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Artist: Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) Title: The Pannier Market (1906) Signature: signed 'JACK. B. YEATS' lower left Medium: watercolour and charcoal on paper Size: 36½ x 26.70cm (14.4 x 10.5in) Framed Size: 61 x 51cm (24 x 20.1in) Provenance: Bloomfield Hall, Sunningdale; Acquired from the niece of the owner of Broomfield Hall; Sotheby's, The Irish Art Sale, 9th May, 2007, lot 34; Collection of Theo Waddington; Private Collection Exhibited: Dublin, Leinster Hall, 'Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland', 1st - 20th October 1906, no.1; London, location untraced, Exhibition (arranged by Lady Dudley), December 1906 Literature: Hilary Pyle, 'Jack B. Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1992, no. 597 a#morebtn { color: #de1d01; } a#morebtn:hover { cursor: pointer;} Dressed in a voluminous red skirt, with embroidered jacket and bonnet, a street vendor sits beside large wicker baskets, one of which brims over with fish. She turns her head to the side, as if sheltering from the wind; her eyes are bright, and her complexion weather-beaten. In the background can be... Read more Jack Butler Yeats Lot 33 - 'The Pannier Market (1906)' Estimate: €15,000 - €25,000 Dressed in a voluminous red skirt, with embroidered jacket and bonnet, a street vendor sits beside large wicker baskets, one of which brims over with fish. She turns her head to the side, as if sheltering from the wind; her eyes are bright, and her complexion weather-beaten. In the background can be seen a pink house, with steps leading to a green door. The title suggests the scene is set at a Pannier Market. Such covered markets, with iron columns and glazed roofs, are a feature of Devon, and after their marriage in 1893, Jack and Cottie Yeats lived in the West Country, in the village of Strete, near Dartmouth. However this watercolour was shown in Dublin in 1906, in “Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland”, one of a series of exhibitions of works by Yeats held in Leinster Hall. Yeats was using the term “pannier market” in a generic sense and the scene is likely set in Sligo. In terms of style and colouring, this work compares closely with Market Day (1906) a watercolour in the collection of the Model Art Centre in Sligo. Yeats delighted in portraying markets and fairs, both in Ireland and England. In 1925 he loaned A Fair Day, Mayo to Eamon De Valera, who hung it in his office. Another scene, depicting a crowded street, with a shawled woman selling sweets, 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. An 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 black and white drawings of these lively days in which commerce and entertainment combined, including The Horse Fair of Ballinasloe, A June Fair, and A Western Fair. Peter Murray, January 2023