Adam's The Antoinette and Patrick J.Murphy Collection 23rd October 2019

58 42 BRIAN KING (B.1942) Head of James Joyce (Study from the Death Mask) Bronze, 43cm high (17”) (including base) Signed Edition 6/11 Formerly on loan to the OPW, Farmleigh House, Phoenix Park, Dublin, for circa twenty years. € 1,000 - 1,500 The portrait of James Joyce featured here demonstrates King’s prolonged interest in the work of the author. This was first manifest in an exhibition that took place in Dublin’s Project Arts Centre in 1981 entitled Riverrun , the title of which was taken from the first line of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake . The following year, King produced a wall- based work into which he incorporated soil taken from Joyce’s grave in Zürich. Pádraic E. Moore, August 2019.