A Tinker

Details

Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
A Tinker
signed 'JACK B./YEATS' (lower right) and inscribed 'The Tinker' (on the reverse)
watercolour, brush and black ink
14 x 10 in. (36 x 25.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1905

Provenance

with Waddington Galleries, London.
Philip J. Goldberg, London.
Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 14 October 1987, lot 432.
with Pyms Gallery, London.

Literature

J.B. Yeats, Life in the West of Ireland, Dublin, 1912, p. 93.
C. Stuart, 'Wanderers of the Western World', Yorkshire Observer, 10 September 1938, illustrated, as 'An Irish Tinker'.
Ireland of the Welcomes 20, no. 2, July-August 1971, p. 18, illustrated.
H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Dublin, 1993, no. 541, pp. 140-41, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Waddington Galleries, Jack B. Yeats Early Watercolours, April 1961, no. 14, illustrated.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Hilary Pyle (loc. cit.) comments on the present work, 'One of the artist's finest character studies, it was dated 1895 in the 1961 catalogue, but belongs with the character portraits of about ten years later. The man of the road, seen in three-quarter length, walks on his own on a stormy evening. There is a dramatic play between the whites of his eyes, the brilliant reflection of the lake behind him, and the gentler light of the snug cottage he leaves behind to his right.'

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