Louis le Brocquy

Louis le Brocquy (born November 10, 1916) is an Irish painter.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, Louis le Brocquy is one of the foremost Irish painters of the twentieth century. Widely acclaimed for his evocative ‘Heads’ of literary figures and fellow artists, which include William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon and Seamus Heaney, in 1956, he represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale, winning the prestigious Premio Acquisto Internationale with A Family, subsequently included in the historic exhibition Fifty Years of Modern Art, Brussels World Fair 1958.

Honoured with museum retrospectives worldwide, his work is represented in numerous public collections, including the Guggenheim Museum, New York and the Tate, London. Exhibitions of his work have been held in museums in the United States, Japan, Australia, France, Spain, Belgium, Slovenia and Mexico. In Ireland, le Brocquy’s contribution to art over the past sixty five years was celebrated in a major retrospective at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 1996.

The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from the existing paintings.h

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