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

A Bridge in the City; Droichead i Gcathair

Details

Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
A Bridge in the City; Droichead i Gcathair
signed 'JACK B/YEATS' (lower right), inscribed 'A BRIDGE/IN THE CITY' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
20 x 27 in. (50.8 x 68.5 cm.)
Painted in 1930

Literature

H. Pyle, Jack Butler Yeats A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings I, London, 1992, no. 406, p. 369 (illustrated).

Exhibited

London, Alpine Club Gallery, Jack B Yeats Paintings, June-July 1930, no. 15.
Dublin, Engineers' Hall, Jack B Yeats Paintings, April-May 1931, no. 22.
Limerick, Goodwin Galleries, Jack B Yeats Paintings, September 1945, no. 4.
Dublin Oireachtas, 1946 (no catalogue traced).
Belfast, Museum and Art Gallery, Jack B Yeats Paintings, February-March 1956, no. 16.
Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Derry, North West Arts Festival, April 1964, no. 56.: this exhibition travelled to Belfast, May Festival, May 1964.

Lot Essay

Hilary Pyle (loc. cit.) comments on the present work: 'A view up the River Liffey from O'Connell Bridge'.

Yeats painted a series of works depicting the river during the 1920s, including The Liffey Swim, 1923; O'Connell Bridge, 1925; and Lingering Sun, O'Connell Bridge, 1927. Yeats considered that the river, which flowed from the city out to the sea, was a link with his childhood in rural Sligo.

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