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

66 30 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) EVENING IN SPRING, 1937 oil on canvas signed lower right; titled on reverse 24 by 36in. (61 by 91.4cm) Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist by Ernie O’Malley, 1945; Thence by family descent Exhibited: RHA, Dublin, 1937, catalogue no. 127; Contemporary Art Society, London, June 1938; ‘National Society of Painters etc. 10th Annual Exhibition’, Royal Institute Galleries, London, February 1939; ‘Nicholson & Yeats’, National Gallery, London, January 1942, catalogue no. 16; ‘National Loan Exhibition’, National College of Art, Dublin, June to July 1945; ‘Loan Exhibition’, Institute of Technology, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts, 11 January to 17 February 1965, catalogue no. 38 (illustrated); ‘Jack Yeats: Irish Expressionist’, Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, 15 March to 30 April 1980, catalogue no. 34 (illustrated); ‘Jack B. Yeats: The Late Paintings’, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, 16 February to 24 March 1991 and afterwards at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 5 April to 26 May 1991, also at the Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 21 June to 15 September 1991, catalogue no. 10 (illustrated); ‘Freud Project - Life above Everything - Lucian Freud and Jack B. Yeats’, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), 28 June 2019 to 30 September 201, catalogue no. 99 (illustrated pp.52-53). The project, with some changes to the exhibited works, continues at IMMA until 2021 Literature: Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Andre Deutsch, London, 1992, Vol. II, page 449, catalogue no. 494 We are grateful to Christina Kennedy and Johanne Mullan of IMMA for their assistance with this work. €500,000-€700,000 (£438,600-£614,040 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 30