23
WHYTES
SINCE 1783
,
33
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
A PATRIOT, c.1902
watercolour
with monogram lower left; with typed Victor
Waddington Gallery label preserved on reverse
13¾ by 6½in. (33 by 15cm)
Provenance:
Victor Waddington Gallery, London;
Whence purchased by A.S. Alkin Esq.;
Sotheby’s London, 21 May 1999, lot 341;
Private collection;
Whyte’s, 25 April 2006, lot 62;
Private collection
Literature:
Pyle, Hilary ,
Jack B. Yeats: His watercolours Drawings
and Pastels
, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1993, no.
393a, p.112 (illustrated )
As Hilary Pyle observes “a picture of Robert Emmet is seen
through the open doorway, hanging over the fireplace”.
€
15,000-
€
20,000 (£12,400-£16,530 approx.)
