Modern British & Irish Art

Modern British & Irish Art

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Property from a Distinguished British Collection

Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A.

Going to the Races

Auction Closed

November 23, 02:38 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished British Collection

Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A.

1871 - 1957

Going to the Races


signed JACK B YEATS (lower right); titled on a label attached to the reverse

oil on panel

unframed: 23 by 36.5cm.; 9 by 14¼in.

framed: 38 by 50.5cm.; 15 by 20in.

Executed in 1917.

The Artist, by whom sold to James Morton, West Lothian, 1928
Sale, Christie's Scotland, 27 October 1989, lot 386
Trinity Gallery, London
Private Collection, Ireland, from whom acquired by the present owner in 2011
Colour, London, vol.7, no.6, January 1918, no. 137
Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Andre Deutsch, London, 1992, Vol. I, no.110, illustrated p. 96 and Vol. III, illustrated p.46
Bruce Arnold, Jack Yeats, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1998, p. 79
International Exhibition, 1917 (details untraced)
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 1918, no. 64
Belfast, 1918 (details untraced)
Dublin, Mills Halls, Drawings and Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland, 8 - 22 April 1920, no. 12
Dublin, An tOireachtas, An Chéad Taispeántas Ealadhan, August 1920
New York, Society of Independent Artists, Annual Exhibition, February 1921