Lot 93 Jack Butler Yeats

Jack B. Yeats RHA, 1871-1957 THE HIGH SHORE OF THE LAKE Oil on board, 9'' x 14'' (23 x 35.5cm), signed, inscribed verso, inscribed 1952 label verso. Provenance: Dr. Terence Fulton, Belfast, Victor Waddington, London, Private collection, London 1973. Literature: Hilary Pyle's ''Jack B Yeats - A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings'', No 1105, pg.1008, where she writes, ''One of the small lake paintings made by Yeats at various stages of his career (118, 122, 549 ff., 1025; see also Pyle, Watercolours, 215 ff.), starting with his watercolours of Coole Lake in County Galway on visits to Lady Gregory, and later his watercolours of Lough Gill in Sligo. The painting here is focused on the sandy shore of a lake, the reeds, and a thicket, which assumes a symbolic character in the dark tones of its cave-like interior and the tangled rich colour of its foliage''.