Lot 48 Jack Butler Yeats

Jack Butler Yeats RHA, 1876-1957 A HOOKER AND A NOBBIE (by Roundstone Quay) (1911) Oil on board, 9'' x 14'' (23 x 35.5cm), signed, inscribed verso and with inscribed label verso This painting was on Yeat's first visit to Roundstone in the summer of 1911. Provenance: Purchased from The Victor Waddington Galleries 1942 by the precious owner's father and thence by descent; Adams Important Irish Art Sale, 30th May 2012, lot 33; Private Collection, Louth. Exhibited: 1912 The Walker Art Gallery, London ''Jack B. Yeats: Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland'' Cat. No. 4; 1942 Munster Fine Art Club, 20th Annual Exhibition, COrk (Group Show); 1977 Wexford Arts Centre, ''Irish Art from Private Collections 1978-1930's Cat. No. 41. Literature; ''Jack B. Yeats - A Catalogue Raisonne of the oil paintings'', Vol. 1 Cat. No.24, p24. illustrated again Vol. III p.12.