拍品專文
Hilary Pyle writes of this work 'Yeats was using coloured crayons in his sketchbooks about this period, and in 1915 made three oil pastel views of Ballycastle of which this is one. He had visited the North Mayo town in 1909, when he sketched different aspects of the coastal landscape with the spectacular Downpatrick Head, in both watercolour and oil. He is not known to have been in Ballycastle in 1915, and he may have made his small pastel landscapes from memory.
This winter view from a terrace lining the foreground is an exercise in colour and light and weather, with a sky that seems to ordain the expressiveness of the marvellous skies in this latest work'.
(private correspondence, March 1996).
This winter view from a terrace lining the foreground is an exercise in colour and light and weather, with a sky that seems to ordain the expressiveness of the marvellous skies in this latest work'.
(private correspondence, March 1996).