Lot 172
  • 172

Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.
  • The Old Ring Master
  • signed l.r.: JACK/ B/ YEATS
  • watercolour with pencil
  • 25.5 by 17.5cm., 10 by 6¾in.
  • Painted in 1909.

Exhibited

Dublin, Leinster Hall, Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland, 10-29 May 1909, no.16;
Dublin, Dublin Refugee Artists Fund Exhibition, 1939

Literature

Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Irish Academic Press, 1993, no.680, p.161

Condition

The sheet appear to be sound. Slightly discoloured otherwise in good overall condition. Held under glass in a wood frame with beige and blue mount; unexamined out of frame.
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