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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
THE PLAYBILL, 1900 pencil, watercolour and pastel on paper signed lower left; titled on reverse;
also with artistʼs instructions for framing inscribed on reverse
13.75 by 6.25in. (34.93 by 15.88cm)
Provenance: Purchased at Eganʼs Gallery, Dublin, c.1920 and presented to P.F. OʼBrien, Long Hall
Bar, Dublin; Purchased by Mr & Mrs Gerald Murphy, Dublin at the auction of the Long Hall Bar,
March, 1972; James Adam, 29 May 1991, lot 89; Whence purchased by the present owner
Exhibited: ʻSketches of Life in the West of Ireland and elsewhereʼ, Leinster Hall, Dublin, March
1900, catalogue no. 4; ʻSketches of Life in the West of Irelandʼ, Clarendon Hotel, Oxford, 24-29
October, 1900; ʻSketches of Life in the West of Ireland and elsewhereʼ, Walker Art Gallery, London,
February, 1901, catalogue no. 3; ʻLoan Exhibition of Irish Artistsʼ, Guidhall, London, 31 May- 23
July, 1904
Literature: Pyle, Hilary, Jack B. Yeats: His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Irish Academic
Press, Dublin, 1993, p.98, catalogue no. 297
Pyle describes the present work thus:
”A boy wearing a cap looks into a shop window, which along with posters advertising shipping lines, has a
play bill announcing the production of The Corsican Brothers.”
The proprietor of the shop reads, “C Nulty” or “Mc Nulty” Grocer with advertisements for sailings to New York
along with the poster for the aforementioned play. A grocer and spirit merchant by the name McNulty is
recorded on the 1911 census with an address at 32 Knox Street (Ballina Urban, Mayo).
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