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Jack Butler Yeats THE LOTTERY
Lot 60
Price Realised: €7,500
Estimate: €8,000 - €12,000
Jack Butler Yeats RHA, 1871-1957
THE LOTTERY
Pen, ink and watercolour, 10 1/2" x 7 1/2" (26.7 x 19.1cm), signed and inscribed.

Provenance: The Dawson Gallery, Dublin (label verso); Miss Nora Niland, Sligo, 1962; Sligo County Library and Museum ... Read more
Lot 60 - THE LOTTERY by Jack Butler Yeats Lot 60 Jack Butler Yeats THE LOTTERY
Estimate: €8,000 - €12,000
Jack Butler Yeats RHA, 1871-1957
THE LOTTERY
Pen, ink and watercolour, 10 1/2" x 7 1/2" (26.7 x 19.1cm), signed and inscribed.

Provenance: The Dawson Gallery, Dublin (label verso); Miss Nora Niland, Sligo, 1962; Sligo County Library and Museum (22); thense by Niland family; Whytes, 19 September 2019 (27).

Exhibited: 'Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland', Mills Hall, Dublin, 26 April - 10 May 1914, (catalogue no. 42); 'Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland', Walker Art Gallery, London, 29 June - 18 July 1914, (catalogue no. 37); 'Joint Exhibition of Paintings from the Collections of the Late Ernie O'Malley and the Yeats Museum Sligo', County Library and Museum, Sligo, 2-20 August 1963, catalogue no. 15; 'Jack B. Yeats and his Family [in association with Rosc 71]' County Library and Museum, Sligo, October - December 1971, shown afterwards, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, April to May 1972, catalogue no. 26.

Literature: A Broadside No. 7, December 1913; Pyle, Hilary, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats: His Cartoons and Illustrations, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1994, catalogue no. 1944, p. 267.

'Pictures of L Ireland', Walker Art Gallery, London, 29 June to 18 July 1914, catalogue no. 37;
'Joint Exhibition of Paintings from the Collections of the Late Ernie O'Malley and the Yeats Museum Sligo', County Library and Museum, Sligo, 2-20 August 1963, catalogue no. 15;
'Jack B. Yeats and his Family [in association with Rosc 71]' County Library and Museum, Sligo, October to December 1971, shown afterwards, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, April to May 1972, catalogue no. 26

'Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland', Mills Hall, Dublin, 26 April to 10 May 1914, catalogue no. 42;
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