拍品專文
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'.