Indoors, Outdoors by Louis le Brocquy at James Adam. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.
A 1951 masterpiece by Louis le Brocquy “Indoors, Outdoors” is a feature lot at the James Adam sale of Irish art in Dublin on May 30. It is the most important work by le Brocquy to come to market since “Sick Tinker Child”, sold at Adams in 2006 for 820,000.
“Indoors, Outdoors” was the inspiration for “A Family”, the monumental work in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland (see post on antiquesandartireland.com for April 25). The two paintings formed part of a critically acclaimed exhibition by le Brocquy at Gimpel Fils in London in 1951. They were hung together again at the Venice Biennale in 1956.
By the time of Le Brocquy’s 1966 retrospective in the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin the picture belonged to Hollywood actress Dana Wynter who maintained a home in Wicklow. She later sold it before the current owner bought it at an auction in Adam’s in June 1989 where it fetched the then world record price for his work, IR£60,000 (€76,200). The estimate for the work now is 500,000. It is among over 60 paintings from the James Adam auction on show at the Ava Gallery, Clandeboye, Co. Down from May 9 to May 18.