WHYTE'S EXCEPTIONAL IRISH ART MONDAY 7 DECEMBER 2020

80 50 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) THE ENTHUSIASTS, 1902 watercolour 19 by 14.50in. (48.3 by 36.8cm) Frame Size: 30 by 23in. (76.2 by 58.4cm) Condition: This work appears to be in very good condition. There are no rips, tears or creases apparent. Colours remain strong. There is some rippling apparent and the work may benefit from be re-laid to the backing board. Provenance: Given by the artist to Thomas McGreevy, 1945; Thence by descent to the previous owner; Adam’s, 4 October 2006, lot 98; Private collection Exhibited: ’Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland, Jack B. Yeats Exhibition’, Wells Central Hall, Dublin, 18-30 August 1902, catalogue no. 4; ’Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland, Jack B. Yeats Exhibition’, The Walker Gallery, London, 4 February to 4 March 1903, catalogue no. 2; ’Recent Watercolours, Jack B. Yeats Exhibition’, The Clausen Galleries, New York, 31 March to 16 April 1904, catalogue no. 18; ’Jack B. Yeats - National Loan Exhibition’, National College of Art, Dublin, June to July 1945, catalogue no. 172 Literature: Pyle, Hilary, Jack B. Yeats: His watercolours Drawings and Pastels, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1993, no. 409, p. 115 €25,000-€35,000 (£22,220-£31,110 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot50