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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) A YOUNG MAN'S TROUBLES signed lower right watercolour,...

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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) A YOUNG MAN'S TROUBLES signed lower right watercolour,...
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
A YOUNG MAN'S TROUBLES
signed lower right
watercolour, pastel and pencil on paper
15 by 46cm., 6 by 18in.
Provenance:
Clausen Galleries, New York whence purchased by John Quinn in 1904;
Purchased by W. C. Murphy at the Quinn Collection Sale, American Art Galleries, New York, 10 February 1927, Lot 268
Exhibited:
'Sketches of Life in The West of Ireland', series of exhibitions:
Leinster Hall, Dublin, March 1900
Clarendon Hotel Oxford, 24-29 October 1900
Walker Art Gallery, London, February 1901
Clausen Galleries, New York, 31 March-16 April, 1904
Literature:
All Ireland Review, 10 March 1900, p.5;
Hilary Pyle Jack B. Yeats: His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1993, catalogue no. 267, p. 93
This work was described in the All Ireland Review of 10 March 1900 as depicting "a shop interior in a Connaught town; a sad-faced young man stands brooding at one side of a broad board or counter; behind him pasted on the wall are a row of emigration notices; in front of him, at the far side of the counter, two elderly men stand drinking, and they watch with kindly distant disinterest the working of his thoughts". Purchased by the famed art collector John Quinn - then Chairman of the board of the Metropolitan Museum and a great supporter of European modernists - the work was later sold as part of his collection, where it was listed in the inventory as 'The Bar'.
€20,000-€30,000 (IR £15,600-£23,400 approx.)
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