WHYTE'S in association with CHRISTIE'S - The Ernie O'Malley Collection MONDAY 25 November 2019

42 20 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) THE ENFOLDING NIGHT, 1947 oil on canvas signed lower left 24 by 36in. (61 by 91.4cm) Provenance: Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin; Purchased by Helen Hooker O’Malley, 1948; Thence by family descent Exhibited: ‘The Arts of Ireland’, Friends of the Greenwich Library, Connecticut, 2-27 November 1961, catalogue no. 11; ‘Loan Exhibition’, Institute of Technology, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts, 11 January to 17 February 1965, catalogue no. 41 (illustrated); ‘Jack Yeats: Irish Expressionist’, Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, 15 March to 30 April 1980, catalogue no. 40 (illustrated); ’Jack Yeats: Irish Expressionist’, Alabama Museum of Art, Birmingham, 15 March to 30 April 1980, catalogue no. 40 (illustrated) Literature: Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Andre Deutsch, London, 1992, Vol. II, page 789, catalogue no. 874 €500,000-€700,000 (£438,600-£614,040 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 20