WHYTES
SINCE 1783
,
55
58
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
ILLUSTRATION TO “...AND SHE FOLLOWED THE DARK-EYED
GYPSEY O”, 1903
Indian ink with watercolour
signed lower left; with title printed in the mount
5
by 11in. (12.70 by 27.94cm)
Provenance:
Sold to C.F. McLoughlin, United Arts Club, Dublin, 1933;
Christie’s, 4 November 1983, lot 55;
Private collection;
Christie’s, 9 June 1989, lot 329;
Private collection;
de Vere’s, 22 April 1998, lot 100;
Private collection
Exhibited:
‘
Drawings and Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland’,
Stephen’s Green Gallery, Dublin, 19 February to 4 March,
1921,
catalogue no. 33
Literature:
A Broad Sheet
,
No. 18
(
June 1903); Pyle, Hilary,
The Different
Worlds of Jack B. Yeats. His Cartoons and Illustrations,
Irish
Academic Press, 1994, p.239 (catalogue no. 1719), p.240
(
illustrated)
Illustration for a ballad entitled
Seven Gypsies.
€
8,000-
€
10,000 (
£6,400-£8,000 approx)
59
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
LIFE IN THE WEST OF IRELAND, DRAWN AND PAINTED BY
JACK B. YEATS, 1912
first edition book
10
by 7.25in. (25.40 by 18.42cm)
First edition, Maunsel & Company Ltd., Dublin and London,
1912.
In original navy blue boards with gilt titled upper and
spine. Contains eight colour plates, thirty-two line drawings
and sixteen reproductions from paintings.
€
600-
€
800 (
£500-£640 approx)