Property from an Important Collection of Irish Paintings
Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A.
The Amateur Ventriloquist
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A.
1871 - 1957
The Amateur Ventriloquist
signed Jack B Yeats (lower right)
oil on canvas
unframed: 46 by 61 cm. 18 by 24 in.
framed: 65 by 79.5 cm. 25½ by 31¼ in.
Executed in 1945.
Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, where acquired by Senator John E. MacEllin, Dublin, 1946
Thence by family descent to Mrs Una MacEllin, Dublin
Private Collection
Sale, Christie's, London, 12 March 1993, lot 56
Pyms Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner
Leeds, Temple Newsam House, Jack B. Yeats, June - August 1948, no. 58, with tour to Tate Gallery, London and Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
Manchester, City Art Galleries, Jack. B. Yeats: A Celtic Visionary, 9 March - 21 April 1996, no. 14, illustrated in the exh.cat., with tour to Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
Hilary Pyle, Jack. B Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, II, Andre Deutsch, London, 1992, no. 729, p. 656
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