84
63
Jack B. Yeats RHA (1871 - 1957)
Kevin the Cobbler (1933)
Pen and ink
12 x 14.5 cm (4.75 x 5.5”)
Signed with monogram.
Provenance:The Dawson Gallery
Exhibited: Ledger Gallery London Group Show
1934
Literature: Padric Colum, ‘
Big Tree of Bunlaghy
’
p.56 on e of sixteen illustraions
“
The Different Worlds of Jack B.
Yeats
” Cat. No. 1430
€2,000 - 4,000
64
Harry Clarke RHA (1889-1931)
“Has no copy been taken?” (for Tales of Mystery and
Imagination)
Pen, Indian ink and wash on card, 27.3 x 21cm (10¾ x 8¼”)
Provenance: Thomas Montgomery, Solicitor, to whom the drawing
was presented by the artist; two letters from Clarke are affixed to
the backing board, dated June 1927, addressed to Mr. Montgomery
regarding the drawing; thence by decent.
Literature:
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
by Edgar Allen Poe, il-
lustrated by Harry Clarke, The Minerva Press, London, 1919, il-
lustrated opposite p.34
€6,000 - 8,000
