BUY NEW MOVIE

Louis le Brocquy was born in Dublin on 10 November 1916, he was educated at St. Gerard's, Bray, Co. Wicklow; Kevin St. Technical School and Trinity College Dublin. He immersed himself in the works of Titian, Velazquez, Goya, Manet and particularly Rembrandt. In 1938, he left Ireland to study the major European art collections in London, Paris, Geneva and Venice. On his return to Dublin he co-founded the Irish Exhibition of Living Art which established an effective forum for contemporary art in Dublin. He moved to London in 1946, immersing himself in the contemporary art scene, he exhibited forty of his works the following spring at the Gimpel Fils Gallery. At this time he was working on his Tinker paintings, he progressed into his Grey Period which contemplated the bleak human condition in the aftermath of war. His depiction of the human condition becoming more isolated was central to his white period of the late fifties and early sixties. From 1964 he embarked on his Portrait Head Series which included portraits of WB Yeats, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Federico De Garcia Lorca, Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso. In 1988 he began an impressive succession of oil paintings, watercolours and lithographs which he called his Processions. He entered a new phase in his art from 1996, embarking on a body of work entitled Human Images which depicted humans floundering in an alienating world which they'll never comprehend. From 2005, the artist has painted a series entitled Homage to his Masters in which he pays homage to Velazquez, Goya, Cezanne and Manet.