Lot Essay
Hilary Pyle (loc. cit.) comments on the present work: 'An elated view of Sligo Bay, in sparkling colours, seen by a figure standing on board a steamer in the right foreground'.
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Entering Sligo, Summer Morning
Details
Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
Entering Sligo, Summer Morning
signed 'JACK B YEATS' (lower left), inscribed 'ENTERING SLIGO/SUMMER MORNING' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
9 x 14½ in. (23 x 37 cm.)
Painted in 1946
Entering Sligo, Summer Morning
signed 'JACK B YEATS' (lower left), inscribed 'ENTERING SLIGO/SUMMER MORNING' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
9 x 14½ in. (23 x 37 cm.)
Painted in 1946
Provenance
with Victor Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by Leslie Dacus in 1946.
Anon. Sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 July 1970, lot 78.
with Victor Waddington, London.
Anon. Sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 July 1970, lot 78.
with Victor Waddington, London.
Literature
T.G. Rosenthal, The Art of Jack B. Yeats, London, 1993, no. 202, p. 303 (illustrated p. 215).
H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings II, London, 1992, no. 747, p. 673 (illustrated).
H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings II, London, 1992, no. 747, p. 673 (illustrated).
Exhibited
London, Victor Waddington, Paintings, April-May 1971, no. 18 (illustrated).