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STUDY FOR RIVERRUN: PROCESSION WITH LILIES, 1984 Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012)
Signature: signed with initials and dated lower right; signed, dated, titled and numbered [521] on reverse; with typed Taylor Galleries label on reverse Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 14¾ x 18in. (37.47 x 45.72cm) Provenance: With Taylor Galleries, Dublin, 1985; Private collection Exhibited: Literature: Dublin: Taylor Galleries, Louis le Brocquy Procession with Lilies and other new work, 27 March to 25 April 1985. Interview by Ann Cremin, extract from 'Louis le Brocquy now', Social & Personal, Dublin, December 1984 A 1939 news clipping was to inspire Louis le Brocquy to create a painting of children, entitled Procession With Lilies, over twenty years later in 1962 and a series of paintings in 1984-1992 entitled... d Procession. Dorothy Walker1 notes: 'The image of these jeunes filles en fleur (et aux fleurs) has been simmering in the artist's mind since 1939 when a friend in Dublin sent him, to France where he was then living, a newspaper cutting from the Evening Herald showing a group of young girls in white First Communion dresses, coming around a corner, laughing and carrying white lilies. The caption to the photograph was "Schoolgirls returning from Church after the blessing of the Lilies on the Feast of St Anthony." The present work is described by the artist as a study for the larger works in the series but it is a fully finished painting and was executed in the same manner as the others in the series. Peter Murray2 writes: "The oil studies certainly show le Brocquy's interest in the use of pure patches of colour - reds, yellows and blues -on a white or off-white background. The paint is dragged, pulled, thinned with turpentine, and applied in washes, almost like watercolour. The figures of the girls are depicted in a state of immanence, emerging from and receding into the background, a sense of procession conveyed by complex dancing brushstrokes." Louis le Brocquy writes 3 "These paintings are centrally concerned with what I might describe as the mystery of time" and "In the case of the Procession With Lilies, to do with an instant in an event which occurred years ago within a succession of present moments". 1. Dorothy Walker Louis le Brocquy Ward River Press, Dublin 1981. 2. Peter Murray Louis le Brocquy Procession catalogue for exhibition at Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, and Taylor Galleries, Dublin, 2003. In a letter to Peter Murray, September 2003. ABSTRAC more