Artist: Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) Title: Fair Day Signature: inscribed 'Fair Day' lower left and signed 'Jack B. Yeats' lower right Medium: ink drawing Size: 16½ x 23cm (6.5 x 9.1in) Framed Size: 38.2 x 45cm (15 x 17.7in) Provenance: Dawson Gallery, Dublin (label verso); Collection of Mrs. Jobling-Purser; Maurice Edward Dear Gallery, Southampton (label verso); James Adams, Dublin, 28th March 2001 lot 51; Private Collection Exhibited: Dawson Gallery, Dublin: Jack B. Yeats: Watercolours and Pen and Ink Drawings, 1962, No.46; Arts Council of Northern Ireland: Jack B.Yeats: 1964, No.25 Literature: Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, André Deutsch, London, 1992, p.155, fig.177a, illustrated; Pyle, Hilary, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats: His Cartoons & Illustrations, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1994, p.287 cat. no. 2034, p.288 (illustrated) a#morebtn { color: #de1d01; } a#morebtn:hover { cursor: pointer;} Jack Yeats delighted in portraying fairs, the days when the streets of Irish towns bustled with activity; stall-holders and ballad singers, horses and donkeys, farmers and their cattle. His oil painting A Fair Day, Mayo was loaned in 1925 by the artist to Eamon De Valera, who hung it in his office.... Read more Jack Butler Yeats Lot 11 - 'Fair Day' Estimate: €8,000 - €12,000 Jack Yeats delighted in portraying fairs, the days when the streets of Irish towns bustled with activity; stall-holders and ballad singers, horses and donkeys, farmers and their cattle. His oil painting A Fair Day, Mayo was loaned in 1925 by the artist to Eamon De Valera, who hung it in his office. Another fair scene by Yeats, a watercolour depicting a crowded street, with a shawled woman selling sweets to children, probably dates from two decades earlier, when the artist and John Millington Synge travelled in the West of Ireland, documenting everyday life for the Manchester Guardian. His ink drawing On the Stones, the Cattle Market, Caledonian Road, depicts a cattle fair in London and also dates from 1905. Published seven years later, Yeats's book Life in the West of Ireland contains several black and white drawings of these lively days in which commerce and entertainment were combined, including The Horse Fair of Ballinasloe, A June Fair, and A Western Fair, where tents have been set up in field, with card sharps gather around a barrel top. The present ink drawing, dating from around 1908, formed the basis for a Cuala Press print (No. 13) and was later, in 1935, reproduced in a Cuala calendar. It depicts a smiling man, proudly mounted on a white horse that prances along a town street, with, behind, a line of barrows and carts on which stalls have been set up. On the left a woman sells sweets to children in front of a hardware shop, that same emporium that appears in so many images by Yeats, selling everything from harnesses and sickles, to billhooks and brooms. Peter Murray, March 2021
Artist: Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) Title: Fair Day Signature: inscribed 'Fair Day' lower left and signed 'Jack B. Yeats' lower right Medium: ink drawing Size: 16½ x 23cm (6.5 x 9.1in) Framed Size: 38.2 x 45cm (15 x 17.7in) Provenance: Dawson Gallery, Dublin (label verso); Collection of Mrs. Jobling-Purser; Maurice Edward Dear Gallery, Southampton (label verso); James Adams, Dublin, 28th March 2001 lot 51; Private Collection Exhibited: Dawson Gallery, Dublin: Jack B. Yeats: Watercolours and Pen and Ink Drawings, 1962, No.46; Arts Council of Northern Ireland: Jack B.Yeats: 1964, No.25 Literature: Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, André Deutsch, London, 1992, p.155, fig.177a, illustrated; Pyle, Hilary, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats: His Cartoons & Illustrations, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1994, p.287 cat. no. 2034, p.288 (illustrated) a#morebtn { color: #de1d01; } a#morebtn:hover { cursor: pointer;} Jack Yeats delighted in portraying fairs, the days when the streets of Irish towns bustled with activity; stall-holders and ballad singers, horses and donkeys, farmers and their cattle. His oil painting A Fair Day, Mayo was loaned in 1925 by the artist to Eamon De Valera, who hung it in his office.... Read more Jack Butler Yeats Lot 11 - 'Fair Day' Estimate: €8,000 - €12,000 Jack Yeats delighted in portraying fairs, the days when the streets of Irish towns bustled with activity; stall-holders and ballad singers, horses and donkeys, farmers and their cattle. His oil painting A Fair Day, Mayo was loaned in 1925 by the artist to Eamon De Valera, who hung it in his office. Another fair scene by Yeats, a watercolour depicting a crowded street, with a shawled woman selling sweets to children, probably dates from two decades earlier, when the artist and John Millington Synge travelled in the West of Ireland, documenting everyday life for the Manchester Guardian. His ink drawing On the Stones, the Cattle Market, Caledonian Road, depicts a cattle fair in London and also dates from 1905. Published seven years later, Yeats's book Life in the West of Ireland contains several black and white drawings of these lively days in which commerce and entertainment were combined, including The Horse Fair of Ballinasloe, A June Fair, and A Western Fair, where tents have been set up in field, with card sharps gather around a barrel top. The present ink drawing, dating from around 1908, formed the basis for a Cuala Press print (No. 13) and was later, in 1935, reproduced in a Cuala calendar. It depicts a smiling man, proudly mounted on a white horse that prances along a town street, with, behind, a line of barrows and carts on which stalls have been set up. On the left a woman sells sweets to children in front of a hardware shop, that same emporium that appears in so many images by Yeats, selling everything from harnesses and sickles, to billhooks and brooms. Peter Murray, March 2021
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