The Fair of Ballinasloe

Details

Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
The Fair of Ballinasloe
signed 'JACK B YEATS' (lower left)
pen, black ink, watercolour and bodycolour
6 x 13½ in. (15.2 x 34.3 cm.)
Executed in 1905

Provenance

with Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by the present owner, June 1962.

Literature

H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings I, London, 1992, p. 155.
H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Dublin, 1993, no. 567, p. 144.
H. Pyle, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats His Cartoons and Illustrations, Dublin, 1994, no. 1709, pp. 237-8, illustrated.

Exhibited

Dublin, Leinster Hall, Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland, October 1905, no. 24.
London, Walker Art Gallery, Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland, February 1908, no. 29.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present work relates closely to Yeats's 1922 oil Fair Day and Hilary Pyle (loc. cit.) comments, 'A farmer dressed in a long grey coat and a black broad-brimmed hat rides on a chestnut stallion along the street of a country town, passing some green railings. The figure is similar to that of the horseman in Cuala Print 13 (c. 1908-1915), and seems to have originated in the drawing of The Fair of Ballinasloe in A Broadsheet no. 15 (March 1903)'.

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