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A tribute to one of Ireland's most important painters.

Anne Madden is one of Ireland's foremost contemporary painters. Of Irish/Anglo-Chilean origin, she is also highly regarded in France where, with her husband, artist Louis le Brocquy, she has spent much of the last forty years. This book presents a selection of her works from the 1960s to the present, which can be found in the collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, accompanied by the text of a lecture entitled "Painting and Reality" which the artist gave as part of the IMMA Winter Lecture, in 2007.

Born in Dublin in 1916, Louis le Brocquy's paternal grandfather came to Ireland from Belgium. His mother was a well-known figure in Dublin's artistic life and, encouraged by her, Louis left the family business to become a painter. In 1947 le Brocquy established himself in London as a self-taught artist of considerable originality. In 1958 he married the young Irish painter, Anne Madden, the author of this book. They live and work in France and Ireland.