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Important Irish Art 27th May 2015
www.adams.ie 65 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871 - 1957) Pity the Dark Man (1899)Watercolour, 44.5 x 28 cm (17½ x 11”)
Signed and dated
Exhibited : “Jack B. Yeats - Sketches of life in the West of Ireland” The Walker Art
Gallery London February 1899 Cat. No. 25
“Jack B. Yeats - Sketches of life in the West of Ireland” The Leinster
Hall, Dublin May 1899 Cat. No. 21
“Jack B. Yeats - recent watercolours” Clausen Galleries New York,
March/April 1904 Cat. No. 41
Literature: “Jack B. Yeats 1871 - 1957 by T.G. Rosenthal “The Masters Series -
No. 40” London 1966 Pages 3 & 5 (Illus Fig 2)
“Jack B. Yeats - His watercolours,drawings and pastels” by
Hilary Pyle Irish Academic Press 1993 Cat. No. 174
Hilary Pyle has written :- “Yeats gives a graphic picture of the blindman,sittingwith his
hatoutstretched,hisstick laidonthegroundbesidehim.Itseemsthewordsonthecard
hanging fromthemans neck appealed to himasmuch as the image of the professional
looking plaintiff”. The scene seems to be taking place at a race meeting in the West.
€7,000 - €10,000