2012
Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter and illustrator (born 1916)
Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter and illustrator (born 1916)
Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter and illustrator (born 1916)
Louis le Brocquy
Irish painter (1916–2012)
- Died
- 2012
Louis le Brocquy HRHA was an Irish painter born in Dublin to Albert and Sybil le Brocquy. Louis' sister is the sculptor Melanie Le Brocquy. His work received many accolades in a career that spanned some seventy years of creative practice. In 1956, he represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale, winning the Premio Acquisito Internationale with A Family, subsequently included in the historic exhibition Fifty Years of Modern Art Brussels, World Fair 1958. The same year he married the Irish painter Anne Madden and left London to work in the French Midi.