ADAM'S IMPORTANT IRISH ART 24th September 2025

52 32 HARRY CLARKE RHA (1889 – 1931) A collection of five original ink illustrations on Bristol card comprising: 1- A Decoration, as published on page 200 of Faust , pub. George G. Harrap, London 1925, Pen and Indian ink 10.7 x 13cm (4 ¼ x 5”) Signed in pencil verso and inscribed with printer’s instructions. 2- A Decoration, as published on page 24 of Swinburne Selected Poems , pub John Lane, The Bodley Head, and Dodd, Mead and Co., New York 1928, Pen and Indian ink 9 x 11.2cm (4 ½ x 3¾”) Signed ‘Clarke’ in pencil verso and inscribed with title and printer’s instructions 3- A Decoration, as published on page 158 of The Fairy Tales of Perrault , pub. George G. Harrap, London 1922 Pen and Indian ink 8.4 x 16cm (3 ¼ x 6 ¼”) Signed and dated 1922 in pencil verso; inscribed: ‘Tailpiece; Ridiculous ….; Porky Skin; Puss in Boots’ on margin. 4- A Decoration, Epitaph , as published on page 166 of Swinburne Selected Poems , pub. John Lane, The Bodley Head, and Dodd, Mead and Co., New York 1928, Pen and Indian ink 12.8 x 9.9cm (4 x 5”) Inscribed in pencil ‘Epitaph 166’ recto and ‘Swinburne page 166’ verso. 5- A Decoration, Promenade , as published on page 154 of Faust , pub. George G. Harrap, London 1925, Pen and Indian ink 12.3 x 13.3cm (5 ¼ x 4¾”) Signed in pencil verso and inscribed ‘Tailpiece; Promenade 154’ recto and ‘She snuffled at the Chain and Gem’ and printers instructions verso Provenance: Collection of the late Caroline Faulkner (US); Private Collection, Ireland € 15,000 - 20,000 [1] Quoted in Nicola Gordon Bowe, Harry Clarke, the Life and Work (2nd ed., Dublin, 2012, p. 266.)