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Lot 41
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Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.
  • The Narrow Gap
  • signed l.l.: JACK B YEATS; titled on the stretcher
  • oil on canvas
  • 35.5 by 53 cm.; 14 by 21 in.

Provenance

Sold through Victor Waddington Galleries, 1950
The Waddington Galleries, Montreal
Jack D. Gordon, Florida

Exhibited

Montreal, The Waddington Galleries, Jack B. Yeats: Paintings, 24 October - 11 November 1961, no.26, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue;
London, Waddington Galleries, Jack B. Yeats: Paintings, Watercolours & Drawings, 16 November - 17 December 2005, no.9, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue. 

Literature

Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, André Deutsch, London, 1992, no.990, p.894, illustrated p.505.

Catalogue Note

'Through a gap in a hedge steps a blue and white, twisted figure, a being on an exalted plane, looking steadfastly in front of him. The parabolic nature of the painting is increased by the shaft of chrome on the blue and green hedge through which he steps, which lights the grass all over'.

(Hilary Pyle, op.cit., vol.II, p.894)