The False Morning Promise

Details

JACK BUTLER YEATS, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
The False Morning Promise
signed 'JACK B./YEATS' (lower left), inscribed 'THE FALSE/MORNING PROMISE' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
9 x 14 in. (23 x 35.5 cm.)
Painted in 1945.

Provenance

with Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, where purchased by Leslie Dacus, Dublin, 1945.
His sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 July 1970, lot 79.
with Victor Waddington Galleries, London.
with Waddington Galleries, London.
Anonymous sale; Adams, Dublin, 7 December 2016, lot 48, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Jack B. Yeats: Paintings, London, Victor Waddington Galleries, 1971, n.p., no. 13, illustrated.
H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Vol. II, London, 1992, p. 644, no. 713, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Victor Waddington Galleries, Jack B. Yeats: Paintings, April - May 1971, no. 13.

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.

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Lot Essay

'A river estuary at morning, on a fair day. The breath of wind, and the gathering of cloud reflected in the water, indicate that the benevolent aspect is fickle and that the weather will change soon' (H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Vol. II, London, 1992, p. 644.)

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