IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 29 FEBRUARY 2016

IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 29 FEBRUARY 2016

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)

JOHNNIE FROM GORT

ink

titled centre right

5 x 3½in. (12.70 x 8.89cm)

Provenance:

lots 28 & 29

Whyte’s, 4 October 2010, lot 16;Private collection

This lot originates from a sketchbook by Jack Butler Yeats, dated, 1899, Gort, Co. Galway. The sketchbook was gifted by

Yeats to his friend and patron Ernie O’Malley (1897-1957) and is listed in Hilary Pyle’s book ‘Jack B. Yeats, His Watercolours,

Drawings and Pastels’, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1993, p.184, nos. 15-17 [Three sketchbooks in the Ernie O’Malley

Collection].

€1200-€1500 (£912-£1080 approx.)