Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 4 DECEMBER 2024

46 21 JACK BUTLER YEATS RHA (1871-1957) He Reads a Book (1952) Oil on canvas, 46 x 61cm (18 x 24’’) Signed Provenance: Sold by the artist to Victor Waddington Galleries, December 1956; Collection Vincent and Jacqueline O’Brien, Ireland 1971, thence by descent. Exhibited: London, Wildenstein, Recent Paintings, 4 – 28 March 1953, cat.no.15; Dublin, Victor Waddington Galleries, Oil Paintings, October 1953, cat.no.4; Dublin, Municipal Gallery, An Tóstal: Irish Painting 1903 – 1953, April – July, 1953, cat.no.3; Belfast, Museum and Art Gallery, Paintings, (organised by CEMA, the Council for Encourage- ment of Music and the Arts), February – March, 1956, cat.no.38; Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, on loan from 2017 to 2024. Literature: Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Andre Deutsch, London, 1992, cat.no. 1111, p.1013 (illustrated) € 500,000 - 700,000 Vincent & Jacqueline O’Brien Collection