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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 9, 2021 | Christie's | London | The B.J. Eastwood Collection: Important Sporting and Irish Pictures | 3 | $****** - ****** | The Old Days |
paintings
61 x 91.4 cm (24 x 36 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'JACK B. YEATS' (lower left), inscribed 'THE OLD DAYS' (on the reverse)
Purchased by Professor Leonard Abrahamson at the 1943 exhibition.
Purchased by John Huston, St Clearan's, Loughrea, County Galway on 1 September 1959.
Purchased by Nesbit Waddington, Drogheda in 1978.
Acquired by B.J. Eastwood in November 1994.
Dublin, National College of Art, Irish Exhibition of Living Art, September - October 1943, no. 19.
Dublin, National College of Art, National Loan Exhibition, June - July 1945, no. 110.
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Society of Scottish Artists 52nd Exhibition, 1946, no. 153.
Leeds, Temple Newsam House, Loan Exhibition, June - August 1948, exhibition not numbered.
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, Loan Exhibition, August - September 1948, no. 30: this exhibition travelled to Aberdeen, Art Gallery; and Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy.
Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Peintures, February 1954, no. 21.
Belfast, Museum and Art Gallery, Jack Butler Yeats: Paintings, February - March 1956, no. 11.
Edinburgh, Mound Galleries, Loan Collection, 1957, no. 208.
New York, Willard Gallery, Jack Butler Yeats: Paintings, March 1962, no. 5.
Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, Jack B Yeats: A Centenary Exhibition, September - December 1971, no. 72: this exhibition travelled to Belfast, Ulster Museum, January - February 1972; and New York, Cultural Centre, April - June 1972.
London, Theo Waddington, Jack B Yeats: Oil Paintings, October - November 1978, no. 9.
Dublin, Waddington Galleries, Royal Hibernian Academy, Jack B. Yeats, February - March 1995, no. 19.
The Master , Dublin, p. 10, illustrated.
Sunday Independent , Dublin, November 1943.
Irish Independent , Dublin, 7 November 1943, p. 2.
Evening Mail , Dublin, November 1943.
Exhibition catalogue, Jack Butler Yeats: Paintings, New York, Willard Gallery, 1962, n.p., no. 5, illustrated.
J. White, Jack B Yeats: Drawings and Paintings, London, 1971, pp. 83, 152, no. 72, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Jack B Yeats: A Centenary Exhibition, Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, 1971, pp. 83, 152, no. 72, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Jack B Yeats: Oil Paintings, London, Theo Waddington, 1978, n.p., no. 9, illustrated.
H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Vol. I, London, 1992, pp. 497-498, no. 541, illustrated.
H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Vol. III, London, 1992, p. 233, no. 541, illustrated.
T.G. Rosenthal, The Art Of Jack B. Yeats, London, 1993, pp. 200, 300, pl. 180.
Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
The Old Days
signed 'JACK B. YEATS' (lower left), inscribed 'THE OLD DAYS' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted in 1942.
