Lot 34
  • 34

Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.
  • Hungerford Bridge
  • signed l.r.: JACK B YEATS
  • oil on board
  • 23 by 35.5cm.; 9 by 14in.

Provenance

Sold through Victor Waddington Galleries
Private Collection
Victor Waddington, London
Peter Hawkins, London
The Irish Art Project, on behalf of Theo Waddington
Private Collection, London

Exhibited

Dublin, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Jack B. Yeats: Amongst Friends, 9 September-14 October 2004, no.21, illustrated in the catalogue;
London, Waddington Galleries, Jack B. Yeats: Paintings, Watercolours & Drawings, 16 November-17 December 2005, no.5, illustrated in the catalogue. 

Literature

Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue RaisonnĂ© of the Oil Paintings, London, 1992, no.745, p.672, illustrated p.397;
T.G.Rosenthal, The Art of Jack B. Yeats, London, 1993, p.303, illustrated p.215, plate 201.

Condition

The board is sound and in excellent overall condition with strong passages of impasto throughout. Under ultraviolet light, there appear to be no signs of retouching. Held in a plaster gilt frame under glass; unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

This work is recorded in the artist's Log Book I, under 'H', where Yeats dates it December 1946.