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Lot 157 Jack Pakenham-BRIDE'S ENCOUNTER, MENORCA
Jack Pakenham-BRIDE'S ENCOUNTER, MENORCA
oil on boardsigned lower left; inscribed with title on reverse
17.75 by 14in., 45.085 by 35.56cm.
Orientation of Image: P
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Notes: The Clown and the Bride have been recurring images in the artist's oeuvre since the early seventies when he first 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.
oil on boardsigned lower left; inscribed with title on reverse
17.75 by 14in., 45.085 by 35.56cm.
Orientation of Image: P
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Literature:
Notes: The Clown and the Bride have been recurring images in the artist's oeuvre since the early seventies when he first 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.
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