Modern British & Irish Art

Modern British & Irish Art

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Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit

Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

A Welcome

Auction Closed

November 23, 03:04 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit

Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

1871 - 1957

A Welcome


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

oil on board

unframed: 23.5 by 37cm.; 9¼ by 14½in.

framed: 38 by 51cm.; 15 by 20in.

Executed in 1945.

Victor Waddington Galleries, London, where acquired by M. Fridberg, Dublin, 1945
Desmond Fitzgerald, from whom acquired by Sir Michael Smurfit in 1990

Hilary Pyle, Jack B Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, André Deutsch, London, 1992, Vol. II, no. 702, illustrated p. 633

T. G. Rosenthal, The Art of Jack B. Yeats, André Deutsch, London, 1993, no. 199, illustrated p. 213

Monte-Carlo, Centre de Congres, Jack B. Yeats Exhibition, 11 - 16 June 1990, no. 31, illustrated in the catalogue p. 63, with tour to the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin (where lent by Sir Michael Smurfit)
Attemosevej, Denmark, Gl. Holtegaard, Jack B. Yeats, 22 January - 14 March 1999, no. 12, illustrated in the catalogue p. 17