ID 1308896
Lot 86 | JACK BUTLER YEATS, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
The Sun
signed 'JACK B YEATS' (lower left), inscribed 'THE SUN' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
13 7/8 x 21 1/8 in. (35.3 x 53.7 cm.)
Painted in 1947.
Provenance
with HCE Gallery, Massachusetts, 1961.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 1961.
A gift from the above to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., in 1966.
Their sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 May 1989, lot 152, where acquired for the present collection.
Literature
H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Vol. II, London, 1992, p. 766, no. 851, illustrated.
H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Vol. III, London, 1992, p. 442, no. 851, illustrated.
Exhibited
Tuam Art Club Exhibition, 1948, no. 3, catalogue not traced.
York, City Art Gallery, Jack Butler Yeats: Painting, 1960, no. 48.
Montreal, Waddington Galleries, Jack Butler Yeats: Paintings, October - November 1961, n.p., no. 36, illustrated.
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, A Free Spirit: Irish Art 1860-1960, June - July 1990, pp. 184-185, no. 67, illustrated.
Manchester, City Art Gallery, Jack B. Yeats: A Celtic Visionary, March - April 1996, n.p., no. 19, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Leeds, City Art Gallery, April - June 1996; and Belfast, Ormeau Baths Gallery, June - July 1996.
| Artist: | Jack Butler Yeats (1871 - 1957) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Jack Butler Yeats (1871 - 1957) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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