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Property from a Distinguished European Collection

Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A.

On To Glory

Session begins in

March 5, 04:30 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 GBP

Bid

200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

1871 - 1957

On to Glory


signed JACK B YEATS (lower right)

oil on canvas

unframed: 46 by 61cm.; 18 by 24in.

framed: 67.5 by 83cm.; 26½ by 32½in.

Executed in 1947.


We are grateful to Róisín Kennedy for her kind assistance with the cataloguing for the present work.

Sold by the Artist to Leo Smith, January 1948

Dublin, Davy Byrne's, Michael J. Doran

Dublin, Dillon Antiques, where acquired by Private Collection

Sale, Replica Shoes ’s London, 13 May 2004, lot 48

Dickinson Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner

Leeds, Temple Newsam House, Jack B. Yeats Loan Exhibition, 1948, no. 75, with Arts Council tour to City Art Gallery, Aberdeen; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh and Tate Gallery, London

Boston, McMullen Museum of Art, America's Eye, 26 January - 19 May 1996, no. 43, illustrated in the exh. cat., with tour to Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Art, Dublin and Center for British Art, Yale

Washington D.C., The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Millennium Celebration Island: Arts from Ireland, 2000, illustrated in the exh. cat.

Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Andre Deutsch, London, 1992, Vol. II, no. 879, p. 795