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10 JACK BUTLER YEATS RHA (1871-1957)Kerry Landscape (1913)
Oil on panel, 23 x 35.5cm (9 x 14”)
Signed
Provenance: Sold through Leo Smith, the Dawson Gallery to Senator Joseph Brennan and thence by descent
Yeats painted several oil landscapes of Tralee Bay and Castlegregory on a visit to Kerry in 1913. It is likely that his work dates to this period
and may depict the coast from the Maharees or Derrymore Island. The work was part of the collection of the prominent collector and
champion of modern Irish art, Senator Joseph Brennan.
Yeats’s landscapes explored the Western coastline in all its drama and diversity, a theme that he found endlessly fascinating. In this work, as
in many of his later more fanciful depictions of the Atlantic coast, the horizon line provides the pivotal midpoint of the composition, adding
to the immense sense of space and calm that the view imparts. Rich impasto paint is used to convey the swirling sands of the bay as they
intersect with the tide. Rich rosy tints introduce an element of warmth to the palette. The tone is subtly complimented by the pale blue of
the seawater.
Dr Roisin Kennedy, September 2016
€ 20,000 - 30,000