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

78 35 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) DEATH FOR ONLY ONE, 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, 1939; Thence by family descent Exhibited: RHA, Dublin, 1938, catalogue no. 17; ‘National Loan Exhibition’, National College of Art, Dublin, June to July 1945, catalogue no. 98 (illustrated); ‘Society of Scottish Artists 52nd Exhibition’, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Spring 1946, catalogue no. 170; ‘Loan of Paintings from the Collection of Ernie O’Malley’, Art Gallery, Limerick, October 1948, catalogue no. 34; ‘Joint Exhibition of Paintings from the Collections of the late Ernie O’Malley and the Yeats Museum’, County Library and Museum, Sligo, 2-20 August 1963, catalogue no. 4 (illustrated); ‘Loan Exhibition’, Massachusetts, Institute of Technology, Hayden Gallery, 11 January to 17 February 1965, catalogue no. 15; ‘Jack B. Yeats: A Centenary Exhibition’, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, September to December 1971 and in New York, Cultural Center, April to June 1972, catalogue no. 64 (illustrated); ‘Jack Yeats: Irish Expressionist’, Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, 15 March to 30 April 1980, catalogue no. 21 (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. 11 (illustrated) Literature: Thomas MacGreevy, Jack B. Yeats: An Appreciation and Interpretation, Victor Waddington Publications Limited, Dublin, 1945, page 37; Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Andre Deutsch, London, 1992, Vol. I, page 451, catalogue no. 496 €400,000-€600,000 (£350,880-£526,320 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 35