, Anne; Desmond Fitzgerald, Ireland's Painters 1600-1940 (Yale; University Press 2002). Cullen, Fintan, Sources in Irish Art (Cork: University Press 2000). Daval, Jean-Luc, L'Oeuvre Unique Art Actuel (Geneva: Skira 1977). Davio, Le Tour du Monde en 80 Toques (Geneva: Universal Trading Co. 1995). Delarge, Jean-Pierre, Dictionnaire des Arts Plastiques, Modernes et Contemporains (Paris: Gründ 2001. Demarco, Richard, Celtic Vision in Contemporary Thought, 'The Celtic Consciousness', Robert O'Driscoll, ed., (Dublin: Dolmen/Canongate 1981). Déon, Michel, L'Irlande (Paris: Artus 1987). Deutsch, Andre, Designers in Britain 6 (London: Deutsch 1964, 1971). Dunne, Aidan, Smurfit Art Collection (Dublin: Jefferson Communications 2001). Dunne, Aidan; Fallon, Brian; One Hundred Years of Irish Art, Eamonn Mallie ed. (Befast 2000). Dupin, Jacques, L'Espace Autrement Dit (Paris: Editions Galilée 1982). Durozoi, Gérard, Dictionnaire de l'Art Moderne et Contemporain (Paris: Editions Hazan 1992). Ehrmann, Thierry, ed., Artprice (Paris: Groupe Serveur 2003). Esteban, Claude, Traces, Figures, Traversées (Paris: Editions Galilée 1985). Fallon, Brian, Irish Art 1830 - 1990 (Belfast: Appletree Press Ltd. 1994). Fallon, Brian, An Age of Innocence, Irish Culture 1930-1960 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1998). Finlay, Sarah, The National Self Portrait Gallery of Ireland. Vol. I, 1979-1989 (Limerick: University Press 1989). Fondation Van Gogh, Hommage à Van Gogh (Arles 1999). Forrester, Vivianne, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh (Arles 1996). Fournet, Claude, Art & Partage (Paris: Graph 2000). Fox, Peter, Tresures of the Library (Dublin: Trinity College Irish Academy 1986). Getlein, F.D., Christianity in Modern Art (Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Co. 1961). Giraudy, Daniele, Antibes 1928/1988 Catalogue Raisonné des Collections d'Art Moderne du Musée Picasso (Antibes: Editions du Musée Picasso 1988). Goulding, Basil, Painting and Sculpture of Today (Dublin: Hely Thom Ltd. 1965). Haftmann, Werner, Painting in the Twentieth Century (London: Lund Humphreys 1961). Harmon, Maurice ed., A celebebration, 'The Dolmen Press' (Dublin: Liliput Press 2001). Harbisson, Peter, Ireland's Treasures: 5000 Years of Artistic Expression (Connecticut: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. 2004). Hederman, M. P., Richard Kearney, eds., The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies (Dublin: Blackwater Press 1982). Huyghe, René, Portraits d'Artistes, Lilianne Thorn-Petit, ed. (Luxembourg: RTL Editions 1987) Joannon, Pierre, Irishness in a Changing Society (London: Colin Smythe 1987). Joannon, Pierre, L'Irlande (Paris: Artus 1989). Johnson & Sons, Inc., The Council House (Winconsin 1980). Kearney, Richard, Transitions 'An Art of Otherness' (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1988). Kearney, Richard, Poetics of Modernity (N.J.: Humanities Press 1996). Kearney, Richard, Sources in Irish Art (Cork: University Press 2000). Kennedy, S.B., Irish Art, 1880 -1950 (Belfast: Queens University 1990). Kennedy, S.B., Great Irish Artists. From Lavery to le Brocquy (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1997). Kinsella, Thomas; Seamus Heaney, John Montague, Louis le Brocquy, O'Riada Retrospective (Dublin: National Concert Hall 1987). Kissane, Noël, The Irish Face (Dublin: The National Library of Ireland 1986). Knowles, Roderic, Contemporary Irish Art (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1982). Lalor, Brian, The Encyclopaedia of Ireland (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan 2003). Langui, E.M., Cinquante ans d'Art Moderne (Brussels: Editions de la Connaissance 1958). Le Buhan, Dominique, Les écrivains de la conscience européenne, 'Louis le Brocquy' (France: Éditions Légendes 1997). Le Brocquy, Sybil, Brendan the Navigator (Dublin: Browne and Nolan, P.J. Carroll & Co. 1964). Lerm Hayes, Christa-Maria, Joyce in Art (Dublin, Lilliput Press 2004). Le Thorel-Daviot, Pascale, Petit Dictionnaire des Artistes Contempoarains (Paris: Larousse Bordas 1996). Leventhal, A.J., Living Art Exhibit, Irish Art (Dublin: Parkside Press 1944). Lindman, David, Treasury of Stamps, 1200 rare and beautiful stamps in colour (New York: Harry N. Abrahams, Inc. Publishers 1975). MacBride, Seán, Artist's for Amnesty (Dublin: Amnesty Ireland 1982). Maeght, La Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght (Paris: Maeght Editeur 1974). Mayer, Le livre international des ventes aux enchères (Laussanne: Acatos 2004). McConkey, Kenneth, A Free Spirit, Irish Art, 1860-1960 (London: Antique Collectors Club 1990). McRedmond, Louis, General ed., Modern Irish Lives: Dictionary of 20th-century Biography (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1996). Miller, Liam, Dolmen Book of Irish Stamps (Mountrath, Co. Laois: Dolmen Press 1986). Miller, Liam, An Illustrated Bibliography of the Dolmen Press, 1951-1976 (Mountrath, Co. Laois: Dolmen Press 1976). Morpurgo, J.E., ed., Maurice Collis 'Louis le Brocquy', Penguin Parade No. II (Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd.1948). Morrison, Patrick, Artists in Situ (Ravena: Editions Montanari 1997). Murray, Peter, An Illustrated Catalologue of the Crawford Art Gallery (Cork: Crawford Municipal Art Gallery 1995). Murray, Peter, Irish Art History and Society (Cork: Crawford Municipal Art Gallery 1997). Paris Musées, Le Guide Général du Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris: Réunion Musées Nat. 1995). O'Reilly, James D., Private Catalogue of Club Paintings and painting of Stephen's Green (Dublin: Kildare Street and University Club 2003). Ragon, Michel, 50 Ans d'Art Vivant (Fayard: Paris 2001). Read, Herbert, Contemporary British Art (London: Penguin Books 1951). Read, Herbert, A concise History of Painting (London: Thames & Hudson 1959). Read, Herbert, Art since 1945 (London: Thames & Hudson 1959). Read, Herbert, A Letter to a Young Painter (London: Thames & Hudson 1962). Rice, Adrian, Angela Reid, eds., A conversation Piece, Poetry and Art (Belfast: MAGNI, Abbey Press, 2002). Reeners, Roberta, ed., a byer's guide to irish art (Dublin: Ashville Media Group 1999). Second Edition, Jane Humphries, ed., 2001 - Third & Fourth Edition, Meg Walker, ed., 2003 2004. Robert, Dictionnaire Universel de la Peinture (Paris: Ed. Robert 1986). Rouane, Frances, AIB Art; AIB Art 2, A selection from the AIB Collection of Modern Art (Dublin: AIB Group 1995, 2002). Rouane, Frances, Art at the Merrion (Dublin: Merrion 2001). Russell, John, From Sickert to 1948 (London: Lund Humphreys 1948). Sakai, Tadayasu Portraits of Unique Painters (Tokyo: Keibun-Sha 1991). Seuphor, Michel, La Peinture Abstraite (Paris: Flamarion,1961). Sharpe, Henry J., Art History and Appreciation (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1976). Skira Annual, L'Oeuvre Unique, 'Henri Michaux, Louis le Brocquy' (Geneva: Skira 1977). Skira Annuel, Art Actuel (Geneva: Skira 1977). Snoddy, Theo, Dictionary of Irish Artists, 20th Century, 2nd edition (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2003). Thorn Petit, Lilianne., Portraits d'Artistes, tome II (Luxembourg: RTL Editions 1987). Thiessen, Gesa E., Theology and Modern Irish Art (Dublin: Columba Press 1999). Turner, Jane, The Dictionary of Art (London: Macmillan; New York: Grove Dictionaries 1996). Van Wilder, F., Artprice Annual (Paris: Editions Thierry Ehrmann 2004). Walker, Dorothy, L'Imaginaire Irlandais, 'L'Art Irlandais au XXe Siècle' (Paris: AFAA, Editions Hazan, 1996). Walker, Dorothy, Modern Art in Ireland (Dublin: Lilliput-Press 1997). Walker, Meg, ed., a byer's guide to irish art (Dublin Ashville Media Group 2003 2004). Welch, Robert, Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (Oxford: O.U.P. 1995). Wildbur, Peter, A Handbook of International Design (London: Zwemmer 1966). Wildbur, Peter, International Trademark Designs (London: Barrie & Jenkins 1979). Windsor, Alan, ed., Modern British Painting and Printmaking 1900 - 1990 (Hants: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. England 1998). Wyndham, Henry, Sotheby's Art at Auction 1999-2000 (London: Sotheby's 2000). BOOK COVERS & FRONTISPIECES Cover illustrations unless specified. Augustini, René, Mythes, Croyances et Religions (Avignon: Université 1997). Barritt, Denis, The Northern Ireland Problem (Oxford, New York: O.U.P. 1972). Burgess, Anthony, James Joyce (New York, London: W.W. Norton & Co. 1994). Cahill, Kevin M, A Bridge to Peace (New York: Haymarket Dogma 1988). Cahill, Kevin M, Irish Essays, Batsford, London; John Jay Press, New York 1980. Cahill, Kevin M, The Open Door (Dublin: Royal College of Surgeons 1994). Cahill, Kevin M, ed., The Recorder (New York: American- rish Historical Society 1999-2003). Cookson, William, Peter Dale, eds., 'Seamus Heaney Fiftieth Birthday Issue' Agenda (London: Poets and Painters Press 1989) [frontis]. Davidson, Philip W., Vee P. Prasher, Matthew P. Janicki, eds., Mental Health, Intellectual Disabilities and the Aging Process (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing 2003). Eide, Marian; Rachel DeWachter ed., Ethical Joyce (Cambridge: University Press 2002). Ellman, Richard, Four Dubliners, Yoshitaka Iritani, trans., (Tokyo: Iwanari Shoten 1993). English, Isobel, Every Eye (Persephone Books Ltd, London 2001) [endpapers]. Fallon, Peter, Miscellany of Contemporary Irish Writing (Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press 1980). Fassin, Laurent ed., Les écrivains de la conscience européenne (France: Editions Légendes 1997) [Further illustrated inside]. Foster, R. F., W.B. Yeats: A Life. II. The Arch -Poet (Oxford: O.U.P. 2003). Genet, Jacqueline, William Butler Yeats, Explorations (Lille: CERIUL Presses Universitaires 1981). Genet, Jacqueline, La Poétique de W.B. Yeats (Lille: CERIUL Presses Universitaires 1989). Gilligan, Oscar, ed., Jurgen Schneider, Sotscheck sub-eds., The Birminham Six: an apalling vista. An international anthology of support by 55 writers and artists (Dublin: LiterEire Publishers 1990), illustrated on cover. Also hardback (limited ed. 100), signed by le Brocquy, Seamus Heaney, Seamus Deane, Paul Durcan, Patrick Galvin, Thomas Kinsella and Francis Stuart Harmon, Maurice, The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella (Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1974). Heaney, Seamus, Anything Can Happen, after Horace, Odes 1, 34 (Dublin: Art for Amnesty 2003) [frontis] 1st edition. Limited to 10 handbound copies. Hederman, M. P., Richard Kearney, eds., The Crane Bag (Dublin 1977-1987). Hederman, M. P., Richard Kearney, eds., The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies (Dublin: Blackwater Press) [Further frontis and tailpiece]. Heaney, Seamus, New Selected Poems 1966-1987 (London: Faber & Faber 1990). Hughes, Ted, An Anthology for Shakespeare (London: Bishopsgate Press 1988) [Further illustrated inside]. Joannon, Pierre, ed. Etudes Irlandaises (France: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion 1976-2002). Kennelly, Brendan, The Man Made of Rain (Newcastle on Tyre: Bloodaxe Books 1998). Laverty, Maura, Kind Cooking, incl. section on Diet by Sybil Le Brocquy (London: Longmans 1946 - published abroad as Maura Laverty's Cookery Book (NY&Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co. 1947) [Further chapter heading illustrations]. Le Brocquy, Sybil, Cadenus & Swift's Most Valyable Friend (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003) [also frontis]. Lynch, John (Jack), Taoiseach, All Irish Traditions (Mountrath, Co. Laois: Dolmen Press 1970). Mathews, Aidan Carl, ed., Immediate Man. Cuimhní ar Chearbhaill Ó Dálaigh (Mountrath, Co. Laois: The Dolmen Press 1983) [frontis] 1st edition. Limited to 125 numbered copies, signed by editor. Montague, John, A Chosen Light (London: Macgibbon & Kee 1967) [also frontis]. Montague, John, Selected Poems (London: Macgibbon & Kee 1982) [also frontis]. Montero, Gomez, Enterro de Garcia Lorca (Grenade 1979). Murray, Christopher, Samuel Beckett 100 years, RTE The 2006 Thomas Davis Lectures (Dublin: New Island 2006). Nagashima, Kaku, tr., Samuel Beckett. Worstward Ho, Stirrings Still, Comment Dire (Tokyo: Shoshi-Yamada publisher UNI Agency Inc. 2000) [frontis]. Noonan Walsh, Patricia; Tamar Heller, eds., Health of Women with Intellectual Disabilities (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing 2002). O'Connor, Frank, The Art of the Theatre (Dublin, London: Maurice Fridberg 1947) [frontis]. Redshaw, Thomas Dillon, ed., Hill Field; poems and memoirs for John Montague on his sixtieth birthday (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press: Oldcastle: Gallery Books 1989) [frontis]. 1st edition. Limited to 26 lettered copies. Contribs. incl. Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and Thomas Kinsella. Smith, Michael, Maldon & Other Translations [Version from the Old English] (Dublin / Exeter: New Writers' Press / Shearsman Books 2003) [also frontis]. Tubridy, Derval, The Peppercanister Poems, Thomas Kinsella (Dublin: University College Press 2001). Vee P. Prasher, Matthew P. Janicki, eds., Physical Health of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing 2002). Yeats, W.B., A Vision (Paris: Editions Fayard 1979).

Carros, 1999, photograph © Perry Ogden