WHYTE'S IMPORTANT IRISH ART MONDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2018 AT 6PM

IMPORTANT IRISH ART · 26 November 2018 AT 6PM 27 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) ST. JOHN’S EVE BONFIRE NIGHT pen, ink and watercolour signed lower left; with Dawson Gallery label on reverse 8 by 6.50in. (20.3 by 16.5cm) Provenance: Dawson Gallery, Dublin; Collection of T.D. Henshaw; Sotheby’s, 13 May 2005, lot 38; Private collection Pyle notes that Yeats and J.M. Synge were in Belmullet in County Mayo on St. John’s Eve, when bonfires were lit in 1905. Examples of these scenes can be found reproduced in Life in the West of Ireland (1912, plate nos. 5 & 25 and in Pyle, Yeats, His Cartoons and Illustrations, nos. 1539 & 1549). Number 1549 Bonfire Night [Fire Play] was also in the same collection as the present lot [T.D. Henshaw, New York]. A larger work in watercolour of this scene exists (Pyle, Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, no. 600) and was described by Synge in his article on Erris for the Manchester Guardian in 1905. These works were all variously exhibited from as early as 1906 to the 1970s. €12,000-€ 18,000 (£10,620-£15,930 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 27