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42 23 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) DISCOVERY, 1952 oil on canvas signed lower right; titled on stretcher on reverse 24 by 36in. (61 by 91.4cm) Frame Size: 30 by 42in. (76.2 by 106.7cm) Provenance: Victor Waddington Galleries, London; Private collection Exhibited: ‘Oil Paintings’, Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, October 1953, catalogue no. 16; ’Peintures’, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Paris, February 1954, catalogue no. 30; ’Paintings (Organised by CEMA)’, Museum and Art Gallery, Belfast, February to March 1956, catalogue no. 35; ’Later Works’, Waddington Galleries, London, 6 March to 3 April 1958, catalogue no. 6; ’Paintings’, Irish Section of the XXI Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, July to October 1962, catalogue no. 19; ’Paintings’, Waddington Galleries, London, 28 March to 27 April 1963, catalogue no. 31 (repro); ’Oil Paintings’, Waddington Galleries, London, 29 September to 21 October 1967, catalogue no. 31 (repro); ’Jack B. Yeats Retrospective Exhibition’, Waddington Fine Arts, Montreal, 12 March to 5 April 1969, catalogue no. 21; ’Paintings’, Hart House Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, 11-27 February 1971, catalogue no. 19 Literature: Pyle, Hilary, Jack B. Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonné Of The Oil Paintings, André Deutsch, London, 1992, Vol. II, no. 1126, p.1027 €300,000-€500,000 (£256,410-£427,350 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot23