Live Auction 19784Modern British Art Day Sale
JACK BUTLER YEATS, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
Lot 203

JACK BUTLER YEATS, R.H.A. (1871-1957)

The False Morning Promise

Closed2 March 2021

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GBP 43,750

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JACK BUTLER YEATS, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
The False Morning Promise
signed 'JACK B./YEATS' (lower left), inscribed 'THE FALSE/MORNING PROMISE' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
9 x 14 in. (23 x 35.5 cm.)
Painted in 1945.

with Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, where purchased by Leslie Dacus, Dublin, 1945.
His sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 July 1970, lot 79.
with Victor Waddington Galleries, London.
with Waddington Galleries, London.
Anonymous sale; Adams, Dublin, 7 December 2016, lot 48, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

'A river estuary at morning, on a fair day. The breath of wind, and the gathering of cloud reflected in the water, indicate that the benevolent aspect is fickle and that the weather will change soon' (H. Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Vol. II, London, 1992, p. 644.)