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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
Estimate:
€10,000 - €15,000
Sold
€18,000
Live Auction
The Ernie O'Malley Collection in association with Christie's
Size
9.50 by 7.50in. (24.1 by 19.1cm)
Description
Title: OLD JOHN, 1904
Note: According to Yeats, Old John was a small farmer, and two other watercolours in the 1904 exhibition at Clausen, Young John and Michael, depicted his sons - from Gaelic American 5 April 1904 and Hilary Pyle Jack B. Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels. A typed label circa 1970, indicates that this image was an illustration for a lithograph entitled Road To The West, circa 1910.
Note: According to Yeats, Old John was a small farmer, and two other watercolours in the 1904 exhibition at Clausen, Young John and Michael, depicted his sons - from Gaelic American 5 April 1904 and Hilary Pyle Jack B. Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels. A typed label circa 1970, indicates that this image was an illustration for a lithograph entitled Road To The West, circa 1910.
Medium
watercolour
Signature
signed lower right, titled on reverse
Provenance
Purchased by Mrs Jarvis, Clausen's buyer, at the 1904 exhibition;
Purchased by James A. Healy, New York City, circa 1935-45;
Gifted to Cormac O'Malley, circa 1974
Literature
Hilary Pyle Jack B. Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Irish Academic Press, 1993, No. 499, page
131
Exhibited
Clausen Gallery, New York, 1904
