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

98 45 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) OLD JOHN, 1904 watercolour signed lower right, titled on reverse 9.50 by 7.50in. (24.1 by 19.1cm) Provenance: Purchased by Mrs Jarvis, Clausen’s buyer, at the 1904 exhibition; Purchased by James A. Healy, New York City, circa 1935-45; Gifted to Cormac O’Malley, circa 1974 Exhibited: Clausen Gallery, New York, 1904 Literature: Hilary Pyle Jack B. Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Irish Academic Press, 1993, No. 499, page 131 According to Yeats, Old John was a small farmer, and two other watercolours in the 1904 exhibition at Clausen, Young John and Michael, depicted his sons - from Gaelic American 5 April 1904 and Hilary Pyle Jack B. Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels. A typed label circa 1970, indicates that this image was an illustration for a lithograph entitled Road To The West, circa 1910. €10,000-€15,000 (£8,770-£13,160 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 45