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21-10-03 news EXCLUSIVE WITH PHOTOS
That Painting is the Image of Bono...

Once the artist now the subject, U2 singer Bono was immortalised last night by the National Gallery commissioned painter Louis le Brocquy in a portrait "Image of Bono."

"Image of Bono"

Last night the National Gallery of Ireland unveiled its specially commissioned oil portrait of Bono "Image of Bono" by Ireland's most important living painter, Louis le Brocquy.

Bono at the National Gallery

The painting is the fifth in a series of portraits commissioned for the Irish National Portrait Collection. It will be on display to the public from October 21, 2003 in the National Gallery.

Bono at the National Gallery

This honour comes hot on the heals of Bono launching his own set of paintings of Peter and the Wolf aided by his two young daughters for the Irish hospice foundation.

Bono hugs Louis le Brocquy

Referring to his work, Louis le Brocquy said: "In the past, I have painted an extensive series of interiorised head images of artists such as Samuel Beckett and Francis Bacon, WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney whom I see as extraordinary instances of human consciousness."

He went on: "In more recent years, I have made a number of similar studies of Bono, whose spirit and whose radiant energy I admire so much. But a painting destined for the National Portrait Gallery presents a different challenge; to make a recognisable image of Bono's outward appearance, while attempting to portray what I conceive to be the wavelengths of his inner dynamism."

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