La Rencontre, 18 Mai 1922

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Micheal Farrell , Irish, 1940-2000

Title

Date1984

MediumEtching with aquatint on paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 59 × 88 cm

Signedlower right: Michael Farrell '84

Credit LinePresented, Ulster Bank Ireland DAC, 2022

Object numberNGI.2022.87

DescriptionThis print is part of a series entitled "Le Recontre" that Farrell began in the mid-1980s. The series explores the idea that Picasso and Joyce might have met in Paris in 1922. This expertly made etching and aquatint depicts an apocryphal meeting of three well-known figures of the cultral world: James Joyce, Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso. The imagined meeting is set in an interior, with elements that reference Dublin (Howth Head, depicted in the central etching hanging on the wall), Paris (the Eiffel Tower, visible through the window at left) and North Africa (represented by the camel at the centre of the composition)
Inscriptionlower left: [...]A La Rencontre 18 Mai 1922
ProvenancePresented, Ulster Bank Ireland DAC, 2022