Lot 3
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JACK B. YEATS, R.H.A. | Derelict

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.
  • Derelict
  • signed l.r.: JACK B YEATS
  • watercolour
  • 33.5 by 23.5cm., 13¼ by 9¼in.

Provenance

Sold through the Victor Waddington Galleries to Serge Philipson, Dublin, 1945;
Mrs. Rachel Philipson-Levy, 1996

Exhibited

Dublin, Leinster Hall, Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland, 8 - 12 December 1910, no.16;
Paris, Salon des Indépendents, 1912;
London, Walker Art Gallery, Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland, 29 June - 18 July 1914, no.30;
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, America’s Eye: Irish Paintings from the Collection of Brian P. Burns, 25 September 1997 - 4 January 1998; 
Washington, John F. Kennedy Center, Irish Paintings from the Collection of Brian P. Burns, 13 - 28 May 2000, illustrated p.97;
Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum, A Century of Irish Painting: Selections from the Brian P. Burns Collection, 3 March - 29 April 2007, illustrated p.96

Literature

Thomas MacGreevy, Jack Butler Yeats: an Appreciation and an Interpretation, Dublin, 1945, p.23
Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Dublin, 1993, no.699, p.164

Condition

The sheet is sound and does not appear to be laid down, cockles slightly. The work appears in good overall condition. Held under glass in a gilt frame with a blue mount; unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

Painted in 1910.