ADAM'S - Important Irish Art Auction - 31st May 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings

by Hilary Pyle, London: André Deutsch, 1992. Three

volumes, 1856pp with 1822 illustrations, 111 in colour.

Cloth in a slipcase, fine unopened condition. Defini-

tive catalogue raisonné of Ireland’s greatest painter,

bringing together every known oil painting by Yeats,

providing further documentary illustrations where ap-

propriate and citing all relevant sources and influences.

No. 399 from an edition limited to 1500, a must have

for anyone interested in the history of Irish art and

work of Jack B. Yeats. Mint unopened condition.

€ 300 - 500

Watercolour, 28 x 44.5cm (11 x 17½’’)

Signed with monogram

Exhibited:

‘Jack B. Yeats: Watercolours and Drawings Exhibition

’, The Dawson Gallery, December 1962, Catalogue No.65;

‘North West Arts Festival’, ACNI Derry, April 1964, Catalogue No.47;

‘May Festival’, ACNI Belfast, May 1964, Catalogue No.47, where purchased by J. McKinney.

Provenance: With The Oriel Gallery, where purchased in 1991 by current owners.

Literature:

‘Jack B. Yeats: His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels

’ by Hilary Pyle (1993), Catalogue No.684, p.162 illustrated;

‘A Vision of Ireland: Jack B. Yeats’, by John Booth (1993), plate 10.

Hilary Pyle has written of this work:

‘Dated 1910 when it was first exhibited in 1962, the watercolour resembles the Valley Wood watercolours of 1900 in its liquid

broad style and lush colouring. Glencree lies to the west of Enniskerry, on the borders of Dublin and Wicklow. Yeats left Dev-

on in July 1910, to settle in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, and may have painted this watercolour soon after the move. However,

from the point of view of manner and approach it is more probably one of his Dublin landscapes of 1900.’

Our thanks to Hilary Pyle whose writings and research formed the basis of this catalogue entry.

€ 5,000 - 7,000