Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 27 SEPTEMBER 2023

www.adams.ie Important Irish Art | 27 September 2023 77 68 JACK BUTLER YEATS RHA (1871-1957) On the Stones - The Cattle Market, Caledonian Road, Selling Cheap Nags, (c.1950) Indian ink on card, 35.5 x 52cm (14 x 20½”) Signed Provenance: Waddington Galleries, London; Private Collection, Dublin Exhibited: ‘25th Annual Exhibition’, Art Society Belfast, 1905; ‘ Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland ’, Leinster Hall, Dublin, 1-20 October 1906, cat. No. 40; ‘ Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland ’, Walker Art Gallery, London, 3-29 February 1908, no. 43; ‘ Early Drawings and Watercolours ’, Victor Waddington, London 27 Oct - 18 Nov 1967, no. 10 (reproduced); ‘ Jack B. Yeats Retrospective Exhibition ’, Waddington Fine Arts, Montreal 12 March - 5 April 1969, no. 40 Literature: Manchester Guardian, 28 January 1905 (7); (reproduced); Pyle, Hilary, ‘ The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats. His Cartoons and Illustrations ’ Irish Academic Press, 1994, catalogue no. 651, p.117 (listed), p.119 (illus- trated) € 10,000 - 15,000 One from a series of twenty-eight illustrations of life in the East End of London, called Pastimes of the Lon- doners . Intended as a book which was not in the end published, this illustration did appear in the Manchester Guardian in January 1905 when it was accompanied by an article by Jack Yeats.