Property from the Estate of the late BLANCHETTE ROCKEFELLER
Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)

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

The Morning Sea

signed lower left Jack B Yeats, inscribed on the stretcher The Morning Sea, oil on canvas
24 x 36in. (61 x 91.5cm.)

Painted in 1952
Provenance
Mr and Mrs John D. Rockefeller, New York, thence by descent to the present owner
Literature
J. White, Jack B Yeats Drawings and Paintings, London, 1971, pl.130
H. Pyle, Jack Butler Yeats A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings II, London, 1992, no.1136, p.1039 (illustrated, op. cit., III, p.574)

Exhibited
New York, Saidenberg Gallery, Jack B Yeats Paintings, Jan.-March 1953, no.3
Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Jack B Yeats Peintures, Feb. 1954, no.29
Dublin, Victor Waddington Galleries, Jack B Yeats Oil Paintings, Feb. 1955, no.16
Belfast, C.E.M.A., Museum and Art Gallery, Jack B Yeats Paintings, Feb.-March 1956, no.32
New York, Willard Gallery, Jack B Yeats Oil Paintings, March 1962, no.14 (illustrated in the catalogue)
Massachusetts, Institute of Technology, Jack B Yeats Loan Exhibition, Jan.-Feb. 1965, no.36 (illustrated in the catalogue)
Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, Jack B Yeats: a Centenary Exhibition, Sept.-Dec. 1971, no.130 (illustrated in colour in the catalogue): this exhibition travelled to Belfast, Ulster Museum, and New York, Cultural Centre, April-June 1972
Alabama, Museum of Art, Jack B Yeats: Irish Expressionist, March-April 1980, no.32 (illustrated in the catalogue)

Lot Essay

Hilary Pyle (loc. cit.) describes this work 'A girl stands on a broken pier, her shadow cast on the wall, looking out with bowed head, hands folded on her breast, at the sea touched with the golden light of morning ... The mood of this painting, rather than one of exhilaration, is gentle and reverent'

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