Lot 74
  • 74

Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A. 1871-1957

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.
  • a mother's pride
  • signed l.r.: Jack B. Yeats

  • pencil and watercolour
  • 15.5 by 10.5cm.; 6 by 4in.

Provenance

Waddington Galleries, London, whence purchased by Mr and Mrs F.S.Hess, April 1961, and thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Dublin, Leinster Hall, Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland, 1-20 October 1906, no.37;
London, Walker Art Gallery, Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland, 3-29 February 1908, no.45;
London, Waddington Galleries, Early Watercolours, 6 April - 29 April 1961, no.49, as Mother, illustrated in the catalogue.

Literature

Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Dublin 1992, no.620, illustrated p.152.

Catalogue Note

Executed in 1903, the present work is also known as Mother. The two central characters are in a music hall where, 'a comedian, dressed as a dumpy lady, with hat, shawl and umbrella, walks on stage arm-in-arm with a haughty harlequin' (Pyle, op.cit., p.152).