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THE PUBLIC LETTER WRITER by Jack Butler Yeats
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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
THE PUBLIC LETTER WRITER
Oil on board, 14” x 20 ¾” (35.5 x 53cm), signed, inscribed verso.
Provenance: Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin; Sir Basil Goulding, Co. Wicklow, thence by descent to the previous owner; Adams Irish Art 4/12/2007 (lot 96); Private Collection.
Exhibited: London, 1958, Waddington Galleries, No 2; Dublin Nov/Dec 1961 Municipal Gallery, One Man's Meat-:The Basil Goulding Collection, Catalogue No 30. Literature: Yeats, Jack B., Sligo (1930); Pyle, Hilary, Jack B. Yeats - A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, Catalogue No 1147 Hilary Pyle has written:
A reminiscence in fantasy of a character whom Yeats saw in New York in 1904, on a visit which made a lasting impression on him (see 582 etc.) He wrote in Sligo: ‘I saw in a Street in New York a card writer, I mean a writer of visiting cards. He turned them out at ten preparing letters on behalf of illiterate people in the Western States, and his solemn face has an expression of sympathetic wisdom.’
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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
THE PUBLIC LETTER WRITER
Oil on board, 14” x 20 ¾” (35.5 x 53cm), signed, inscribed verso.
Provenance: Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin; Sir Basil Goulding, Co. Wicklow, thence by descent to the previous owner; Adams Irish Art 4/12/2007 (lot 96); Private Collection.
Exhibited: London, 1958, Waddington Galleries, No 2; Dublin Nov/Dec 1961 Municipal Gallery, One Man's Meat-:The Basil Goulding Collection, Catalogue No 30. Literature: Yeats, Jack B., Sligo (1930); Pyle, Hilary, Jack B. Yeats - A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, Catalogue No 1147 Hilary Pyle has written:
A reminiscence in fantasy of a character whom Yeats saw in New York in 1904, on a visit which made a lasting impression on him (see 582 etc.) He wrote in Sligo: ‘I saw in a Street in New York a card writer, I mean a writer of visiting cards. He turned them out at ten preparing letters on behalf of illiterate people in the Western States, and his solemn face has an expression of sympathetic wisdom.’
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