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

On the Hazard

Details

Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
On the Hazard
signed 'JACK B YEATS' (upper right)
oil on panel
11 x 15 in. (29 x 38 cm.)
Painted in 1911

Provenance

Serge Philipson, Dublin, by whom purchased direct from the artist in May 1948.

Literature

H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats A Catalogue Raisonn of the Oil Paintings I, London, 1992, no.27, p.26 (illustrated).
Idem III, p.14 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 82nd Annual Exhibition, July 1911, no.134.
Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, Jack B. Yeats A Centenary Exhibition, September-December 1971, no.28 (illustrated): this exhibition travelled to New York, Cultural Center, April-June 1972.

Lot Essay

Hilary Pyle (loc. cit) comments on the present work: 'At a cab-stand, a close-up of the side of a side-car by night. The driver leans over the top, watching three men engaged in a game of cards, their faces lit in a Caravaggio manner by the candle hidden in the corner of the side-car step. Yeats's interest in Daumier at the time is reflected in the way the darkness of the background acts as a foil for the characterful faces of the cabbies'.

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