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

90 40 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) THE FIGHTING DAWN, 1945 oil on canvas signed lower right; titled on reverse 18 by 24in. (45.7 by 61cm) Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist by Ernie O’Malley, May 1945; Thence by family descent Exhibited: ‘Loan of Paintings from the Collection of Ernie O’Malley’, Limerick Art Gallery, October 1948, catalogue no. 6; ‘Joint Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the late Ernie O’Malley and the Yeats Museum’, County Library and Museum, Sligo, 2-20 August 1963, catalogue no. 2 (illustrated); ‘Loan Exhibition’, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts, 11 January to 17 February 1965, catalogue no. 47; ‘Jack Yeats: Irish Expressionist’, Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, 15 March to 30 April, 1980 catalogue no. 47 (illustrated); Literature: Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Andre Deutsch, London, 1992, Vol. II, page 630, catalogue no. 697 €250,000-€350,000 (£219,300-£307,020 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 40