Jack B. Yeats, Irish, 1871-1957
Title: That Grand Conversation Was under the Rose
Date: 1943
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 x 53 cm
Signed: lower right: JACK B. YEATS
Credit Line: Purchased, part-funded by the Friends of the National Gallery of Ireland, 1992
Object Number: NGI.4576
ProvenancePurchased, Private Collection, 1943 (at exhibition); presented, Dr Bethels Solomons by one of his patients; Private Collection, Dublin; purchased, Private Collection, part funded by the Friends of the National Gallery of Ireland, 1992
Exhibition HistoryLater Paintings, Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, 6-13 November 1943
National Loan Exhibition, National College of Art, Dublin, June - July 1945
Loan Collection, Town Hall, Sligo, 14-27 August 1961
Jack B. Yeats: A Centenary Exhibition, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, September - December 1971; Cultural Centre, New York, April - June 1972
Jack B. Yeats - Enter the Clowns: The Circus as a Metaphor, The Model, Sligo, 25 May - 22 September 2013
National Loan Exhibition, National College of Art, Dublin, June - July 1945
Loan Collection, Town Hall, Sligo, 14-27 August 1961
Jack B. Yeats: A Centenary Exhibition, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, September - December 1971; Cultural Centre, New York, April - June 1972
Jack B. Yeats - Enter the Clowns: The Circus as a Metaphor, The Model, Sligo, 25 May - 22 September 2013