Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

A Nor' Western Town

VAT reduced rateArtist's Resale Right

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November 23, 03:04 PM GMT

Estimate

350,000 - 550,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Irish Private Collection

Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

1871 - 1957

A Nor' Western Town

signed JACK B. YEATS (lower left); titled (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

unframed: 46 by 61cm.; 18 by 24in.

framed: 66 by 81cm.; 26 by 32in.

Executed in 1936.

Leo Smith, from whom acquired by W. V. Stafford, Wexford in 1944

Inherited from the above by Mrs W. V. Stafford

Their sale, de Veres Dublin, 12 June 2007, lot 31, where acquired by the present owner

Hilary Pyle, Jack Butler Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, André Deutsch, London, 1992, vol. I, no. 473, p. 430

Alex Verner (director), Jack Yeats, The Man Who Painted Ireland, RTE, 2021, illustrated

London, Dunthorne, Recent Paintings, 19 March - 15 April 1936, no. 16
London, National Gallery, Nicholson and Yeats, 1 January - 15 March 1942, no. 31
London, Leger Galleries, Some English Paintings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Contemporary Art, 9 April - 5 May 1942