Lot 130
  • 130

Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

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

Description

  • Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.
  • Illustration to 'Between the Bays of Carraroe' (The Poorest Parish): Connemara Mare and Foal
  • signed l.l.: JACK. B. / YEATS
  • pen, ink and watercolour
  • 15.5 by 25.5cm.; 6 by 10in.

Provenance

Gieves Art Gallery, London, 1924, whence purchased by John Masefield;
Sale, Christie's London, 19 July 1968, lot 46, as Connemara, whence purchased by Victor Waddington, London;
Nesbit Waddington, Ireland;
Private Collection.

Exhibited

Dublin, Society of Dublin Painters, Second Exhibition, April 1921;
London, Gieves Art Gallery, Jack B. Yeats - Paintings of Irish Life, January 1924, no.17.

Literature

Manchester Guardian, 14 June 1905, illustrated;
J.M. Synge, Collected Works, A.Price, 2nd ed. 1966, p.289;
Hilary Pyle, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats, His Cartoons and Illustrations, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1994, no.699.