Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
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Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)

By Streedagh Strand

Details
Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
By Streedagh Strand
signed 'JACK B YEATS' (lower right)
oil on panel
9 x 14 in. (23 x 35.5 cm.)
Painted in 1925.
Provenance
Captain Gough, by whom purchased at the 1925 exhibition.
J.Y. Robinson, Mahoney Avenue, Youngstown, Ohio from whom purchased by Patrick S. Moore, Ohio, in March 1951.
Literature
H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings I, London, 1992, p. 258, no. 284, illustrated.
Idem III, p. 120, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Tooth, Jack B. Yeats Pictures of Irish Life, March - April 1925, no. 1.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Hilary Pyle (loc. cit.) comments, 'Streedagh Strand in Sligo. Yeats painted a larger version with the same title in 1940. The young man in the foreground, seen half-length, may be compared with the youth in Islandbridge Regatta (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin)'.

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