IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 28 September 2026

48 29 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) CROSSING THE CITY, 1929 oil on canvas signed lower left; with partial typed exhibition labels of the Waddington Galleries [London] and New Grafton Gallery, London [SW13] on reverse 14 by 18in. (35.6 by 45.7cm) Frame Size: 21 by 25in. (53.3 by 63.5cm) Provenance: Maurice Collis, 1945; with Waddington, London; Mrs Iris Winthrop, Ipswich, Mass., (later Mrs Freeman); New Grafton Gallery fromwhere bought by Sir Andrew Carnwath in 1971; Private collection, Dublin; Whyte’s, 1 October 2012, lot 65; Private collection Exhibited: ‘Jack B. Yeats: Paintings’, Alpine Club Gallery, London, 6-23 February 1929, catalogue no. 29; ’Jack B. Yeats: Paintings’, Contemporary Picture Galleries, Dublin, 28 October to 12 November 1940, catalogue no. 16; ’Jack B. Yeats: Oil Paintings’, Wildstein, London, 13 February to 9 March 1946, catalogue no. 16; New Grafton Gallery, London, November 1971, catalogue no. 84 Literature: Pyle, Hilary, Jack B. Yeats A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, p.347, no. 380 (illustrated, Vol. III, p.164) €120,000-€180,000 (£102,560-£153,850 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot29