Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

The Artist's Estate

Waddington Galleries, London, where acquired by a private collector, circa 1961, and thence by family descent

Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1993, no.632, p.154, illustrated

London, Waddington Galleries, Early Watercolours, 6 - 29 April 1961, no. 59, illustrated

Yeats would occasionally make interior studies, with a number of interiors in oil painted in the 1930s. This early watercolour is a rare example, depicting a room beside a window crowded with ornaments and a distinctive plaster nude.