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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) CARRYING SEAWEED FOR KELP signed lower left pen and in...

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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) CARRYING SEAWEED FOR KELP signed lower left pen and in...
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
CARRYING SEAWEED FOR KELP
signed lower left
pen and ink with watercolour
29 by 23cm., 11.5 by 9in.
Provenance:
Sold in 1918 to Ignatius J. O'Brien;
Catalogued as 'Bringing Home the Kelp' at Christie's, Dublin, 12 December 1990, Lot 19 (colour reproduction)
Private Collection, Dublin
Exhibited:
'Drawings and Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland', Mills Hall, Dublin, 23 March - 6 April 1918, catalogue no. 26
Literature:
Illustrated in the Irish Independent, 11 May 1909;
Hilary Pyle, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats: His Cartoons and Illustrations, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1994, catalogue no. 1365.
This work was drawn as an illustration to John M. Synge's The Aran Islands (Maunsel & Co., Dublin, 1907) and originally appeared facing page 84. In a letter to the prominent New York collector, John Quinn, dated 28 July 1906, Yeats wrote that he had completed all twelve illustrations for the book. Publication however, was delayed, and the first, limited edition of 150 copies - signed by both Synge and Yeats - did not appear until the following year. The book was an immediate success and subsequently reprinted many times. Most of the other eleven drawings are in private collections, with one in the NGI and one in the Sligo County Library and Museum.
€20,000-€30,000 (IR £23,400-£31,200 approx.)
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