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CLOWN'S ENCOUNTER, MENORCA Jack Pakenham RUA (b.1938)
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed with title on reverse Medium: oil on board Dimensions: 59.69 by 44.45cm., 23.5 by 17.5in. 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 prog... gramme 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. more