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28 19 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) THE ENTHUSIASTS, 1902 watercolour signed lower right; with National Loan Exhibition and Victor Waddington Gallery labels on reverse 19 by 14.50in. (48.3 by 36.8cm) Frame Size: 30 by 23in. (76.2 by 58.4cm) 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 Exhibired: ‘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’, Walker Gallery, London, 4 February to 4 March 1903, catalogue no. 2; ’Recent Watercolours, Jack B. Yeats Exhibition’, 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 €20,000-€30,000 (£17,700-£26,550 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot19