Lot 46 Jack Butler Yeats

Jack Butler Yeats RHA, 1871-1957 THE NIGHT HAS GONE (1947) Oil on canvas, 18'' x 24'' (46 x 61cm), signed. Exhibited: 1947 Dublin (9); 1948 Leeds: 1948 London (78) Provenance: Sold at the exhibition in 1947 to Miss H. MacMahon, later Mrs. Gertrude Feuerring, New York; sold these rooms, 27th November 2012 (lot 27) Literature: Jack B. Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings by Hilary Pyle, No 876, page 791, Vol II, which states: 'The artist walks alone in the landscape , his head surrounded by the night sky above the low horizon. But the night is rolling away, and light is breaking out in the east'