Lot Essay
A man sits by the bedside of his friend, who reclines against the pillows, recovering from an illness. The invalid looks out the window with a longing gaze at the extensive spring landscape beyond.
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The Sick Bed
Details
Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
The Sick Bed
signed 'JACK B YEATS' (lower left), inscribed 'THE SICK BED' (inside the stretcher)
oil on canvas
18 x 24 in. (45.8 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1950
The Sick Bed
signed 'JACK B YEATS' (lower left), inscribed 'THE SICK BED' (inside the stretcher)
oil on canvas
18 x 24 in. (45.8 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1950
Provenance
with Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by the present owner in April 1952.
Literature
H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings II, London, 1992, no. 1034, p. 939, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Wildenstein, Jack B. Yeats Recent Paintings, March 1963, no. 2.
London, Waddington Galleries, Jack B. Yeats Paintings, March-April 1963, no. 29, illustrated.
London, Waddington Galleries, Jack B. Yeats Paintings, March-April 1963, no. 29, illustrated.
Special notice
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