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JACK BUTLER YEATS, R.H.A. (1871-1957)

Lot 87
19.11.2024 13:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 87 | JACK BUTLER YEATS, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
Estimate value
£ 400 000 – 600 000
JACK BUTLER YEATS, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
O'Connell Bridge
signed 'JACK B YEATS' (lower left), inscribed 'O'CONNELL/BRIDGE' (on the reverse), 'inscribed again 'O'Connell Bridge' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1925.




Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by Dr E. MacCarvill, Dublin, in 1945.
Anonymous sale; James Adam & Sons, Dublin, 10 July 1986, lot 59, where acquired by Cynthia O'Connor Gallery on behalf of the present collection.



Literature

H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Vol. I, London, 1992, p. 227, no. 253, illustrated.
H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Vol. III, London, 1992, p. 273, no. 253, illustrated.
T.G. Rosenthal, The Art of Jack B. Yeats, London, 1993, p. 75, p. 277, no. 28, illustrated.
K. Milligan, Painting Dublin: Visualising a Changing City, 1886-1949, Manchester, 2020, pp. 109-110.



Exhibited

London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Pictures of Irish Life, March - April 1925, no. 17.
Dublin, Engineers' Hall, Jack Butler Yeats: Paintings, October 1925, no. 10.
Dublin, Royal Dublin Society Spring Show, Paintings and Sculpture by Irish Artists, May 1941.
Dublin, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Yeats at the Municipal Gallery, 1959, no. 55.
London, Pyms Gallery, Irish Renascence: Irish Art in a Century of Change, November 1986, no. 32.
Dublin, Gorry Gallery, An Exhibition of 18th, 19th and 20th Century Irish Paintings, November - December 1988, no. 55.
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, A Free Spirit: Irish Art 1860-1960, June - July 1990, pp. 71-72, fig. 56, ex. cat., illustrated.
Bristol, Arnolfini, Jack B. Yeats: The Late Paintings, February - March 1991, pp. 40-41, no. 3, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, April - May 1991; and The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, June - September 1991.
Manchester, City Art Galleries, Jack B. Yeats: A Celtic Visionary, March - April 1996, n.p., no. 5, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Leeds, City Art Gallery, April - June 1996; Belfast, Ormeau Baths Gallery, June - July 1996.
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, When Time Began to Rant and Rage, October 1998 - December 1999, no. 28: this exhibition travelled to California, Berkeley Art Museum, February - May 1999; New York, Grey Art Gallery, May - July 1999.
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Championing Irish Art: The Mary and Alan Hobart Collection, April - July 2023, p. 50, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.
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