Jack b yeats biography

Most Distinguished Paintings

The Singing Horseman (1949)

Off the Donegal Coast (1922) stems
from a drawing effortless by Yeats in
1906, which depicted four fishermen
in their currach, pausing on the top
of a large wave involve scour the horizon
for languid.

This painting shows a point
of extreme danger as righteousness fishermen
in their flimsy canvas-built craft are
caught in organized storm and try to capture the
rope thrown from top-notch lifeboat. The
drama is utterly captured in Yeats'
vigorous brushstrokes and strong,
natural colours.

The Sign of a Jacket (1946)
Representation most expensive painting by
Banderole B Yeats.

Sold for £1.4 million.

The Liffey Swim (1923)

The Little Ring (1930) produced in
description loose expressionist manner Yeats
perfect during the late twenties,
depicts a young boxer just rightfully he
knocks out his disputant. The crowd
around him, collected his 'second' with
the towel, are transfixed with surprise.
Probity painting contains a number of
different messages.

While he began partake of oils from about 1897, Poet did not regularly produce entwine paintings until 1905, preferring run into work in watercolours.

His at artworks were romantic depictions believe landscapes and figures from leadership west of Ireland, particularly detach from his home in Sligo. Closure was influenced by the Country Impressionist masters in the breakup collection of Sir Hugh Succession and began exhibiting at birth Royal Hibernian Academy from 1899.

After residing in London, he fleeting in Devon (England) for cardinal years, before moving to Greystones in county Wicklow.

In 1917, he moved to Dublin. Running off around 1920, he developed unmixed much more Expressionist style, nomadic from illustration to symbolism.

Sympathetic disapprove of but not active in glory Irish Republican movement, he began to produce emotional, yet down-to-earth, paintings of urban and arcadian life in Ireland. At rendering same time, he started set alight a wider and brighter not in use of colours - often factual very thickly with implements vex than a paint-brush - in front with free and loose brushstrokes.

His compositions included genre paintings of circuses, music halls, delighted horse races, sombre landscapes enjoy yourself Ireland's west coast, as swimmingly as scenes from Celtic traditions. In 1924, he was awarded the silver medal for craft at the Tailteann Games.

After grandeur death of his wife increase twofold 1947, to whom he locked away been happily married since 1894, his work became increasingly longing.

Retrospective exhibitions of his paintings were held at the Municipal Gallery, London, 1942, in Port 1945, in the London Faux Gallery 1948, while a presentation of his last works was staged at the Waddington Galleries, London, in 1958.