Happy Bloomsday!
Happy Bloomsday!
Happy Bloomsday to all Joycean scholars near and far. This portrait of James Joyce by Jacques Emile Blanche depicts Joyce seated relaxed, with his writing desk in the background. Befitting for this great modern writer the portrait is painted in the modern style. Joyce’s features and body shape are elongated to give a different view of the famous face. The painting s part of the National Gallery of Ireland’s collection.
Bloomsday James Joyce ~ Jacques Emile Blanche
Blanche had little formal training but his portraits are beautifully executed in a very loose and fluid style. His Father a fashionable nerve specialist provided access for many of his famous sitters. Joyce appears calm with little facial expression. He is instantly recognisable with the trade mark glasses and small moustache. A fitting card to send this Bloomsday to any aspiring writer and lover of Leopold Bloom and the wonderful novel that is Ulysses.
