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

Property from the Estate of the late SIR PETER SCOTT, C.B.E.

Details

Jack Butler Yeats R.H.A. (1871-1957)
The Boat Builder
signed lower left Jack B. Yeats, inscribed on the reverse The Boat Builder, oil on panel
14¼ x 9¼in. (36.2 x 23.5cm.)
Painted circa 1913

Literature

H. Pyle, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings of Jack Butler Yeats I, London, 1992, no.78, p.174

Exhibited

Dublin, Mills Hall, Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland, Feb.-March 1914, no.36: this exhibition travelled to London, Walker Art Gallery, June-July 1914, no.19
Belfast, Art Society, 1914

Lot Essay

The current work is unlocated in Hilary Pyle's catalogue raisonné. It is related to Yeats' illustration The Boat Builder for J.M. Synge's In Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara, published posthumously in 1911. The work included the twelve articles that Synge had written for the Manchester Guardian between 10 June and 26 July 1905. Entitled In the Congested Districts the articles record the poverty of the areas in the care of the Congested Districts Board which he witnessed on a tour with Yeats around Galway and Mayo. Yeats considered that his collaboration with Synge had been one of the inspirational experiences of his life.
(see H. Pyle, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats His Cartoons and Illustrations, Dublin, 1994, p.129)

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