Lot Essay
The title is taken from Douglas Hyde's play, Casadh an tSugáin (The Twisting of the Rope). Yeats saw and sketched the play when he was in Dublin in October 1901.
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THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT F. AND PATRICIA G. ROSS WEIS
JACK BUTLER YEATS (1871-1957)
The Twisting of the Rope
Details
JACK BUTLER YEATS (1871-1957)
The Twisting of the Rope
signed 'JACK.B.YEATS' (lower left), signed again 'Jack B Yeats' (lower right) and titled and inscribed 'An Craoibhin ds Hanrahan in The Twisting of The Rope' (lower center)
watercolor, brush and black ink and pen and India ink on card
Image size: 6 ½ x 5 3⁄8 in. (16.6 x 13.7 cm.)
Card size: 9 ¼ x 6 ¼ in. (23.5 x 15.7 cm.)
Executed in 1905
The Twisting of the Rope
signed 'JACK.B.YEATS' (lower left), signed again 'Jack B Yeats' (lower right) and titled and inscribed 'An Craoibhin ds Hanrahan in The Twisting of The Rope' (lower center)
watercolor, brush and black ink and pen and India ink on card
Image size: 6 ½ x 5 3⁄8 in. (16.6 x 13.7 cm.)
Card size: 9 ¼ x 6 ¼ in. (23.5 x 15.7 cm.)
Executed in 1905
Provenance
Tom Kelly, United States (October 1905).
Literature
H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Dublin, 1993, p. 145, no. 571.
Exhibited
Dublin, Leinster Hall, Jack Butler Yeats: Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland, October 1905, no. 43A.
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