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Bernadette Madden (b.1948) - DEPOSITION OF CHRIST

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Bernadette Madden (b.1948) - DEPOSITION OF CHRIST

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Auction Date:2011 Dec 11 @ 14:00 (UTC+1)
Location:The Freemasons Hall - 17 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
Bernadette Madden (b.1948) - DEPOSITION OF CHRIST

batik
with inscribed artist's studio label [Herbert Place, Dublin] on reverse; artist's reference number [408] also on reverse
65 by 53cm., 25.7 5 by 20.7 5in.



This batik was one of a small number of studies by Madden towards a complete set of 'Stations of the Cross' for a commission for the Holy Cross Abbey, Tipperary.
"In Ireland, the name Bernadette Madden is virtually synonymous with batik. That is so because she has taken a medium that was chiefly associated with decorative craft and developed it as a means of artistic expression. In doing so she has, with exceptional technical virtuosity both revealed the versatility of batik and exploited its painterly possibilities as never before. It is evident from her work that she exercises a remarkable degree of control over the play of rich, saturated colour and tonal variations that the technique of fabric dyeing allows. But she has also immeasurably extended its conventional range of subject matter and its compositional possibilities."
Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, (from his introduction to Irish Impressions BASF in Schwarzheide, Germany 2005).