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Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A. 1871-1957
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description
- Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.
- a tale of piracy
- signed and dated l.r.: JACK.B.YEATS
- pencil, pen and ink, watercolour and gouache
- 26 by 35.5cm.; 10ΒΌ by 14in.
Provenance
Wells Central Hall, Dublin, whence purchased by John Quinn, August 1902 and listed in the Quinn inventory, 1924, as Tale of a Pirate;
Sale, American Art Galleries, New York, The John Quinn Collection, 11 February 1927, lot 416a, whence purchased by Cornelius J. Sullivan;
Private Collection
Exhibited
Dublin, Wells Central Hall, Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland, August 1902, no.8.
Literature
Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1993, no.425, p.119.
Catalogue Note
Executed in 1902, the present work attracted the attention of the United Irishman, whose journalist specifically noted that a 'boy...reads 'The Black Avenger' (23 August 1902).