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Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by Serge Philipson, Dublin, May 1948;
Private Collection;
Sale, Christie's London, 20th May 1999, lot 132, where purchased by the present owner
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Exhibited: Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 1911, no.134;
Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, Jack B. Yeats, A Centenary Exhibition, September - December 1971, no.28, illustrated in the catalogue, and touring to Cultural Center, New York.
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Literature: Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, André Deutsch, London, 1992, no.27, illustrated p.26.
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Notes: Painted in 1911, the dramatic chiaroscuro of the present work relates to Yeats's interest in Daumier at the time. In the dark moody background, a side-car has pulled up at a cab-stand and its driver is peering over into the foreground providing an apt backdrop for the group of three cabbies completely engrossed in their game of cards, their faces lit-up by the flickering candle light at the centre of the composition.
