Here She Comes!

Details

Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
Here She Comes!
signed 'JACK.B.YEATS' (lower left) and inscribed 'HERE SHE COMES' (on the reverse) and inscribed again twice 'HERE SHE COMES' (on the inside of the stretcher)
oil on canvas
24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.5 cm.)
Painted in 1913.

Provenance

Sold by the artist to Kathleen Fox (Mrs Pym) in 1945.
with Dawson Gallery, Dublin, March 1967, where purchased by the present owners.

Literature

Colour Magazine 11, no. 2, London, September 1919, p. 37, illustrated.
The Studio LXXXII, London, 1921, p. 294, illustrated.
H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings I, London, 1992, p. 73, no. 86, illustrated, and II, p. 35, illustrated.

Exhibited

Dublin, Mills Hall, Jack B. Yeats Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland, February - March 1914, no. 32.
London, Allied Artists Exhibition, 1914.
London, Little Art Rooms, Jack B Yeats Drawings and Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland, May - June 1919, no. 7.
Dublin, An tOireachtas, An Chéad Taispeàntas Ealadhan, August 1920.
Belfast, Art Society, 1920.
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Autumn Exhibition, September 1921, no. 925.
Paris, Galeries Barbazanges, Exposition d'Art Irlandais, January - February 1922, no. 85.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Hilary Pyle (loc. cit.) comments on this work: ''Here She Comes' was described in the Studio (op. cit.) in 1921 as one of the outstanding works in the exhibition. 'It stood nearly beyond vision, being skied ...'; but this did not detract from the reviewer's opinion of its excellence. It is a diagonal view of one sulky drawn by a pale grey pony chasing another round the corner of the racing-track. There are figures of spectators and stall vendors in the foreground. The strong shadows and bright colours anticipate paintings of five years later, when Yeats had a constant interest in the effects of shadow; and there is a clever use of space, divided into still and active areas, reminiscent of early watercolours such as A Runaway (see Pyle, Watercolours, 36)'.

This work has the alternative titles of 'Now She's Coming', or 'Trotting Match'.

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