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

Halt

细节
Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
Halt
signed 'JACK B/YEATS' (lower left), inscribed 'HALT' (on the inside edge of the stretcher)
oil on canvas
14 x 21 in. (35.6 x 53.3 cm.)
Painted in 1951
来源
Victor Waddington, Dublin, where purchased by the Hon. Judge M. Bigelow.
Larry Bigelow, Switzerland.
Private Collection, 1978.
出版
H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings II, London, 1992, no.1091, p.994 (illustrated).
Idem., III, p.553 (illustrated).
展览
London, Wildenstein, Jack B. Yeats Recent Paintings, March 1953, no.22.
Dublin, Victor Waddington Galleries, Jack B. Yeats Oil Paintings, October 1953, no.8.
Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Jack B. Yeats Peintures, February 1954, no.37.
London, Victor Waddington, Jack B. Yeats Paintings, February-March 1975, no.15 (illustrated).
Montreal, Waddington Galleries, Jack B. Yeats Paintings, May-June 1975, no.13 (illustrated).
London, Theo Waddington, Jack B. Yeats Oil Paintings, October-November 1978, no.22 (illustrated).

拍品专文

Hilary Pyle (loc. cit.) writes of this work 'A confrontation between two characters in a landscape, an image repeated with many variations by Yeats ... Two men meet near a West of Ireland strand, with mountains in the background, the stranger with the wide-brimmed black hat casting a quizzical look at the man who stops him to eye him steadily. The emphasis here is not so much on aggression in the encounter (and the title does not carry subtones of similar meetings on Irish country roads during the Civil War) as on the continual question posed by the artist about metaphysical realities, in paintings of similar encounters, in latter years'.