Irish Art

Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

The Boat Builder

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November 23, 04:38 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

1871 - 1957

The Boat Builder

signed JACK B YEATS (lower right)

oil on board

unframed: 23 by 35.5cm.; 9 by 14in.

framed: 43 by 56cm.; 17 by 22in.

Executed in 1923.

The Artist, from whom acquired by Alfred R. De Lury, University of Toronto, August 1923

D. B. De Lury, Toronto

Sale, Heffel Fine Art, Vancouver, 27 November 2003, lot 10

Sale, Adam's, Dublin, 26 September 2012, lot 30, where acquired by the present owner

Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats - A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, Andre Deutsch, London, 1922, vol. I, no. 199, illustrated p. 174
Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats - A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, Andre Deutsch, London, 1922, vol. III, no. 199, illustrated p. 85

Dublin, Stephen's Green Gallery, Jack B. Yeats: Drawings and Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland, April - May 1923, no. 5
Toronto, Toronto Art Gallery, Paintings by Homer Watson and a Collection of Paintings by Contemporary Irish Artists, October 1930, no. 44, illustrated

Catalogue note