Reflecting on the genius of Harry Clarke

Sean Keating’s portrait of the stained glass artist shines through at the latest Whyte’s sale

Thinking Out Gobnet, Portrait of Harry Clarke by Sean Keating

What a debt we owe Harry Clarke, the subject of a headline lot which leads Whyte’s latest sale of Irish and international art: it was he who introduced Sean Keating to the Aran Islands.

The pair met while studying at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in 1911. Keating ...