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Auction archive: Lot number 40

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) Rosses

IMPORTANT IRISH ART
29 Sep 2021
Estimate
€120,000 - €160,000
ca. US$139,985 - US$186,647
Price realised:
€140,000
ca. US$163,316
Auction archive: Lot number 40

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) Rosses

IMPORTANT IRISH ART
29 Sep 2021
Estimate
€120,000 - €160,000
ca. US$139,985 - US$186,647
Price realised:
€140,000
ca. US$163,316
Beschreibung:

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) Rosses Point, Salute/Farewell to Rosses Point Oil on panel, 23 x 35.5cm (9 x 14'') Signed; inscribed verso Provenance: Sold by the artist to Dr. Somerville Large, 1946; private collection. Literature: Hilary Pyle, Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, Volume II, page 675, illustration 749. A man stands on the deck of a ship and bids farewell to Rosses Point. He gazes across the water to the village and the landscape of Sligo beyond. Looking over his shoulders, we see the same view as he – little houses above the waterline and a small sailing boat in the sea below them. The title Farewell to Rosses Point or the alternative Salute to Rosses Point seems to refer to Yeats’s sense of leaving and never seeing again the village in which he had spent much of his childhood, and which had many personal memories and significance for him. Situated at the mouth of the Garavogue River, which flows out from the Sligo quays, Rosses Point marks the entry into the Atlantic Ocean. As a boy, Yeats frequently travelled on the pilot boats that guided the large merchant ships from here into Sligo town. Several works of the 1940s, painted like this when Yeats was in his seventies, refer to Sligo and Rosses Point including Men of Destiny (1946, National Gallery of Ireland). The artist used painting to process his memories of Sligo at a time when familial connections were no longer extant and when he rarely visited the region. The sky, land and water are formed from an unbridled mixture of pigment and a diversity of texture from which we can decipher the forms of the dwellings, mountains, and coastline. The figure is made of thick impasto while parts of the sky are without any paint, and the white surface of the panel is revealed. The clouds are fashioned from swirling forms of blue and parts of the sea are scraped back in a rhythmic fashion found in many of Yeats’s late works. The palette is predominantly blue and white with touches of yellow, red and orange that suggests the constant movement of light and shadow across the vista. Yeats sold the painting directly to Dr. L. B. Somerville Large in August 1946. In a letter to the doctor, the artist tells him that he painted the work ‘with real enjoyment’. This is evident, perhaps, in its vivacious surface and light tonality. Far from being a lament, it celebrates the energy of the terrain and the vividness of Yeats’s memory of it. Dr. Roisin Kennedy August 2021 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) Rosses Point, Salute/Farewell to Rosses Point Oil on panel, 23 x 35.5cm (9 x 14'') Signed; inscribed verso Provenance: Sold by the artist to Dr. Somerville Large, 1946; private collection. Literature: Hilary Pyle, Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, Volume II, page 675, illustration 749. A man stands on the deck of a ship and bids farewell to Rosses Point. He gazes across the water to the village and the landscape of Sligo beyond. Looking over his shoulders, we see the same view as he – little houses above the waterline and a small sailing boat in the sea below them. The title Farewell to Rosses Point or the alternative Salute to Rosses Point seems to refer to Yeats’s sense of leaving and never seeing again the village in which he had spent much of his childhood, and which had many personal memories and significance for him. Situated at the mouth of the Garavogue River, which flows out from the Sligo quays, Rosses Point marks the entry into the Atlantic Ocean. As a boy, Yeats frequently travelled on the pilot boats that guided the large merchant ships from here into Sligo town. Several works of the 1940s, painted like this when Yeats was in his seventies, refer to Sligo and Rosses Point including Men of Destiny (1946, National Gallery of Ireland). The artist used painting to process his memories of Sligo at a time when familial connections were no longer extant and when he rarely visited the region. The sky, land and water are formed from an unbridled mixture of pigment

Auction archive: Lot number 40
Auction:
Datum:
29 Sep 2021
Auction house:
Adams's
St Stephens Green 26
D02 X665 Dublin 2
Ireland
info@adams.ie
+353-1-6760261)
Beschreibung:

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) Rosses Point, Salute/Farewell to Rosses Point Oil on panel, 23 x 35.5cm (9 x 14'') Signed; inscribed verso Provenance: Sold by the artist to Dr. Somerville Large, 1946; private collection. Literature: Hilary Pyle, Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, Volume II, page 675, illustration 749. A man stands on the deck of a ship and bids farewell to Rosses Point. He gazes across the water to the village and the landscape of Sligo beyond. Looking over his shoulders, we see the same view as he – little houses above the waterline and a small sailing boat in the sea below them. The title Farewell to Rosses Point or the alternative Salute to Rosses Point seems to refer to Yeats’s sense of leaving and never seeing again the village in which he had spent much of his childhood, and which had many personal memories and significance for him. Situated at the mouth of the Garavogue River, which flows out from the Sligo quays, Rosses Point marks the entry into the Atlantic Ocean. As a boy, Yeats frequently travelled on the pilot boats that guided the large merchant ships from here into Sligo town. Several works of the 1940s, painted like this when Yeats was in his seventies, refer to Sligo and Rosses Point including Men of Destiny (1946, National Gallery of Ireland). The artist used painting to process his memories of Sligo at a time when familial connections were no longer extant and when he rarely visited the region. The sky, land and water are formed from an unbridled mixture of pigment and a diversity of texture from which we can decipher the forms of the dwellings, mountains, and coastline. The figure is made of thick impasto while parts of the sky are without any paint, and the white surface of the panel is revealed. The clouds are fashioned from swirling forms of blue and parts of the sea are scraped back in a rhythmic fashion found in many of Yeats’s late works. The palette is predominantly blue and white with touches of yellow, red and orange that suggests the constant movement of light and shadow across the vista. Yeats sold the painting directly to Dr. L. B. Somerville Large in August 1946. In a letter to the doctor, the artist tells him that he painted the work ‘with real enjoyment’. This is evident, perhaps, in its vivacious surface and light tonality. Far from being a lament, it celebrates the energy of the terrain and the vividness of Yeats’s memory of it. Dr. Roisin Kennedy August 2021 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) Rosses Point, Salute/Farewell to Rosses Point Oil on panel, 23 x 35.5cm (9 x 14'') Signed; inscribed verso Provenance: Sold by the artist to Dr. Somerville Large, 1946; private collection. Literature: Hilary Pyle, Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings, Volume II, page 675, illustration 749. A man stands on the deck of a ship and bids farewell to Rosses Point. He gazes across the water to the village and the landscape of Sligo beyond. Looking over his shoulders, we see the same view as he – little houses above the waterline and a small sailing boat in the sea below them. The title Farewell to Rosses Point or the alternative Salute to Rosses Point seems to refer to Yeats’s sense of leaving and never seeing again the village in which he had spent much of his childhood, and which had many personal memories and significance for him. Situated at the mouth of the Garavogue River, which flows out from the Sligo quays, Rosses Point marks the entry into the Atlantic Ocean. As a boy, Yeats frequently travelled on the pilot boats that guided the large merchant ships from here into Sligo town. Several works of the 1940s, painted like this when Yeats was in his seventies, refer to Sligo and Rosses Point including Men of Destiny (1946, National Gallery of Ireland). The artist used painting to process his memories of Sligo at a time when familial connections were no longer extant and when he rarely visited the region. The sky, land and water are formed from an unbridled mixture of pigment

Auction archive: Lot number 40
Auction:
Datum:
29 Sep 2021
Auction house:
Adams's
St Stephens Green 26
D02 X665 Dublin 2
Ireland
info@adams.ie
+353-1-6760261)
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