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

A Western Town, Evening

Details

Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
A Western Town, Evening
signed 'JACK B YEATS' (lower left), inscribed 'A Western Town, Evening' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
9 x 14 in. (23 x 35.5 cm.)
Painted in 1922

Provenance

Arthur Vincent, by whom purchased at the 1923 exhibition.
W.B. Vincent, California.

Literature

H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings I, London, 1992, no. 167, p. 145 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Dublin, Stephen's Green Gallery, Drawings and Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland, April-May 1923, no. 18.

Lot Essay

Hilary Pyle (loc. cit.) comments on the present work: 'An evocative study of Sligo at evening, two men with bowler hats talking by the river, with the town behind them and Ben Bulben in the right background. The glow of light irradiating the sky from below, and making the mass of mountain appear transparent, is reflected in the water. Its effect is sensitively interpreted throughout the picture'.

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