Early Away

Details

Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
Early Away
signed 'JACK B YEATS' (lower left) and inscribed 'EARLY AWAY' (on the reverse)
oil on board
14¼ x 18 in. (36.2 x 45.8 cm.)
Painted in 1948.

Provenance

with Waddington Galleries, London.
Mr G. Marriot, London.
with Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by the present owner in 1983.

Literature

H. Pyle, Jack B Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings Vol. II, London, 1992, p. 821, no. 907, illustrated.
H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings Vol. III, London, 1992, p. 467, no. 907, illustrated.

Exhibited

Dublin, Victor Waddington Galleries, Jack B. Yeats Oil Paintings, October 1949, no. 20.
London, Waddington Galleries, Jack B. Yeats, March - April 1983, no. 10.

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

Pyle describes the present work: 'A man in the early morning assumes a theatrical appearance as he is lit by two lights: the cold light of the dawn at his back, and a warm beam from the open kitchen door lighting his face and his side. Behind him in the yard, a small ginger cat comes down from the wall, walking delicately to meet him, its small form lit from the kitchen as well.

The whole painting is sketched finely in indigo on a stained ground, with a concentration of impasto in the foreground emphasizing the man, and the cat, who is the centre of the painting' (Jack B. Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings Vol. II, loc. cit.).

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