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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
Estimate:
€25,000 - €35,000
Passed
Live Auction
Irish & International Art Auction
Size
11 by 17in. (27.9 by 43.2cm)
Description
Title: AT GREYSTONES IRELAND, c.1910
Note: Pyle describes the present watercolour as, "Sketch of a farmyard, in browns, pinks and mauves, the view taken from a stable in the foreground."Yeats left Devon in July 1910, to settle in Redford, Greystones, County Wicklow. They lived at Cartref (meaning 'home' in Welsh), a detached two storey house built c.1850 and previously occupied by John Caulfield, a district inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary. Greystones is recorded in the artist's sketchbook records from as early as 1906 when he also sketched Bray, Stepaside, Kinvara, Gort and Dublin [Pyle, p.188]. From 1910 to 1917, Greystones and other Wicklow towns and villages and Wexford feature heavily. In the autumn of 1917, Yeats and his wife Mary Cottenham (Cottie) moved to 61 Marlborough Road, in Donnybrook, Dublin.
Note: Pyle describes the present watercolour as, "Sketch of a farmyard, in browns, pinks and mauves, the view taken from a stable in the foreground."Yeats left Devon in July 1910, to settle in Redford, Greystones, County Wicklow. They lived at Cartref (meaning 'home' in Welsh), a detached two storey house built c.1850 and previously occupied by John Caulfield, a district inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary. Greystones is recorded in the artist's sketchbook records from as early as 1906 when he also sketched Bray, Stepaside, Kinvara, Gort and Dublin [Pyle, p.188]. From 1910 to 1917, Greystones and other Wicklow towns and villages and Wexford feature heavily. In the autumn of 1917, Yeats and his wife Mary Cottenham (Cottie) moved to 61 Marlborough Road, in Donnybrook, Dublin.
Medium
watercolour over pencil
Signature
signed with monogram lower left; inscribed [Greystones] on reverse; with two Waddington Galleries labels on reverse
Provenance
Waddington Fine Art, Montreal;Private collection;Theo Waddington Fine Art, London;Private collection;The Irish Art Project, Cork;Private collection
Literature
Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: His watercolours Drawings and Pastels, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1993, no. 686 as 'Untitled: Farmyard c.1910'
Exhibited
Theo Waddington Fine Art, POW, 4 to 21 November 2003, catalogue no. 53
