€520
Star Lot: A very large original oil on canvas painting titled "The Lovely People" by the artist David Clarke. Features a highly textural abstract scene full of movement colour and gestural strokes. Signed bottom right, with a Dawson Gallery sticker to verso. Clarke does excellently at auction, fetching a sale of €2,200 at Whyte's.
Provenance: the Dawson Gallery
MM: 137 x 122 cm in frame.
Son of the renowned stained glass artist Harry Clarke and painter Margaret Clarke (née Crilly), David Clarke studied art under Mainie Jellett. In the accompanying essay to his 1969 exhibition, Thomas Kinsella wrote: "This new exhibition shows him confidently at work with vital material, achieving his purpose consistently with precision and richness … Colour is at times the essence of his achievement, as in the harvest field paintings with those golden yellow bales of hay..."
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