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SEA FOG, 1909 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)

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SEA FOG, 1909 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)

Aufrufpreis
8.000 € - 10.000 €
ca. 9.389 $ - 11.737 $
Zuschlagspreis:
12.200 €
ca. 14.319 $
Beschreibung:

SEA FOG, 1909 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
Signature: signed lower right Medium: watercolour Dimensions: 14 x 10in. (35.56 x 25.40cm) Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by John Quinn (1870-1924) 1909; His sale, 'Paintings and Sculptures - The Renowned Collection of Modern and Ultra-Modern Art Formed by the Late John Quinn, Including Many Examples Purchased by Him Directly from Artists, Sold by Order of National Bank of Commerce in New York & Maurice Léon Surviving Executors of the Estate of John Quinn, Deceased, New York American Art Association Inc., 1927, catalogue no. 305; Whence purchased by J. Toner; Private collection Exhibited: Literature: Pyle, Hilary, Jack B. Yeats: His watercolours Drawings and Pastels, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1993, no. 666, p.159 An old mariner in a heavy coat, red scarf and dark brown cap strides away from the quayside. He has a distinctive gait, with hunched shoulders, hands deep in his pockets and nimble legs, suggesting hi... is years moving about on-board ship. The distinctive combination of robust greens and purples found in many of Yeats' early watercolours is evident here. The shadow cast on the man's shoulders is a deep green while tones of pink suggest the foggy atmosphere of the waterside and the ethereal forms of the waterfront buildings. The painting is described in the catalogue of the posthumous sale of paintings and sculpture belonging to John Quinn, the Irish American lawyer and collector of Modernist art and literature. Lot 305 of the 1927 American Art Association catalogue states 'Figure of an old seafaring man, wearing a pea-jacket and muffler, sauntering from the quay, enveloped in a dull mist through which the masts of a brig faintly gleam in the background'. Quinn was the owner of several important works by Jack Yeats and was responsible for the artist's participation in the famous Armory Show of Modern art in New York in 1913. He was also a close friend and mentor of Jack's father, John Butler Yeats, who moved to the United States in 1908, and of his brother W.B. Yeats. Quinn bought Sea Fog in Dublin on a brief visit to the city in the summer of 1909 after it was included in a one-man show of Jack's work at the Leinster Hall. Quinn was a great admirer of the younger Yeats. In 1904, after Jack and his wife stayed in New York, Quinn wrote, 'He is one of the most simple and unaffected kind-hearted genuine and sincere men I have ever met and I like him more than I can tell'. [1] The exhibition of 1909 in which Sea Fog was included was a critical success. Constance Markievicz commented on the quality of the work shown in it in an article published in the Gaelic American that year. Jack's work, she wrote, 'with its intense originality and life-likeness, seems to appeal to us with almost a shock, and to demand its just due, … as something real and new….'.[2] Yeats and Cottie had travelled in the west of Ireland the previous year, staying mainly in Sligo, where the idea for Sea Fog is likely to have originated. The figure of the old sea dog striding up the town ultimately stems from the childhood fascination that Yeats had for the seafaring life. This began with his journeys along the Garavogue in the ships belonging to his grandparents and his uncles and his great regard for the wisdom of the pilot men, stevedores and gangers that worked on the Sligo quays. 1. B. L. Reid, The Man from New York. John Quinn and His Friends, Oxford University Press, 1968, p.21. 2. Quoted in Bruce Arnold, Jack Yeats, Yale University Press, 1998, pp.160-61. Dr Róisín Kennedy August 201 more

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 22
Auktion:
Datum:
02.10.2017
Auktionshaus:
Whyte & Sons Auctioneers Ltd
Molesworth Street 38
Dublin 2
Irland
info@whytes.ie
+353 (0)1 676 2888
Beschreibung:

SEA FOG, 1909 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
Signature: signed lower right Medium: watercolour Dimensions: 14 x 10in. (35.56 x 25.40cm) Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by John Quinn (1870-1924) 1909; His sale, 'Paintings and Sculptures - The Renowned Collection of Modern and Ultra-Modern Art Formed by the Late John Quinn, Including Many Examples Purchased by Him Directly from Artists, Sold by Order of National Bank of Commerce in New York & Maurice Léon Surviving Executors of the Estate of John Quinn, Deceased, New York American Art Association Inc., 1927, catalogue no. 305; Whence purchased by J. Toner; Private collection Exhibited: Literature: Pyle, Hilary, Jack B. Yeats: His watercolours Drawings and Pastels, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1993, no. 666, p.159 An old mariner in a heavy coat, red scarf and dark brown cap strides away from the quayside. He has a distinctive gait, with hunched shoulders, hands deep in his pockets and nimble legs, suggesting hi... is years moving about on-board ship. The distinctive combination of robust greens and purples found in many of Yeats' early watercolours is evident here. The shadow cast on the man's shoulders is a deep green while tones of pink suggest the foggy atmosphere of the waterside and the ethereal forms of the waterfront buildings. The painting is described in the catalogue of the posthumous sale of paintings and sculpture belonging to John Quinn, the Irish American lawyer and collector of Modernist art and literature. Lot 305 of the 1927 American Art Association catalogue states 'Figure of an old seafaring man, wearing a pea-jacket and muffler, sauntering from the quay, enveloped in a dull mist through which the masts of a brig faintly gleam in the background'. Quinn was the owner of several important works by Jack Yeats and was responsible for the artist's participation in the famous Armory Show of Modern art in New York in 1913. He was also a close friend and mentor of Jack's father, John Butler Yeats, who moved to the United States in 1908, and of his brother W.B. Yeats. Quinn bought Sea Fog in Dublin on a brief visit to the city in the summer of 1909 after it was included in a one-man show of Jack's work at the Leinster Hall. Quinn was a great admirer of the younger Yeats. In 1904, after Jack and his wife stayed in New York, Quinn wrote, 'He is one of the most simple and unaffected kind-hearted genuine and sincere men I have ever met and I like him more than I can tell'. [1] The exhibition of 1909 in which Sea Fog was included was a critical success. Constance Markievicz commented on the quality of the work shown in it in an article published in the Gaelic American that year. Jack's work, she wrote, 'with its intense originality and life-likeness, seems to appeal to us with almost a shock, and to demand its just due, … as something real and new….'.[2] Yeats and Cottie had travelled in the west of Ireland the previous year, staying mainly in Sligo, where the idea for Sea Fog is likely to have originated. The figure of the old sea dog striding up the town ultimately stems from the childhood fascination that Yeats had for the seafaring life. This began with his journeys along the Garavogue in the ships belonging to his grandparents and his uncles and his great regard for the wisdom of the pilot men, stevedores and gangers that worked on the Sligo quays. 1. B. L. Reid, The Man from New York. John Quinn and His Friends, Oxford University Press, 1968, p.21. 2. Quoted in Bruce Arnold, Jack Yeats, Yale University Press, 1998, pp.160-61. Dr Róisín Kennedy August 201 more

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 22
Auktion:
Datum:
02.10.2017
Auktionshaus:
Whyte & Sons Auctioneers Ltd
Molesworth Street 38
Dublin 2
Irland
info@whytes.ie
+353 (0)1 676 2888
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