![]() 'How Keating has painted him is almost how Clarke painted himself right. After studying the technique at Oldham School of Arts and Crafts, he came to prominence in the 1970s during the punk movement. An allegorical study from 1917, it depicts Harry Clarke set against the ruins of the ancient churches of Inis Oirr. He gravitated towards the medium of stained glass in his late teens, when his then girlfriend – the daughter of a clergyman – showed him an inspirational church window. He had an originality and poetic purpose that was rivalled only by his great literary peers in Dublin at the time."Ĭlarke, who has strong ties with Dublin, was the executor for the estate of artist Francis Bacon and, with the artist's heir John Edwards, was involved in the transfer of Bacon's studio and its 7,000 objects to the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin in 1998, where it is installed on permanent display. I'm thrilled that this masterpiece of Irish art has now joined the collection. The panel, set in a James Hicks walnut and mahogany cabinet, achieved double its lower estimate of €80,000, selling for €165,000.īrian Clarke, no relation of Harry, said: "By any standard, Harry Clarke is an artist of international and historical significance. ![]() ![]() Brian Clarke, widely recognised as one of the world's leading stained glass artists, was the winning bidder of Harry Clarke's 1921 stained glass panel – Bluebeard's Last Wife – at Adam's of St Stephen's Green Important Irish Art sale on March 24th. ![]()
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