IMPORTANT IRISH ART · 27 MAY 2024 AT 6PM

46 24 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) THE FOURTH ESTATE, 1945 oil on panel signed lower left; titled on reverse 9 by 14in. (22.9 by 35.6cm) Frame Size: 16.5 by 21.5in. (41.9 by 54.6cm) Provenance: Victor Waddington Galleries, 1945; Captain Alan Hillgarth, Ballinderry; Private collection Exhibited: ‘Paintings’, Goodwin Galleries, Limerick, 21-29 September 1945, catalogue no. 9 Literature: Pyle, Hilary, Jack B. Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonné of The Oil Paintings, André Deutsch, London, 1992, Vol. II, No. 718, p.647 Pyle writes: The interior of a newsagents shop, with magazines spread on the counter. A cat sits on a row of books. Yeats equates the cat’s position whimsically with that of the reporter in the press gallery. €70,000-€100,000 (£59,830-£85,470 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot24