Adam's Works on Paper ONILNE Auction Ending August 10th 2020

65 Works on Paper 188 HARRY CLARKE (1889 - 1931) Original pencilled design for a three light stained glass window with smaller openings above Hard and soft pencils on cream paper, 15 x 27cm The windows with inked outlines, mounted, showing Christ crucified on a circular ground, flanked on either side by a bishop with crook, with lightly sketched vignettes including an eagle and a round tower, the foot of the cross with Celtic patterns, the upper central opening showing God the father with outstretched hands, a radiant triangle behind his crowned head. The vignette in the upper opening, overlook- ing the design, is very like the similarly placed vignette in Clarke’s Coronation of the Blessed Virgin window in Glasgow (also a three-light window), both showing a deity with outstretched hands, wearing a stepped crown, with a triangular form behind the head (see Costigan & Cullen, Strangest Genius, colour plate opposite p. 255). The similarity is surely more than coincidental, although the remainder of the design does not match the Glasgow window. The present design may therefore be an earlier version, or a sketch for a different and uncompleted project, one part of which went into the finished design for the Glasgow window. In either case it is an attractive and desirable item. € 800 - 1,200