Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

The Artist's Estate

Waddington Galleries, London, where acquired by a private collector, circa 1961, and thence by family descent

London, Waddington Galleries, Early Watercolours, 6 - 29 April 1961, no. 59, illustrated

Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1993, no.632, p.154, illustrated

Yeats would occasionally make interior studies, with a number of interiors in oil painted in the 1930s. This early watercolour is a rare example, depicting a room beside a window crowded with ornaments and a distinctive plaster nude.