Background
LE, Louis was born on November 10, 1916 in Dublin. Son of the late Albert le Brocquy and Sybil de Lacy Staunton.
LE, Louis was born on November 10, 1916 in Dublin. Son of the late Albert le Brocquy and Sybil de Lacy Staunton.
Saint Gerard’s School, Wicklow.
Fondation Maeght, 1973, Musee Doctorate’Art Modeme, Paris 1976, New York State Museum 1981, Boston 1982, Palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi 1982, Arts Council, Dublin 1987, Ulster Museum 1987, aegis National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane 1988, Musee Picasso, Antibes 1989, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris 1990, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, City Museum of Art, Osaka, City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima 1990; Premio Prealpina, Venice Biennale 1956; illustrated The Tain (translated Kinsella) 1969, The Playboy of the Western World (Synge) 1970, The Gododdin (translated O’Grady) 1978, Dubliners (Joyce) 1986; Stirrings Still (Samuel Beckett) 1988; Chevalier, Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur"honneur 1974.Founder member, Irish Exhibition of Living Art 1943. Visiting Instructor, Central School of Arts and Crafts, London 1947-1954. Visiting Tutor, R.C.A., London 1955-1958.
Director Kilkenny Design Workshops 77.
Director Irish Museum of Modem Art since 1989. Exhibits in Albright Museum, Buffalo, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Detroit Institute, Hirshhom Museum, Washington, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Musee Picasso, Antibes, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Columbus Museum, Ohio, San Diego Museum, Tate Gallery, London.
Retrospective.
Irish Exhibition of Living Art 1943. Irish Council of Design 1963-1965.
Married 1st Jean Atkinson Stoney in 1938, one daughter. Married 2nd Anne MaddenSimpson in 1958, two son.