‘The Poultry Yard’ by Eyre Crowe A.R.A. (1900)
An auction house in South Africa is shortly to sell a landscape oil painting by Eyre Crowe. Originally entitled ‘The Poultry Yard‘ when it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1900, it is now known as ‘Feeding the Chickens’.
The painting was last sold in Newbury, Berkshire, in 2005, for £800. Its most recent provenance is the Everard Read Gallery in Johannesburg. It will be sold on 11 November by Strauss and Co. auctioneers, at the Wanderers Club, Illovo, South Africa, as part of the South African and International Art auction. It is the first lot in the auction, with a guide price of 10-15,000 Rand (£600-£900).
UPDATE
The painting sold for 14,000 Rand (£847)
Eyre Crowe (1824-1910) 