JACK BUTLER YEATS RHA (1871-1957) Evening, Kildare (1936) Oil on panel, 23 x 30.5cms (9 x 14'') Signed Exhibited: Jack B. Yeats - Recent Paintings, Dunthorne Gallery London, March-April 1936, cat....

JACK BUTLER YEATS RHA (1871-1957) Evening, Kildare (1936) Oil on panel, 23 x 30.5cms (9 x 14'') Signed Exhibited: Jack B. Yeats - Recent Paintings, Dunthorne Gallery London, March-April 1936, cat. no. 3, where purchased by Mr & Mrs George Bernard Shaw; Jack B. Yeats - National Loan Exhibition, National College of Art, Dublin, June-July 1945, cat. no. 96, where lent by George Bernard Shaw Evening Kildare 1936 This vibrant landscape is rather unusual for Yeats in that it does not feature the human figure but concentrates on the depiction of lush vegetation and a view of distant houses beneath an expanse of evening sky tinged with the yellow and pink tones of the setting sun. The work was bought by Mrs. Bernard Shaw when it was exhibited at the Leger Galleries in London in 1936. The Shaws were great admirers of Yeats's work and owned a number of his paintings. Charlotte Shaw was especially interested in collecting his work and commissioned the artist to design a bookplate for her in the late 1920's. Evening Kildare subsequently belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Nesbitt Waddington of Beaulieu House, Drogheda, important collectors of modern Irish art including the work of Jack B. Yeats. Dr. R?is?n Kennedy

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