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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
Estimate:
€70,000 - €100,000
Sold
€85,000
Live Auction
Important Irish Art
Size
9 by 14in. (22.9 by 35.6cm)
Description
Title: THE FOURTH ESTATE, 1945
Note: Pyle writes:The interior of a newsagents shop, with magazines spread on the counter. A cat sits on a row of books. Yeats equates the cat's position whimsically with that of the reporter in the press gallery.
Frame dimensions: 16.5 by 21.5in. (41.9 by 54.6cm)
Note: Pyle writes:The interior of a newsagents shop, with magazines spread on the counter. A cat sits on a row of books. Yeats equates the cat's position whimsically with that of the reporter in the press gallery.
Frame dimensions: 16.5 by 21.5in. (41.9 by 54.6cm)
Condition
Slight cracking visible on close inspection lower right, this area appears stable. One slight area of flaking visible upper centre to the right of cat. Otherwise very good condition.
Medium
oil on panel
Signature
signed lower left; titled on reverse
Provenance
Victor Waddington Galleries, 1945;Captain Alan Hillgarth, Ballinderry;Private collection
Literature
Pyle, Hilary, Jack B. Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonné of The Oil Paintings, André Deutsch, London, 1992, Vol. II, No. 718, p.647
Exhibited
'Paintings', Goodwin Galleries, Limerick, 21-29 September 1945, catalogue no. 9
