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

THE ERNIE O’MALLEY COLLECTION · 25 NOVEMBER 2019 AT 6PM 63 59 T ’ LLECTION · 25 E BER 2019 6 11 October 1939 Dear O’Malley, Many thanks for your cheques, your letter has just come by this morning’s post. I send the formal receipt. Longford hung my paintings, just eleven of them, as well as ever I have seen them hung. Dr [Eileen] McCarvill’s courage has failed her up to this. Richard McGonigal, the barrister, bought the circus picture, ‘They Come’, which was in this year’s [Royal] Hibernian Academy. I have never seen a calm sea on a wide ocean but I have had the glory and honour to see in shore waters as calm as you have had them – the Artful Giant Sleeping. It is a good sign so many exhibitions because the painters are finding it necessary to break away from each other and soon they will be painting their own individual views. It would take away from our pleasure in your wife’s next visit if she had to spend any of the time copying the ballad so I send you a copy now. With kindest remembrances from us both, I am Yours very sincerely, Jack B. Yeats 8 August 1939 Dear O’Malley, Many thanks for your check for which I send the formal receipt. I also thank you for the photographs of the cross of Drumcliffe. They were very good. I would have liked to have seen your brushy browed pirate. When the last hooker has gone it will be a bad day. The poor lonely human likes something that makes a noise so the power boats “chug, chug, chug” gives him courage. I am sure the silent Dog of Africa can make his owner feel small. I am afraid you will have had a bad weather day at Galway [Races]. Perhaps through the tears of the sky you were able to see winners. We are both well and with all good wishes to you both, I am Yours very sincerely, Jack B. Yeats