Lot Essay
Yeats provides us with a vista of a lady resting in bed, a theme to which he visited throughout his career. The sitter may be his wife, Mary Cottenham Yeats, 'Cottie', who was bedridden for many years.
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The Dormer Window
Details
Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
The Dormer Window
signed 'JACK B YEATS.' (lower right), signed again and inscribed 'The Dormer Window/by/Jack B Yeats' (on a label attached to the reverse)and inscribed again 'THE DORMER WINDOW' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
9¼ x 14¼ in. (23 x 36.2 cm.)
Painted in 1943
The Dormer Window
signed 'JACK B YEATS.' (lower right), signed again and inscribed 'The Dormer Window/by/Jack B Yeats' (on a label attached to the reverse)and inscribed again 'THE DORMER WINDOW' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
9¼ x 14¼ in. (23 x 36.2 cm.)
Painted in 1943
Provenance
with Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, 1944, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
H. Pyle, Jack Butler Yeats a Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings I, London, 1992, no. 562, p. 515.
Exhibited
Dublin, Municipal Gallery, One Man's Meat: the Basil Goulding Collection, November-December 1961, no. 33.
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