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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
Estimate:
€5,000 - €7,000
Sold
€5,800
Live Auction
Important Irish Art
Size
9 by 13in. (22.9 by 33cm)
Description
Title: POLICE AND CROWDS OUTSIDE KILMAINHAM JAIL, DUBLIN
Frame dimensions: 14.5 by 15.5in. (36.8 by 39.4cm)
Note: The reference to the Coliseum may be Yeats comparing the executions at Kilmainham for which crowds gathered outside, to the Romans watching Christians being killed.Yeats shows the crowds outside Kilmainham Jail during the excecutions in early May, 1916 of the leaders of the 1916 Rising.
Frame dimensions: 14.5 by 15.5in. (36.8 by 39.4cm)
Note: The reference to the Coliseum may be Yeats comparing the executions at Kilmainham for which crowds gathered outside, to the Romans watching Christians being killed.Yeats shows the crowds outside Kilmainham Jail during the excecutions in early May, 1916 of the leaders of the 1916 Rising.
Condition
Excellent condition.
Medium
pencil and watercolour
Provenance
Robert Lynd, to whom given by the artists Paul and Mabel Henry;Private collection, 1973;Christie's, 19 May 2000, lot 289;Private collection;Whyte's, 10 October 2000, lot 99;Private collection
