Jack Butler Yeats
THE TOP OF THE FALL (1945)
Lot 107
Price Realised:
€55,000
Estimate:
€40,000 - €60,000
Jack Butler Yeats RHA, 1871-1957
THE TOP OF THE FALL (1945)
Oil on panel, 9" x 14" (22.8 x 45.6cm), signed; inscribed verso.
Provenance: Sold Victor Waddington Galleries, 1945: Mr Hunter; James Adam, Dublin ,1969; Private Collection, Ir...
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Lot 107
Jack Butler Yeats
THE TOP OF THE FALL (1945)
Lot 107
Jack Butler Yeats
THE TOP OF THE FALL (1945)
Estimate:
€40,000 - €60,000
Jack Butler Yeats RHA, 1871-1957
THE TOP OF THE FALL (1945)
Oil on panel, 9" x 14" (22.8 x 45.6cm), signed; inscribed verso.
Provenance: Sold Victor Waddington Galleries, 1945: Mr Hunter; James Adam, Dublin ,1969; Private Collection, Ireland; Adams, Important Irish Art, Dublin, 2nd December 2015, No. 63: Private Collection, Dublin.
Exhibited: Jack B Yeats Exhibition Sligo County Museum and Art Gallery, Aug - Sept 1989, Catalogue No. 43
Literature: Jack B Yeats - A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings by Hilary Pyle, Catalogue No. 680, page 617 (Vol II)
Hilary Pyle lists this picture as 'a memory of Glencar Waterfall, Co. Sligo'. Located about eight miles from Sligo town, the waterfall flows into the lake of Glencar, inland from Drumcliffe, where Yeats's grandfather had been rector for many years and where his brother, W.B. Yeats is buried. The Yeats siblings visited Glencar regularly as children when they stayed with their grandparents in Sligo. W.B. Yeats used the location as a setting for his poem, The Stolen Child.
Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce would bathe a star, . (W.B. Yeats, The Stolen Child, 1886).
Glencar Waterfall appears in several works by Jack B. Yeats, most famously as the backdrop to In Memory of Boucicault and Bianconi, (1937, National Gallery of Ireland) and in Glencar, Co. Sligo, (1949, Private Collection).
THE TOP OF THE FALL (1945)
Oil on panel, 9" x 14" (22.8 x 45.6cm), signed; inscribed verso.
Provenance: Sold Victor Waddington Galleries, 1945: Mr Hunter; James Adam, Dublin ,1969; Private Collection, Ireland; Adams, Important Irish Art, Dublin, 2nd December 2015, No. 63: Private Collection, Dublin.
Exhibited: Jack B Yeats Exhibition Sligo County Museum and Art Gallery, Aug - Sept 1989, Catalogue No. 43
Literature: Jack B Yeats - A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings by Hilary Pyle, Catalogue No. 680, page 617 (Vol II)
Hilary Pyle lists this picture as 'a memory of Glencar Waterfall, Co. Sligo'. Located about eight miles from Sligo town, the waterfall flows into the lake of Glencar, inland from Drumcliffe, where Yeats's grandfather had been rector for many years and where his brother, W.B. Yeats is buried. The Yeats siblings visited Glencar regularly as children when they stayed with their grandparents in Sligo. W.B. Yeats used the location as a setting for his poem, The Stolen Child.
Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce would bathe a star, . (W.B. Yeats, The Stolen Child, 1886).
Glencar Waterfall appears in several works by Jack B. Yeats, most famously as the backdrop to In Memory of Boucicault and Bianconi, (1937, National Gallery of Ireland) and in Glencar, Co. Sligo, (1949, Private Collection).
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