Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)

Sailor Home From The Sea

Details

Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
Sailor Home From The Sea
signed 'JACK B YEATS' (lower right)
oil on panel
9 x 14 in. (23.1 x 35.6 cm.)
Painted in 1924.

Provenance

with Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, where purchased by Dr C.J. MacAuley, 1944, and by descent to Miss M. MacAuley, Dublin.
Anonymous sale; De Veres, Dublin, 12 April 2005, lot 31, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

H. Pyle, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings Volume I, London, 1992, p. 211, no. 236.

Exhibited

Dublin, Engineer's Hall, Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland, March - April 1924, no. 2.
London, Tooth, Pictures of Irish Life, April 1926, no. 5.
Birmingham, Ruskin Gallery, Paintings of Ireland, May - June 1927, no. 11.
Dublin, National College of Art, National Loan Exhibition, June - July 1945, no. 129.

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Lot Essay

Hilary Pyle comments on the present work 'The current painting is typical of the artist's style. A slightly dim room with the sash window raised, and a view of the sailor, who is passing, looking round into the open window. The contained interior, contrasted with the light and air of the landscape (undoubtedly Rosse Point), is a common theme throughout Yeats's oeuvre' (H. Pyle, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings Volume I, London, 1992, p. 211, no. 236).

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