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Silence
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Harry Clarke, R.H.A. (1889-1931)
Silence
signed 'HARRY CLARKE' (lower left) and inscribed 'S/I/L/E/N/C/E' (centre left)
pen and black ink
9½ x 7 in. (24 x 17.8 cm.)
Silence
signed 'HARRY CLARKE' (lower left) and inscribed 'S/I/L/E/N/C/E' (centre left)
pen and black ink
9½ x 7 in. (24 x 17.8 cm.)
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The work is further inscribed 'Silence/"But there was no voice throughout/the vast illimitable desert"' (on the reverse)
Provenance:
The Artist's family.
Colin and Drusilla White.
Exhibited:
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 1916.
Dublin, 6th Exhibition of the Artist and Crafts Society of Ireland, 1921; this exhibition toured to Cork and Belfast.
Paris, Galeries Barbazanges, Exposition d'Art Irlandais, 1922.
Dublin, Aonach Tailteann, 1922.
Dublin, Aonach Tailteann, 1924.
Literature:
E. Allan Poe, The Tales of Mystery and and Imagination, London, 1919, illustrated.
The work is further inscribed 'Silence/"But there was no voice throughout/the vast illimitable desert"' (on the reverse)
Provenance:
The Artist's family.
Colin and Drusilla White.
Exhibited:
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 1916.
Dublin, 6th Exhibition of the Artist and Crafts Society of Ireland, 1921; this exhibition toured to Cork and Belfast.
Paris, Galeries Barbazanges, Exposition d'Art Irlandais, 1922.
Dublin, Aonach Tailteann, 1922.
Dublin, Aonach Tailteann, 1924.
Literature:
E. Allan Poe, The Tales of Mystery and and Imagination, London, 1919, illustrated.