Post War and Contemporary Irish Art

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Lot 29
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Melanie le Brocquy, H.R.H.A. b.1919

Estimate
3,500 - 4,500 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Melanie le Brocquy, H.R.H.A.
  • Spring and Summer
  • signed with initials and numbered AC 2
  • bronze with brown patina
  • height (including base): 29cm.; 11½in.

Exhibited

Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, Annual Exhibition, 2001, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue (another cast).

Catalogue Note

Executed in 2001 and cast in an edition of 6 with an artist's copy.

Spring and Summer sensitively refers to the two principal characters in the piece; the artist herself with her daughter intimately depicted leaning against the window of their car.