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Lot 73
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) THE TÁIN. CÚCHULAINN IN WARP SPASM, 1969 Aubusson tapestry; (no. 2 from an edition of 9) signed and numbered on label on reverse 72½ x 50½in. (184.15 x 128.27cm) Taylor Galleries, Dublin;Private collection Louis le Brocquy was living in France with his young family when he received a life-changing invitation, in December 1966. Publisher Liam Miller wanted him to collaborate with Thomas Kinsella on a new translation of Ireland's oldest saga. Le Brocquy penned an enthusiastic affirmative that Christmas Eve and spent much of the next three years visualising An Táin Bó Cúailgne. In September 1969, Dolmen Press published it as The Táin.The Táin was born of some eighty stories about the Ulaidh, a prehistoric people who lived in the north and north-western regions of what is now called Ireland. Part epic, part soap opera, the tales were vivid, vicious, inconsistent and often rather rude. Oral versions survived for long enough to be collected by scribes, whose fragmentary manuscripts are now in Trinity College and the Royal Irish Academy. Translators and writers such as Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats had retold some of the Cúchulainn tales - and Joyce's Finnegans Wake drew on its meandering style - but Thomas Kinsella's Táin was the first widely-accessible version, especially when Oxford University Press' 1970 paperback followed the de luxe and limited editions produced by Dolmen Press. The Táin marked a unique cultural moment, for Ireland and the world. The State had just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising and was driving ahead with Seán Lemass' Second Programme for Economic Expansion. By 1969 when it was published, Northern Ireland was in conflict, and global events such as the Prague Spring, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, as well as wars in Vietnam, Angola and elsewhere, underlined its themes of invasion and carnage. Meanwhile, The Beatles sang "All You Need is Love." Its impact was instant. Although characters like Cúchulainn and Ferdia, Medb and Aillil, were local, the collaborators translated them into a crisply contemporaneous style that resonated through the cultural hierarchy. It engaged lovers of art, language, music and Celtic studies, as well as popular culture. The Táin became an Irish Iliad, with Cúchulainn as a Superhero reincarnating to a new age of rock, cartoons and animation.The images le Brocquy called 'shadows thrown by the text' became so iconic that it is almost impossible now to imagine The Táin differently. Yet no one had visualised the full saga previously and no artist from Ireland had engaged so thoroughly with pieces of writing in so collaborative a way. Le Brocquy made hundreds of drawings, many of which appear in the de luxe and limited editions, with a handful printed in the paperback and a precious twenty in these tapestries. Communication was difficult in those pre-digital days because he was in France and Miller was in Dublin, so that many key design decisions relied on sending letters through the post.Le Brocquy's innovative, daring approach cast the saga as a virtual alphabet composed of spontaneous, inky letters. The present work, Cúchulainn's Warp Spasm, speaks both of calligraphic marks from Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Yves Klein's bodily-marked Anthropometries, as well as cave paintings traced by prehistoric peoples.The translation into tapestry, via le Brocquy's Táin lithographs, crested on the momentum from oral to written traditions, from drama to poetry and from visual culture to music. Duché's subtly-textured cottons and wools freed le Brocquy's black-on-white marks into a textured, sensual material that illuminates the sense of a blot or stain without definite edges, which is what he wanted. Here, the statuesque shapes let le Brocquy grow the book's relatively modest scale into a life-affirming series of interconnected images that speak to each other like letters in a phrase or Medb Ruane,April 2012. [Abridged note reprinted from Whyte's Important Irish Art auction catalogue, May 2012]
Lot 297
The Beatles - A quirky hand made doll, the purple felt top embroidered with a treble clef and the names of the band members Paul, John George and Ringo, green felt legs, crocheted arms, 32cm high; together with a mostly hand sewn stuffed fabric doll of a girl in traditional German / Austro-Hungarian garb, the brown felt hat with two leather hearts attached along with the remnants of a feather, embroidered green velvet waistcoat, 37cm high (faults)
Lot 522
7' Singles - 50's & 60's Bob Dylan - one two many mornings EP - CBS 6070 Roy Harper 1974 promo-PSR 407 Referendum/ Another Day Traffic - round the Mulberry Bush WIP-6025 - with eye P/S Dave Dee Dozy etc Loos Of England - TE 17488 Little Richard - Baby - HLU 9065 Beatles - I Feel Fine x 2 Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love Billy Fury - Margo - 11128 -Tri Little Richard-Baby Face -8770-Tri Ike and Tina Turner Show - WEP 619 - Ps Four Tops - Do What You Gotta Do Wayne Fontana - Little Darling Rolling Stones - Get off of my Cloud David Bowie - Life on Mars P.J.Proby - EP - LEP 2192 mono
Lot 72
A rare Beatle's Apple boutique purple embossed velvet bolero, 1967-68, colourful woven apple motif label; together with an Apple rainbow coloured velvet jacket with glazed cotton printed lining, un-labelled, busts approx 92-97cm, 36-38in (2) Provenance: originally worn by model Danae Brooks, whom Vidal Sassoon created his famous 'Five Point' hairstyle on in 1964. The Apple boutique opened on 94 Baker Street in December 1967 and closed just 7 months later in July 1968, having lost more than £100,000 in trading during that time. The night before the shop closed, The Beatles selected pieces for themselves to wear and the next morning opened the doors to crowds massing outside and in true hippie spirit, told the waiting public to just help themselves to the rest. Paul McCartney said of it 'The nice thing was that we weren't too fussed when it didn't work out (...) It was great: giving the clothes to people who showed up on the day' (The Beatles Anthology, Cassell & Co, 2000, p296). CONDITION REPORT: Good condition. Both have creases to velvet at underarms from wear, minor. Rainbow jacket has 4cm split in velvet along left shoulder seam, could be repaired.
Lot 136
Oz Magazine 8 (Jan 1968) Double issue with misspelt Che 'Geuvara' poster and scarce Yoko Ono Film No 4 exhibition flyer. Articles include 'Underworld Confidential: World Wide Exclusive by Andy Warhol and 'The Stones, The Beatles and Spyder Turner's Raunch Epistemology' by Richard Meltzer [nm]
Lot 151
Oz Magazine 27 (Apr 1970). Acid Oz - Sex Fair Special. Robert Crumb cover. Mickey Mouse 'Acid is good for you' double page graphic by Martin Sharp. Playpower in Pornoland. The Wooton report on LSD. History of Teen Idols and Teenybop - the American pre-Beatles era. Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Steve Miller Band LP reviews [vfn]
Lot 153
BEATLES THE: An excellent set of four individual signatures (two with inscriptions) by each of The Beatles on a page removed from an autograph album, comprising John Lennon (‘John Lennon xx’), Paul McCartney (‘To Evelyn, love Paul McCartney’), George Harrison (‘To Evelyn love from George Harrison’) and Ringo Starr (‘Ringo Starr’). All have signed in bold blue inks. A couple of very small, minor stains to the edges of the page, not affecting the signatures. VG
Lot 154
MCCARTNEY PAUL: (1942- ) English Singer & Songwriter, a member of The Beatles. Blue ink signature ('All the best! Paul McCartney') to the verso of a colour picture postcard of Fanhams Hall in Ware, Hertfordshire. Also signed and inscribed by Linda McCartney (1941-1998) American Musician & Photographer, first wife of Paul McCartney. Some very light, extremely minor corner creasing, VGProvenance: According to information supplied by the vendor, the signatures of Paul and Linda McCartney were obtained in person by her at a chance meeting with the former Beatle and his wife at Ashford train station in Kent in late 1976 or early 1977. The only item the vendor had to hand which was appropriate for signing was the present postcard of Fanhams Hall which, at the time, was the headquarters of the Chartered Building Societies Institute and where the vendor would teach residential courses. During their conversation, Linda enquired about the vendor's young children, adding their names as an inscription.
Lot 155
MCCARTNEY PAUL: (1942- ) British Musician, a member of The Beatles. Two individual short strips of film cell (each of four frames) from the film A Hard Day's Night, matted in black either side of a colour postcard promoting the soundtrack album of the same name by The Beatles, framed and glazed (perspex) in a plain black frame to an overall size of 11 x 9. Signed ('Cheers! Paul McCartney') in bold black ink to the perspex. Some very light, extremely minor surface abrasions to the perspex, otherwise VG
Lot 111
Various Records including The Official Beatles Fan Club Third Christmas Record flexidisc with newsletter No;6 Christmas 1965; Danish issues of Ticket to Ride and Twist and Shout; Export issues of Hey Jude/Revolution, Elvis Presley King of the Whole Wide World and Jeff Beck Tallyman; together with assorted of 45rpm singles
Lot 448
The Beatles - A collection of vinyl records all relating to The Beatles to include With The Beatles, Help, A Hard Days Night, Beatles For Sale, Revolver, Rubber Soul, Please Please Me, Hey Jude ( American Issue ), !962 - 1966 ( Red Album ) on red vinyl and The Beatles Live At The Hollywood Bowl.
Lot 463
A collection of The Beatles and John Lennon vinyl long play / LP's records to include Beatles For Sale, Sgt Peppers, 1967 - 1970 / blue album X 2, 1962 - 1966 / red album, The Beatles Beat, Silver Beatles, The White Album No 0191165 top opening, Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, Oldies, The Beatles Ballard's, The John Lennon Collection, Double Fantasy, Shaved Fish and Milk and Honey.
Lot 469
A collection of 45rpm vinyl 7" singles from a private collection to include several artists such as Minnie Riperton, Donna Summer, Roger Daltry, The Drifters, David Bowie, Small Faces x 5, Otis Redding, The Who x Several, Stenie Wonder, John Lennon, Sonny and Cher, The Beach Boys, Four Tops, Rolling Stones x several, The Turtles, The Beatles x several, The Kinks x several, The Easybeats, The Yardbirds, Pink Floyd and many more.
Lot 472
A collection of long play LP's vinyl albums featuring several artists on various labels to include Donovan, David Bowie, Goddess Of Fortune, The Beatles x 31967 - 1970 ( on blue vinyl ) The White Album ( French ) and Sct Peppers, The Kinks, The Monkees, The Byrds, The Uncler Dirty Primer, The Rolling Stones, Strawbs
Lot 476
The Beatles - A collection of Beatles 7" vinyl records both EP's and singles to include Magical Mystery Tour ( Blue lyrics ), Nowhere Man EP, Let It Be EP, No1 EP, Twist and Shout EP, Long Tall Sally EP x2, Yesterday EP, The Beatles Hits EP all with picture sleeves, A Beatles 7" picture disc, and a selection of 7" singles by the Beatles.
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