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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
Estimate:
€2,000 - €3,000
Sold
€1,900
Live Auction
Irish & International Art
Size
5.75 by 7.75in. (14.6 by 19.7cm)
Description
Title: ILLUSTRATION TO 'THE JUDAS TREE' (I) 1937
Note: The present work is an illustration to a poem by Dorothy Wellesley in Broadsides (New Series), No. 7, July 1937.
Note: The present work is an illustration to a poem by Dorothy Wellesley in Broadsides (New Series), No. 7, July 1937.
Medium
ink
Signature
signed in monogram lower right; titled on artist's label preserved on reverse; also with typed Victor Waddington Galleries exhibition label on reverse
Provenance
The artist's estate;
A gift from Victor Waddington to the previous owner's father, and by descent;
Christie's, 2 December 2016, lot 64;
Private collection
Literature
Hilary Pyle, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats, Dublin, 1994, p. 280, catalogue no. 2008 (p.282 illustrated)
Exhibited
'Jack B. Yeats Watercolours and Drawings', Waddington Galleries, London, March 1973, no. 45
