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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 artist’s
instructions for framing inscribed on reverse
13.75 by 6.25in. (34.93 by 15.88cm)
Provenance:
Purchased at Egan’s Gallery, Dublin, c.1920 and
presented to P.F. O’Brien, 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:
‘Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland and elsewhere’,
Leinster Hall, Dublin, March 1900, catalogue no. 4;
‘Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland’, Clarendon
Hotel, Oxford, 24-29 October, 1900; ‘Sketches of Life in
the West of Ireland and elsewhere’,Walker Art Gallery,
London, February, 1901, catalogue no. 3; ‘Loan
Exhibition of Irish Artists’, 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).
!12,000-!15,000 (£10,300-£12,800 approx.)
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