JACK B. YEATS, R.H.A. | YOUNG MEN

JACK B. YEATS, R.H.A.
1871-1957
YOUNG MEN

signed l.l.: JACK B YEATS; titled on the reverse: YOUNG MEN
oil on canvas
35.5 by 46cm., 14 by 18in.
Painted in 1929.

Condition Report:
Original canvas. The work appears in good overall condition.

There is a minor stretcher bar mark along the lower edge, only visible upon closer inspection. There is a vertical surface abrasion near the centre of the upper edge, which may be contemporary to the time of painting.

Under ultraviolet light there appear to be a couple of minor spots of retouching near the centre of the extreme of the lower edge. There also appear to be a couple of very minor retouchings in the sky above the lefthand man's head.

Held under glass in a gilt plaster frame; unexamined out of frame.

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Provenance:
Sold by the artist to Mrs Malcolm L. MacBride, Ohio, 1937;

Given by her to Cleveland Museum of Art, 1941;

Returned to Mrs MacBride in 1953 in exchange for Each Man's Thoughts are His Own;

Sotheby's, New York, 22 June 1977, lot 123;

Sotheby's, London, 23 November, 1994, lot 31;

Private Collection, Northern Ireland;

Sotheby's, London, 18 May 2001, lot 238