WHYTE'S IMPORTANT IRISH ART 28 November 2022 at 6pm

34 17 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) POLICE AND CROWDS OUTSIDE KILMAINHAM JAIL, DUBLIN pencil and watercolour titled “At the Colyseum” on reverse, now obscured 9 by 13in. (22.9 by 33cm) Frame Size: 14.5 by 15.5in. (36.8 by 39.4cm) Provenance: Robert Lynd, to whom given by the artists Paul and Mabel Henry; Private collection, 1973; Christie’s, 19 May 2000, lot 289; Private collection; Whyte’s, 10 October 2000, lot 99; Private collection The reference to the Coliseum may be Yeats comparing the executions at Kilmainham for which crowds gathered outside, to the Romans watching Christians being killed. Yeats shows the crowds outside Kilmainham Jail during the excecutions in early May, 1916 of the leaders of the 1916 Rising. €5,000-€7,000 (£4,310-£6,030 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot17