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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
MUST HAVE BEEN AN ALLEGORY, 1899
pencil and wash on paper mounted on card
signed and dated lower right; inscribed with title on reverse underneath backing board
4 x 6in. (10.16 x 15.24cm)
Provenance:
Clausen Galleries, New York;The collection of Mr John Quinn;’Sale of John Quinn Collection’, American Art Galleries, New
York, 10 February 1927, lot 276A; Bought by J. M. Kerrigan;Private collection
Exhibited:
’Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland’, Walker Art Gallery, London, February 1899, catalogue no. 31; ’Sketches of Life in
the West of Ireland’, Leinster Hall, Dublin, May 1899, catalogue no. 26;’Recent Watercolours’, Clausen Galleries, New York,
1904, catalogue no. 25
Literature:
Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1983, catalogue no. 180, p.
81
In the frame of Rowley Gallery, London. It is unclear whether the present work is the same listed by Pyle as no. 180, as
whilst the dimensions and description match, it may be a study for the same work; several other sketches for it exist in
sketchbooks.
€1500-€2000 (£1140-£1440 approx.)
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 31