IMPORTANT IRISH ART · 27 MAY 2024 AT 6PM

50 27 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) A CHAMPION (A CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPION), c.1902 watercolour signed lower right; with William Macbeth Gallery label on reverse 14.50 by 10.50in. (36.8 by 26.7cm) Frame Size: 23 by 18in. (58.4 by 45.7cm) Provenance: WilliamMacbeth Gallery, New York; Sotheby’s, New York, 5 June 2009, lot 95; Private collection Exhibited: ‘Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland’, 9 Merrion Row, Dublin, 18-30 August 1902, catalogue no. 1; ’Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland’, Walker Art Gallery, London, 4 February to 4 March 1903, catalogue no. 6; ’Recent Watercolours’, Clausen Galleries, New York, 31 March to 16 April 1904, no. 7 Literature: Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1983, catalogue no. 415, p. 116 €10,000-€15,000 (£8,550-£12,820 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot27