Lot 25 Jack Butler Yeats TRALEE

Jack Butler Yeats RHA 1871 - 1957
TRALEE (1924)
Oil on canvas, 14" x 18" (35.5 x 20.3cm), signed

Provenance: Leo Smith, Dawson Gallery, Dublin; J.P. Reihill, Dublin, purchased from the above, 1944;

Sean Lemass; C. J Haughey; Private Collection.

Exhibited: London, Gieves Art Gallery, Jack B. Yeats, Pictures of Irish Life, 1924, no. 32;

Dublin, Engineers Hall, Jack B. Yeats – Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland, 1924, no. 8;

Birmingham, Ruskin Gallery, Jack B. Yeats, Paintings of Ireland, 1927, no. 21;

Dublin, National College of Art, National Loan Exhibition, 1945, no. 39

Literature: Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, André Deutsch, London, 1922, p.201, no. 224, pl. 271, illustrated in colour. T.G. Rosenthal, The Art of Jack B. Yeats, André Deutsch, London 1933, p. 276, no. 26, pl. 73, illustrated in colour.