Why a IR£650 le Brocquy work was a snip at IR£66,000

EIRE: BACK in May last year works by Dublin-born Louis le Brocquy (b.1916) entered the same price bracket as that of his compatriots like Yeats and Lavery when Sotheby’s took a record £1,050,000 (plus buyer’s premium) in London for his work entitled Travelling woman with newspaper.

So naturally when his important early oil Entrance of the Dark Wind (Khyber Pass, Dalkey 1942) came …

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