The Bottle of Florida Water

Details

Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
The Bottle of Florida Water
signed 'JACK B. YEATS' (lower left)
watercolour
14½ x 10½ in. (36.8 x 26.7 cm.)
Executed in 1903.

Provenance

with Waddington Fine Art, Montreal, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Dublin, 1993, p. 127, no. 473, illustrated.

Exhibited

Dublin, Central Hall, Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland, August - September 1903, no. 16.
New York, The Clausen Galleries, Recent Watercolours, March - April 1904, no. 46.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Yeats wrote in 1904 "Florida water is always brought home by Irish sailors who have been in the States. This shows the girl's sweetheart is a sailor" (see H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Dublin, 1993, p. 127).

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