Le Brocquy’s early masterpiece acquired by National Gallery by Medb Ruane
The after shocks of World War Two were still sending tremors through culture and society when Louis Le Brocquy made his historic painting, The Family. Developed in faux-Cubist style, this bleak, powerful work features a woman, a man, a child, and a tigerish cat who share a pictorial space worlds away from any sense of community
The National Library of Ireland recently acquired an album of thirty-six watercolours and prints made by James Cavanah Murphy in Portugal between 1789 and 1790. Michael McCarthy recalls the career and travels of this unusual draughtsman
The Smurfit Art Collection spans three continents and contains some of the best 20th-century Irish art. Ciaran MacGonical reviews a new catalogue of the collection