Adams Important Irish Art 27th May 2015 : Large Image & Place Bid Click Lot Title.

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Pen and Ink, 25 x 17.5 cm (10 x 7”)
Signed and inscribed with title
Exhibited: Jack B Yeats “Drawings and Pictures of Life in the West of
Ireland”, The Mills Hall, Dublin, Mar/Apr 1918, Catalogue No. 31
Literature: Illustration for A Broadside, No 9, February 1915
“The Different Worlds of Jack B Yeats, His Cartoons and Illus
trations” by Hilary Pyle, Catalogue No. 1986, illustrated page 273
“Irish Street Ballads” (1939) by C O’Lochlainn, page 198/9
A view on Bachelor’s Walk where a little boy points out the place where
one of the victims fell on the tragic incident in July 1914 when innocent
bystanders were killed by the King’s Own Scottish Borders at a political
gathering in Dublin. Yeats later commemorated this event in his famous
painting “Bachelor’s Walk: In Memory”.
€4,000 - €6,000