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Lot 1215
A George III mahogany elbow chair, in the Chippendale style with yoke shaped top rail, pierced splat back and outswept arms with shaped supports, the seat with serpentine front upholstered in a woolwork tapestry material and raised on legs of rectangular chamfered section united by stretchers.
Lot 79
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) Cherub (1951) Tapestry 49 x 61.5cm (19.25 x 24.25") Contained in a burr walnut firescreen frame Provenance: Mrs. S.H. Stead-Ellis; Taylor deVeres 30th September 1996, Catalogue No. 113, where purchased by current owner In 1951, the late Mrs S.H. Stead-Ellis commissioned Louis leBrocquy to design three related tapestry panels on the theme of Adam and Eve in the Garden: one for a 4-fold screen, one for an antique walnut firescreen and one for a wall-hanging. Two of these works are being offered here and both are unique. The wall-hanging was woven at Tabard Freres et Soeurs, Aubusson, France. A subsequent single wall-hanging was woven to the same scale, but a later edition of all three tapestries was woven to a large scale, with different colourways in the case of the firescreen 'Cherub', and the wall-hanging 'Women's Heel'. The theme with its archetypal imagery, is treated in a classic, even traditional, manner. Dorothy Walker September The design recalls the artists's 'apocalyptic' paintings of 1948-9. On the other hand, the revelation of the heart within the figure may be said to anticipate that anatomical insight of his later paintings which J.P. Wilhelm has called 'une intuition ultralucide du corps humain'. This small work completes the Eden series.
Lot 80
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) Eden (1951) Aubusson tapestry, 113 x 182cm (44.5 x 71.5) Atelier Tabard Frères & Soeurs Provenance: Mrs. S.H. Stead-Ellis; Taylor deVeres 30th September 1996, Catalogue No. 114, where purchased by current owner This singular composition is evidently based on a series of subdivisions of the Golden Mean. It is dominated by the serpent which appears and re-appears in a pattern of leaves, segmented apples and tears. The heel of the woman is asserted in its inset standing on the serpent.
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