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THE STREET PERFORMER by Jack B Yeats
THE STREET PERFORMER (1947)
Oil on canvas, 18" x 24" (46 x 61cm), signed.
Provenance: Waddington Galleries, Montreal, 1961; J. L. McKay-Clements; Mr and Mrs J. L. McKay-Clements, Toronto; Private Collection, Ireland.Exhibited: 1947 Dublin (2); 1961 Montreal (15) (repro)
Literature: ‘Jack B. Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings’ by Hilary Pyle, No 883, Vol II, which states:
A marvelous image of a juggler in the dark street, gyrating bottles in the air. A horse and rider, seen in the foreground – enhanced, like the juggler’s torso, by the light breaking through the smoky dark blue atmosphere – turn away from sight. The oil looks back to the watercolour of 1899, The Street Juggler (Pyle Watercolours, 178)
THE STREET PERFORMER (1947)
Oil on canvas, 18" x 24" (46 x 61cm), signed.
Provenance: Waddington Galleries, Montreal, 1961; J. L. McKay-Clements; Mr and Mrs J. L. McKay-Clements, Toronto; Private Collection, Ireland.Exhibited: 1947 Dublin (2); 1961 Montreal (15) (repro)
Literature: ‘Jack B. Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings’ by Hilary Pyle, No 883, Vol II, which states:
A marvelous image of a juggler in the dark street, gyrating bottles in the air. A horse and rider, seen in the foreground – enhanced, like the juggler’s torso, by the light breaking through the smoky dark blue atmosphere – turn away from sight. The oil looks back to the watercolour of 1899, The Street Juggler (Pyle Watercolours, 178)
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