WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 6 JUNE 2022 AT 6PM

54 38 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) ILLUSTRATION FOR OLD JOHN, 1938 ink and watercolour signed lower right; with Dawson Gallery label on reverse 6.50 by 9.50in. (16.5 by 24.1cm) Frame Dimensions: 15 by 17in. (38.1 by 43.2cm) Provenance: Dawson Gallery, Dublin; Private collection Exhibited: ‘Watercolours and Pen and Ink Drawings’, Dawson Gallery, November to December 1962, catalogue no. 71 Literature: Pyle, Hilary, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats: His Cartoons and Illustrations, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1994, catalogue no. 1464, p. 203 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 watercolour depicting Old John sold for €18,000 through Whyte’s and Christie’s on 25 November 2019. €6,000-€8,000 (£5,130-£6,840 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot38