Artist: Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) Title: Through the Woods to the Sea (1951) Signature: signed 'JACK B YEATS' lower right Medium: oil on board Size: 22.80 x 35.60cm (9 x 14in) Framed Size: 37 x 50cm (14.6 x 19.7in) Provenance: Collection of T.D. Maidment, Berkshire; Christie's London, 20th Century British & Irish Art, 17th November 2011 lot 226; Private Collection Literature: Jack Butler Yeats A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings by Hilary Pyle, Volume II, London, 1992, Catalogue no. 1081, p. 984. a#morebtn { color: #de1d01; } a#morebtn:hover { cursor: pointer;} Half-hidden amongst trees on the left of this composition, a motionless figure stands on a pathway, looking out beyond the woods towards a bright sea. The painting is as much dreamscape as landscape, with rapid, fluid passages of paint, either pure colour, or mixed on the panel with a palette knife.... Read more Jack Butler Yeats Lot 20 - 'Through the Woods to the Sea (1951)' Estimate: €50,000 - €70,000 Half-hidden amongst trees on the left of this composition, a motionless figure stands on a pathway, looking out beyond the woods towards a bright sea. The painting is as much dreamscape as landscape, with rapid, fluid passages of paint, either pure colour, or mixed on the panel with a palette knife. The underpainting is pink, giving a warmth to the overlaid colours of green, blue and yellow, which Yeats has applied with a swirling, flickering rapidity. Here and there, the metal edge of the palette knife has left an incised line in the oil paint. The landscape has echoes of Watteau, the eighteenth-century French artist whose work Yeats greatly admired, but also evokes the Romantic artist Casper David Friedrich, in many of whose paintings a solitary figure, seen from behind, gazes into the distance. With consummate skill, working on a relatively small scale, Yeats creates a work of art in which imagination and reality mingle freely, and which expresses his profound love of Irish life and landscape, particularly Co. Sligo, where he spent the happiest periods of his childhood. It is a late work in the artist's oeuvre, painted just three years after the death of his wife, and marks a point where Yeats's creative genius had reached a high level of expressionist freedom, mixing not only oil colours, but also emotions, memories and feelings. Peter Murray, October 2022
Artist: Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) Title: Through the Woods to the Sea (1951) Signature: signed 'JACK B YEATS' lower right Medium: oil on board Size: 22.80 x 35.60cm (9 x 14in) Framed Size: 37 x 50cm (14.6 x 19.7in) Provenance: Collection of T.D. Maidment, Berkshire; Christie's London, 20th Century British & Irish Art, 17th November 2011 lot 226; Private Collection Literature: Jack Butler Yeats A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings by Hilary Pyle, Volume II, London, 1992, Catalogue no. 1081, p. 984. a#morebtn { color: #de1d01; } a#morebtn:hover { cursor: pointer;} Half-hidden amongst trees on the left of this composition, a motionless figure stands on a pathway, looking out beyond the woods towards a bright sea. The painting is as much dreamscape as landscape, with rapid, fluid passages of paint, either pure colour, or mixed on the panel with a palette knife.... Read more Jack Butler Yeats Lot 20 - 'Through the Woods to the Sea (1951)' Estimate: €50,000 - €70,000 Half-hidden amongst trees on the left of this composition, a motionless figure stands on a pathway, looking out beyond the woods towards a bright sea. The painting is as much dreamscape as landscape, with rapid, fluid passages of paint, either pure colour, or mixed on the panel with a palette knife. The underpainting is pink, giving a warmth to the overlaid colours of green, blue and yellow, which Yeats has applied with a swirling, flickering rapidity. Here and there, the metal edge of the palette knife has left an incised line in the oil paint. The landscape has echoes of Watteau, the eighteenth-century French artist whose work Yeats greatly admired, but also evokes the Romantic artist Casper David Friedrich, in many of whose paintings a solitary figure, seen from behind, gazes into the distance. With consummate skill, working on a relatively small scale, Yeats creates a work of art in which imagination and reality mingle freely, and which expresses his profound love of Irish life and landscape, particularly Co. Sligo, where he spent the happiest periods of his childhood. It is a late work in the artist's oeuvre, painted just three years after the death of his wife, and marks a point where Yeats's creative genius had reached a high level of expressionist freedom, mixing not only oil colours, but also emotions, memories and feelings. Peter Murray, October 2022
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