Details
Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
The Flying Moon
signed 'JACK B YEATS' (lower right), inscribed 'THE FLYING MOON' (inside the stretcher)
oil on canvas
20 x 27 in. (51 x 68.5 cm.)
Painted in 1948
Provenance
with Victor Waddington Galleries, 1948.
Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Merkin, New York.
with Waddington Galleries/Waddington Boyd Associates, 1987.
Literature
H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings II, London, 1992, no. 953, p. 860 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Willard Gallery, Oil Paintings, March 1962, no. 20.
Massachusetts, Institute of Technology, Hayden Gallery, Jack B. Yeats, January-February 1965, no. 43 as The Moon has fallen out of the Sky.
Birmingham (Alabama), Alabama Museum of Art, Jack Yeats: Irish Expressionist, March-April 1980, no. 41.
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