Glencar, County Sligo

Details

Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
Glencar, County Sligo
signed 'JACK B/YEATS' (lower left) and inscribed 'GLENCAR/SLIGO' (on the reverse)
oil on board
9 x 14 in. (22.8 x 35.5 cm.)
Painted in 1949. This work is listed in the artist's Log Book II under 'G'.

Provenance

with Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by Captain C.S. Collinson, London, in January 1950.
Harold Diamond, New York, 1958.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 1958-66.
with Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

Literature

H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings II, London, 1992, p. 876, no. 968, illustrated, and III, p. 497, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Yeats spent his early years between London and Co. Sligo, the latter being where his mother's family lived. This gave Yeats the opportunity to see and experience the great contrast between the industrious capital city and nature. In the 1890s he officially moved to Co. Sligo, and although this proved unsuccessful (he returned less than twenty years later), Ireland remained a strong source of influence on Yeat's artistic style, and subject matter.

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