WHYTE'S IRISH ART 28 MAY 2018

33 Harry Clarke RHA (1889-1931) STATIONS OF THE CROSS: JESUS CARRIES HIS CROSS and JESUS FALLS FOR THE FIRST TIME, 1927 pencil and watercolour; (2) 14 by 8in. (35.6 by 20.3cm) Exhibited: Nicola Gordon Bowe, Harry Clarke, The Life of Work, History Press Ireland, Dublin, 2012, pp. 266-267 (Je- sus Falls for the First Time, illustrated) Two full scale designs for the second and third Stations of the Cross inset panels in pencil and waterco- lour dating to 1927 for the Basilica at St. Patrick’s Purgatory, Lough Derg. This commission was the largest of Clarke’s church commissions at this time, others included a three-light window for the Catholic church at Tullycross, Co. Galway, a two-light at Killaloe, a three-light ordered by Colthursts for Blarney, Co. Cork and three windows for St. Patrick’s College, Thurles. The commission - for Professor William Scott’s new basilica in Lough Derg - comprised a series of Stations conceived as small oval panels leaded into a scheme of fourteen windows depicting The Apostles, St. Paul and Jesus. Clarke sent pencil designs and three full-scale colour studies of the inset Stations of the Cross panels in these to his patron, Canon Keown in February 1927. Two years later, in June, The Lough Derg Windows were consecrated to great acclaim. Alice Curtayne (1898-1981) the author and lecturer referred to them thus in her text Lough Derg (Dublin 1944): In St Patrick’s Basilica on Station Island, Lough Derg, the Station of the Cross are set up in a very distinc- tive manner… Each of these fourteen … holds up a Station, which is shown on an inset plaque of lighter glass, more delicately coloured, so that it stands out in bold relief from the window. In this way it is the Station chiefly which holds the attention, while the attendant Apostle seems to hover attentively in the background. For further reading see: Nicola Gordon Bowe, Harry Clarke, The Life of Work, History Press Ireland, Dublin, 2012, chapters 9 & 10, pp.253-277 €8,000-€10,000 (£7,020-£8,770 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 33