Jack Butler Yeats’s workbook relating to late paintings
Description
Chronological list of works, comprising [212] entries containing some or all of the following information in relation to each work: title, dimensions, venue and year of exhibitions (abbreviations used), if sold (‘S’) or gifted (‘G’), date of an examination by Yeats and comment on same (dates of completion to be found in index of pictures at Y1/JY/4/1/5 ). Comments consist of ‘ok’. Ergo the final work listed is Out of the mountainside, the index of pictures (Y1/JY/4/1/5) indicates this was completed in October 1955 while this workbook indicates that it was examined by Yeats and deemed ‘ok’ in February 1956. This workbook includes in the region of 50 original preparatory sketches for Yeats’s late works, often pasted over each other, including a crayon sketch for My beautiful, my beautiful, 1953 and The house of a young man dying, 1954. Also includes lists of works headed ‘Not exhibited London’ and ‘Not exhibited Dublin’.
Creator
Yeats, Jack Butler
Related topics
| Title | Jack Butler Yeats’s workbook relating to late paintings |
|---|---|
| Creator | Yeats, Jack Butler |
| Date | [?1949]- February 1956 |
| Type | Component |
| Ref | IE NGI/YA/Y1/JY/4/1/13 |
| Level | Item |
| Condition | Fragile |
| Language | English |
| Extent | [10pp & c.50 sketches] |
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