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1939
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Embarks on the First Works.
Work purchased by Haverty Trust for the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin.
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1940
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Contributed Madrid at Geneva, Dublin Magazine, September.
Made a series of surgical drawings of Pituitary region of the brain for medical text books.
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1941
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Work purchased for Ulster Museum, Belfast, painted at 13 Merrion Row, Dublin (Paul Henry's old studio).
Set and costume designs for Dublin Drama League, Gate Theatre.
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1942
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Set and costume designs for Giraudoux' Amphitryon 38, Olympia Theatre, Dublin. The painting Spanish Shawl, Study in White rejected by R.H.A. Caused Dublin controversy.
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1943
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Further painting rejected by R.H.A. Founder-member, with Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone, of Irish Exhibition of Living Art. Refused important portrait commission. Designed stained glass, murals for pubs, theatre sets and costumes. Lectured on color inter-relation to the Dublin University Experimental Science Association.
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1944
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Studied Megalithic engravings by candle light at Newgrange, County Meath, Ireland.
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1945
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Radio Eireann debate with Sean Keating, P.R.H.A., on contemporary painting.
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Visited Mayo, Connemara, Achill and the Midlands encountering the Travelling People.
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Began Traveller series of paintings.
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1946
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Contemporary Art Society purchased work for The Tate Gallery, London, England.
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Joined Gimpel Fils Gallery.
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1947
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Visiting Teacher in Painting and Mural design at Central School of Arts & Crafts, London.
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First exhibition with Gimpel Fils, London.
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1948
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Joined Graham Sutherland and Stanley Spencer in designing tapestries for Edinburgh Weavers.
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1951
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Began Family series of paintings. Official donation of A Family, rejected by Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin.
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1952
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Designed Eden series of tapestries. A Family caused Dublin controversy.
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1953
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Designed large mosaics for College of Further Education, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.
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1954
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Engraved 'Megalithic' murals, Comprehensive School, Tulse Hill, London.
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Visiting Tutor, Textile School, Royal College of Art, London.
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1955
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Commissioned by Ambassador Magazine, London, toured Spain noting impressions for textile designs.
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1956
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Contributed Thoughts on our Time and Jean Lurcat, Art 17, Royal College of Art, London.
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Represents Ireland at the Venice Bienale, Venice, Italy. A Family awarded a major prize.
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1957
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Began Presence series of paintings.
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1958
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Work included in the historic exhibition Fifty Years of Modern Art, World Fair, Brussels.
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1959
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Work purchased by the Tate Gallery, London.
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1960
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Elected Fellow of The Society of Industrial Artists in recognition of his contribution to industrial design.
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1962
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Joined the Dawson Gallery, Dublin.
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Awarded Honorary Litt. D., University of Dublin.
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1963
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Destroyed about forty paintings, a year's work.
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Member, Irish Council of Design.
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1964
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Began Ancestral Head series of paintings.
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Discovery of Polynesian decorated skulls at the Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France.
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1965
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Discovery of Celto-Ligurian culture of Entremont & Roquepertuse.
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1966
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50th year. Retrospective exhibition, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin.
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1968
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Paintings of Celto-Ligurian Entremont.
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1969
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Lithographic illustrations for Thomas Kinsella's Tain, commissioned by Liam Miller, Dolmen Press, Dublin.
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1970
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First images of his father. Commission, The Hosting of the Tain, Aubusson Tapestry, 407 x 610 cm.
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1972
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Began Cuchulainn series of tapestries.
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1974
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Long series of landscape watercolors, initiated by first regular visits to Beara Peninsula, West Cork, Ireland.
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1975
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Commission, aquatint for Nobel Prize Portfolio, Börjeson, Malmö, Sweden. Began series Images of W.B. Yeats.
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Made Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.
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1976
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First museum exhibition in France, Louis le Brocquy, A la Recherche de W.B. Yeats. Cent Portraits Imaginaires, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
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1977
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Made seven bronze Foreheads of Lorca at Michaelucci Foundry, Montecatini, Italy.
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Series: Images of James Joyce.
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1978
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Lectured at University of Toronto on his paintings and its sources.
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Series: Images of Lorca.
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1979
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First images of Francis Bacon. Notes on Painting and Awareness, lecture in symposium, Corps, Poésie, Peinture, Faculté des Lettres, Université de Nice, France.
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Series: Images of Samuel Beckett.
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1980
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Series: Images of Seamus Heaney.
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1981
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Series: Images of Shakespeare. Collotype lithographs for Eight Irish Writers, edited by Andrew Carpenter, Dublin.
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Museum exhibition in the U.S.A. Louis le Brocquy and the Celtic Head Image, New York State Museum, Albany.
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1982
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International group of artists form Artists against Apartheid. Contributed Image of Nelson Mandela.
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1983
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1984
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Embarks on Procession series.
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1986
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Lithographs for James Joyce's Dubliners, Dolmen Press, Dublin.
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1988
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Lithographs for Samuel Beckett's valedictory book, Stirrings Still, Blue Moon Books, New York; John Calder, London. Set and costume designs for Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett, Dir. Walter Azmus, Gate Theatre, Dublin.
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Awarded Honorary Ll. D., University College, Dublin.
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1990
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Illustration the poem Da tagte es by Samuel Beckett, The Great Book of Ireland.
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1991
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Retrospective in Japan, Louis le Brocquy, Images Single and Multiple, 1957-1990, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura.
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1994
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1996
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80th year. Retrospective exhibition, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Series: Human Images. Waiting for Godot, Gate Theatre production played at the Lincoln Center, New York.
Made Officier des Arts et des Lettres.
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1998
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First artist to receive the IMMA/Glen Dimplex Lifetime Achievement Award for a sustained contribution to the arts in Ireland, conferred by President Mary Robinson.
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1999
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Hon. D. Ph., Dublin City University.
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2000
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Record sale of painting at auction, marking him as the fourth artists in these islands, with Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and David Hockney to break the ₤1m barrier in their lifetime. Inverted series, Aubusson tapestries from 1948-52, Atelier René Duché. The Táin series, Aubusson tapestries, Atelier René Duché.
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2001
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Made Officier of the Belgian Ordre de la Couronne.
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2002
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A Family, acquired by National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, making him the first living artist to be included in the Permanent Irish Collection of the NGI.
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Awarded Hon. D. Univ., Queen's University, Belfast.
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2003
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The National Gallery of Ireland celebrates the opening of the National Portrait Collection with the unveiling of a specially commissioned Image of Bono, 20 October 2003.
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2004
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Awarded Hon. D. Ph., Dublin Institute of Technology, 2004.
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2006
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90th birthday celebrations. 10 one-person exhibitions and numerous events are organized in France, England and Ireland including Gimpel Fils, London; Tate, London; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, Paris; Hunt Museum, Limerick; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin; Crawford City Gallery, Cork; Taylor Galleries, Dublin.
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Awarded Hon. Associate, NCAD, Dublin.
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2007
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Freedom of the City of Dublin.
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