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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
THE FORESTER, 1913
Indian ink with watercolour
signed lower right; titled lower left; signed and titled on reverse
9.50 by 6.75in. (24.13 by 17.15cm)
Provenance:
Sold to H.T. de V. Clifton 1935, who gave it to Lady Emily
Hemphill [See Pyle];
Purchased by the present owner’s family c.1940
Exhibited:
‘Drawings and Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland’, Mills Hall,
Dublin, 8-22 April 1920, no. 24
Literature:
Pyle, Hilary,
The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats. His Cartoons
and Illustrations
, Irish Academic Press, 1994, p.265 (catalogue
no. 1913)
Reproduced in
A Broadside
no. 9 fifth year (February, 1913). Contained
in its original 1940s frame.
In her text
Jack B.Yeats His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels
, Hilary
Pyle describes an earlier watercolour by Yeats entitled
A Political
Meeting, County Sligo, 1905
[catalogue no. 517, p.135] of the same
subject matter.
The present work dates to 1913 and may have been based on the
earlier 1905 watercolour which the artist was clearly pleased with.Yeats
regularly revisited his sketchbooks and drawings throughout his career
basing many of his later more abstracted canvases on scenes recorded
several years previous.
See
for complete note on this lot.
€
8,000-
€
10,000 (£6,800-£8,500 approx.)
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