Details
Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
The Train through the Wood
signed 'JACK B YEATS' (upper right) and inscribed 'THE TRAIN THROUGH/THE WOOD (on the reverse)
oil on board
9 x 14 in. (22.8 x 35.5 cm.)
Painted in 1925. This work is listed in the artist's Log Book I under 'T'.
Provenance
Purchased by Harry Hall at the 1928 exhibition.
with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London.
Private collection.
Peter O'Toole, London.
Literature
H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings I, London, 1992, p. 249, no. 275, illustrated, and III, p. 117, illustrated.
Exhibited
Dublin, Engineer's Hall, Jack B. Yeats, October 1925, no. 29.
London, Tooth Gallery, Jack B. Yeats: Paintings, March - April 1928, no. 19.
Dublin, R.H.A. Gallagher Gallery, Jack B. Yeats, February - March 1995, no. 6.
Manchester, City Art Galleries, Jack B. Yeats: A Celtic Visionary, March - April 1996, no. 1: this exhibition travelled to Leeds, City Art Gallery, April - June 1996; Belfast, Ormeau Baths Gallery, June - July 1996.
Special notice
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