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

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

The Kerry Mascot; On the Road to Croke Park

signed lower left Jack B Yeats, inscribed on the reverse On the Road to Croke Park, oil on panel
13¾ x 8¾in. (35 x 21.5cm.)

Painted in 1915

Provenance

Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, where purchased by Joseph Brennan, 1942
Sir Hugh Beaver, thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

T. MacGreevy, Jack B Yeats An Appreciation and An Interpretation, Dublin, 1945, p.23, pl.2 H. Pyle, Jack B Yeats A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings I, London, 1992, no.98

Exhibited

Dublin, Five Provinces, 1915 (not traced)
London, Grafton Galleries, Allied Artists' Association 8th Salon, March 1916 (not traced)
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 88th Exhibition, 1917, no.111
Belfast, 1918 (not traced)
Dublin, Mills Hall, Drawings and Pictures of Life of in the West of Ireland, April-May 1919, no.9
London, Little Art Rooms, Drawings and Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland, May-June 1919, no.13
Dublin, National College of Art, Irish Exhibition of Living Art, 1945, no.13

Lot Essay

Hilary Pyle (loc. cit.) comments on this work 'At the Gaelic Football final between Kerry and Wexford at Croke Park on 29 November 1914, Yeats noted the Kerry mascot, placed on the canal quay near the sports ground. In his painting, two small boys pass down the steps - against whose railing the mascot with green sash is supported beating a drum - and follow the crowd towards the bridge. Colours are mainly the pinky greys of this period, with the mascot in a darker grey with pale green, painted with short neat strokes'

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