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Lot 45
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) CHILD WITH DOLL, HOMMAGE À JANKEL ADLER, 1949 lithograph; (no. 6 from an edition of 20) signed and numbered lower left 30½ x 20½in. (77.47 x 52.07cm) Collection of George and Maura McClelland The original watercolour and carbon drawing, Child with Doll, sold at Whyte's, 28 April 2008, as lot 53. Child with Doll was made in London in January 1949, at a crucial point in the development of Louis le Brocquy's art. Created between his celebrated Traveller paintings and the Grey Period works, of which A Family, 1951 (National Gallery of Ireland), is the best-known example, Child with Doll includes elements of both series. In form, the ragged toddler who trots along while embracing a smiling doll is reminiscent of the Traveller children who hang on their mother's skirts in paintings such as Tinkers Enter the City, 1947, and Tinkers Break Whitethorn, 1947. Yet in setting and theme Child with Doll presages many of the Grey Period works. Like A Family, Child in a Yard, 1953 (Dublin City Gallery: The Hugh Lane), and several of the other paintings that le Brocquy exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1956, this image features a child whose humanity is contrasted with its stark surroundings. Dating from the post-war period when atomic catastrophe seemed a very real threat, these works combine the existential angst that dominated the work of le Brocquy's friend, Francis Bacon, with a humanistic celebration of the innocence of youth. Writing in 1950, James White suggested that the toddler in Child with Doll was based on the figure of a girl hugging a doll in The Fair at Bray Head, 1949 (see Lot 146). White wrote that, "the child became ... charged with a meaning of its own as a symbol of the lost children of Europe, wandering through a cruel world with wonder and only half-understanding". When it was recreated as a separate work (Child with Doll), the doll remained with it, as a symbol of yet another future generation that these children carry with them. In short, the child with doll is a parable of recurrent life, springing up through the ruins as fireweed grows on the rubble of a bombed house". (1) Le Brocquy has recalled how he heard of the horrors of the Holocaust first hand from his friend, the French-Jewish art dealer Charles Gimpel. Both the Traveller series and the stark interiors of the Grey Period works have been related to the multitudes of refugees displaced during World War II and its aftermath. (2) The connections between Child with Doll and the horrors of war are strengthened by an inscription on the verso of the original work which reads Homage À Jankel Adler. Born in 1895 into an Orthodox Jewish community in Poland, Adler made his home in Germany until the rise of National Socialism forced him to flee, firstly to France, and then to London. Adler, whom le Brocquy met in London in 1947, soon became both a friend and an inspiration to the young Irish artist. Throughout his long and fruitful career, Louis le Brocquy often acknowledged his artistic influences by creating hommages to their work. While his last shows in Dublin and London included hommages to Velazquez, Goya, Manet and Cezanne, Child with Doll is both one of his earliest hommages and a transitional work that lies at an important crossroads between the Irish orbit of the Travellers and the international arena of the Grey Period.Dr Riann Coulter 1 James White, 'Contemporary Irish Artists (VI): Louis le Brocquy', Envoy, vol. 2, no. 6, Dublin, May 6, 1950, p. 59. 2 See for example Yvonne Scott, Louis le Brocquy Allegory and Legend, exhibition catalogue Hunt Museum, Limerick, 2006, p. 24 P
Lot 350
A German bisque-headed shoulder head doll with fixed blue eyes, open mouth and painted features, the head impressed 309.7, in white christening robe, 44cm, (17in.) high, a Kammer and Reinhardt bisque-headed doll with open and close blue eyes, open mouth and painted features, the head impressed K R, Simon & Halbig, 126, 49cm (19in.) high and another shoulder-headed doll, the head impressed 3095, 42cm (16.1/2in.) high (3)
Lot 353
A Heubach and Kopplesdorf bisque-headed baby with open and close blue eyes, open mouth, the head impressed Heubach Koppeldorf 400, Germany, 26cm (10in.) high, a bisque shoulder-headed doll, with fixed blue eyes and painted features and a Kammer and Reinhardt bisque-headed doll, with impressed head, missing an eye, 47cm (18in.) high (3)
Lot 361
A Gebruder Heubach bisque-headed doll with open and close blue eyes, open mouth and painted features, the head impressed 8192, Germany, Gebruder Heubach, G 2 H, 35cm (13.3/4in.) high, a Simon and Halbig bisque-headed doll with open and close brown eyes, impressed factory marks, 33cm (13in.) high, an Armand Marseille for Kopplesdorf bisque-headed doll with impressed factory marks, a German celluloid doll with turtle mark and a French doll on wheels, 54cm (21in.) high (5)
Lot 363
A Marmouri Brothers bisque-headed doll with open and close brown eyes, open mouth and painted features, the head impressed 2, MB, Japan, 11, dressed in sailor outfit, 46cm (18in.) high, a German bisque-head glancing eye doll, the head impressed Germany, 323, M.2/0.M, 27cm (10.1/2in.) high, An E.I. Horseman & Co composition head doll, 48cm (19in.) high and another composition doll, 48cm (19in.) high (4)
Lot 365
A Handwerck shoulder head bisque doll with open and close blue eyes, open mouth and painted features, the head impressed Made in Germany, H, 10/0, H with horseshoe mark, 36cm (14in.) high, A British National Doll, 41cm (16in.) high, a Kammer and Reinhardt bisque-headed doll, the head impressed Simon & Halbig, K & R, areas of damage and repair, 55cm (21.1/2in.) and a Dutch style soft toy by Pedigree, 33cm (13in.) high (4)
Lot 355
A German bisque-headed doll with fixed blue eyes, open mouth and painted features, the head impressed Germany, C, 2.1/2, with blue cape and bonnet, 39cm (15in.) high, a shoulder headed bisque doll with fixed blue eyes, open mouth and painted features, the head impressed 309.7, 46cm (18in.) high and another large bisque-headed doll with impressed head, 60cm high (3)
Lot 359
An Armand Marseille 390 bisque-headed doll with fixed blue eyes, open mouth and painted features, the head impressed AM, DEP, Made in Germany, 41cm, (16in.) high, another bisque-headed doll the head with impressed factory marks, 46cm (18in.) high, a bisque-headed hand doll and an Armand Marseille bisque-headed black doll with impressed factory marks (4)
Lot 356
An Armand Marseille 390 bisque-headed doll open and closed blue eyes, open mouth and painted features, the head impressed Made in Germany, Armand Marseille 390, DRGM, A7/0M, 24cm (9.1/2in.) high, two other Armand Marseille bisque-headed dolls, 38cm (15in.) and smaller, a JDK bisque-headed doll and a shoulder head by Recknagel, 24cm (9.1/2in.) and smaller (5)
Lot 233
An Armand Marseille composite headed baby doll with open close eyes, open mouth with two teeth showing, impressed mark to heard "AM Germany 351/4½K", with composite body and limbs, height 51cm, a bisque headed doll with open and close eyes, open mouth with four teeth showing, composite body and limbs, unmarked, height 50cm, and a Pedigree teddy with grey extremities and red and blue body and limb colour, with goggly eyes, height 30cm, all contained in a vintage suitcase.
Lot 235
A modern bisque headed doll with open glass eyes and composite articulated body and curly blonde hair, in a wedding dress with floral head adornment and matching bouquet, bearing spurious marks "FG" (for François Gaultier) to back of head, also with handwritten inscription "Lisa", height 40cm, on turned wooden base with glass dome.
Lot 234
An Armand Marseille bisque headed doll with open close eyes and open mouth revealing four teeth, with red hair, dress and matching bonnet, inscribed to back of head "Germany 390 A6 1/2M", a further similar German doll and an English composite newborn baby doll, also a knitted golly toy, all contained in a vintage suitcase (4). CONDITION REPORT: Large doll has no eyes but both bisque is ok. Just light surface wear. Golly is in very poor condition indeed.
Lot 3567
An Armand Marseille German bisque head girl doll, with weighted brown glass eyes, upper teeth, brown wig and on a fully jointed wood and composition body, in original clothing to include socks, shoes and silk gown (60 cm in length) and another Armand Marseille doll, similar with auburn wig and knitted outfit 46 cm in length (2)
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