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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
Estimate:
€8,000 - €10,000
Passed
Live Auction
Irish & International Art
Size
10.50 by 7.50in. (26.7 by 19.1cm)
Description
Title: THE LOTTERY, c. 1913
Medium
pen, ink and watercolour
Signature
signed lower right; titled lower left; with Dawson Gallery label on reverse
Provenance
Dawson Gallery, Dublin;Collection of Miss Nora Niland, Sligo, 1962;with Sligo County Library and Museum (22);Thence by Niland family descent to the present owner
Literature
A Broadside No. 7, December 1913;Pyle, Hilary, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats: His Cartoons and Illustrations, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1994, catalogue no. 1944, p. 267
Exhibited
'Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland', Mills Hall, Dublin, 26 April to 10 May 1914, catalogue no. 42;'Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland', Walker Art Gallery, London, 29 June to 18 July 1914, catalogue no. 37;'Joint Exhibition of Paintings from the Collections of the Late Ernie O'Malley and the Yeats Museum Sligo', County Library and Museum, Sligo, 2-20 August 1963, catalogue no. 15;'Jack B. Yeats and his Family [in association with Rosc 71]' County Library and Museum, Sligo, October to December 1971, shown afterwards, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, April to May 1972, catalogue no. 26
