Jesus Crucified by Edward Delaney.
Jesus Crucified by the Irish sculptor Edward Delaney (1930-2009) sold for 2,800 at James Adams in Dublin this week. It is a work in silvered alloy. Delaney is considered one of Ireland’s most important sculptors. Best known for public work like The Family and Wolfe Tone in St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, Edward Delaney was born in Claremorris, Co. Mayo and studied at the National College of Art and Design and received funding from the Art Council of Ireland to study casting in Germany.
Being by Louis le Brocquy.
At the same sale a work entitled Being by Louis le Brocquy (1916-2012) sold for 30,000 over a top estimate of 12,000. Signed, inscribed and dated 1957 Being forms part of a series of paintings began in 1957, under the umbrella title, Presences. The series is characterized by the dominant use of white, applied thickly, broken only by small, carefully considered areas of brilliant colour, and enriched by their own impastoed textures. Most, like Being, represent a single, haunting figurative presence. Le Brocquy, like many post-war artists was fearful of the destructiveness of nuclear weapons and his work revealed that sense of human fragility.