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Rasher (Mark Kavanagh) ( b.1977)
POPPIES, 2008
oil on canvas
signed and dated lower right; signed again, titled and dated on
reverse
59 by 41in. (149.86 by 104.14cm)
€1,000-€1,500 (£819-£1,229 approx).
156
Veronica Bolay RHA ( b.1941)
END OF THE TRACK, 1994
oil on canvas
signed, titled and dated on reverse; with Rubicon exhibition label also
on reverse
31 by 36in. (78.74 by 91.44cm)
Provenance:
Rubicon Gallery, Dublin;
Private collection
Exhibited:
‘Veronica Bolay, NewWork’, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, 13-30 April, 1994,
exhibition no. 17
€2,000-€3,000 (£1,639-£2,459 approx).
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Jack Pakenham RUA ( b.1938)
BRIDE’S ENCOUNTER, MENORCA
oil on board
signed lower left; inscribed with title on reverse
17.75 by 14in. (45.09 by 35.56cm)
The Clown and the Bride have been recurring images in the artist’s oeuvre
since the early seventies when he frst encountered the singer Leo Sayer
dressed as a white-faced Clown on the television programme ‘The Old Grey
Whistle Test’. Later, the Clown in the poetic narratives of Gerard Dillon, a
supporter of Pakenham in his early years, would become a source of
inspiration for the Dublin born artist.
The Clown has played several roles in the imagined, theatrical narratives the
artist has produced since that period, thus the Clown with his partner the
Bride and their surrogate son the Ventriloquist’s Doll appear honeymooning
in Swanage Dorset, holidaying in Connemara, Scotland, Southern Spain and
Menorca and trying to survive in the war-torn streets of Belfast in a poetical
theatre of enigmatic encounters.
€300-€400 (£245-£327 approx).