A Line of Retreat
The series of ten works forming A Line of Retreat charts the dramatic egress of O'Donoghue's father and the British Army, from France during 1940. The series was conceived after the artist came into possession of journals left to him after his father's death, which would inform his work almost entirely for the next decade.
The set comprises the following works in order (illustrated left to right, descending):
i) Wagons to Rouen
ii) Death or Glory I
iii) Death of Glory II
iv) A Monument in Rouen
v) North of Rouen, South of the Somme: A Crossroads in France
vi) German Tanks, Forges-les-Eaux
vii) A Road West
viii) Crossing the Seine (illus. right)
ix) Clay Feet
x) Getting out at Cherbourg (illus. right)
A Line of Retreat
- Artist
- Hughie O'Donoghue (b.1953)
- Title
- A Line of Retreat
- Medium
- Set of ten colour carborundum prints
- Date
- 1997
- Sheet size (Each)
- 19 ½ x 23 ½ in : 49.0 x 60.0 cm
- Frame size (Each)
- 24 ¾ x 28 ¾ in : 62.7 x 73.2 cm
- Edition
- From the edition of 35
- Inscriptions
- Each titled, numbered, signed and dated by the artist
- Printer
- Hope Sufferance Press, London
- Publisher
- Published by the artist
- Literature
- PQ 23/1-23/10
- Reference
- CC13-46
- Status
- Available
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