Anne Madden
Anne Madden is particularly well known in both Ireland and France where she has divided her time for the past forty years. Of Irish and Anglo-Chilean origin, she spent her first years in Chile. In 1958 she married the Irish painter Louis Le Brocquy and moved to the south of France. From the 1960s she began to paint a series of abstract landscapes influenced by her time as a young girl in the west of Ireland, near the Burren in Co Clare. Between 1970 and 1979 Madden painted a large series of vertical works, their size determined by her height and reach. Reflecting on life and death, the works derived from megaliths and other prehistoric monuments. In the 1980s Madden stopped painting for a time and devoted herself to drawing, this resulted in a series of large works in graphite and oil paint on paper. Madden then returned to painting on canvas and has continued to develop and produce a large body of work.
Madden has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions and her work is represented in many public collections. In 1965 she represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale and exhibited at ROSC '84. Solo exhibitions include …
Anne Madden is particularly well known in both Ireland and France where she has divided her time for the past forty years. Of Irish and Anglo-Chilean origin, she spent her first years in Chile. In 1958 she married the Irish painter Louis Le Brocquy and moved to the south of France. From the 1960s she began to paint a series of abstract landscapes influenced by her time as a young girl in the west of Ireland, near the Burren in Co Clare. Between 1970 and 1979 Madden painted a large series of vertical works, their size determined by her height and reach. Reflecting on life and death, the works derived from megaliths and other prehistoric monuments. In the 1980s Madden stopped painting for a time and devoted herself to drawing, this resulted in a series of large works in graphite and oil paint on paper. Madden then returned to painting on canvas and has continued to develop and produce a large body of work.
Madden has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions and her work is represented in many public collections. In 1965 she represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale and exhibited at ROSC '84. Solo exhibitions include RHA Gallagher Galleries, Dublin, 1991, Château de Tours Municipal Art Gallery, France, 1997, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin, 1997, Taylor Galleries, Dublin, 2005, and Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, 2005. The Irish Museum of Modern Art exhibited a retrospective of Madden's work in 2007.
Courtesy of Irish Museum of Modern Art
Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Carros, France
Centre National d’Art Contemporain Georges Pompidou, Paris
Contemporary Art Society, London
Contemporary Irish Arts Society, Dublin
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Provence–Alpes–Côte d’Azur, France
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Musée Picasso, Antibes
National Portrait Collection, Ireland
Neuberger Museum, New York
The Ulster Museum, Belfast