Death or Glory I

Hughie O'Donoghue

From the series of ten works forming A Line of Retreat, charting 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, and would inform his work almost entirely for the next decade. The skull and cross-bones image in Death & Glory I & II refers to the emblazoning on a motorcycle belonging to the artist's father, upon which he delivered dispatches to the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France.

Artist
Hughie O'Donoghue
Title
Death or Glory I
Medium
Colour carborundum print
Date
1997
Sheet
49.0 x 60.0 cm: 19 5/16 x 23 5/8 in.
Plate
49.0 x 60.0 cm: 19 5/16 x 23 5/8 in.
Edition
From the edition of 35, titled, numbered, signed and dated by the artist
Printer
Hope Sufferance Press, London
Publisher
Hughie O'Donoghue
Literature
PQ 23/2
Reference
CC14-11
Status
Available

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