Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 4 DECEMBER 2024

24 JACK BUTLER YEATS RHA (1871-1957) Willie Reilly (The Singing Actor) (1902) Oil on canvas, laid on board, 61 x 47cm (24 x 18 ½’’) Signed Provenance: Sold in 1902 to John Quinn, his sale, American Art Galleries (New York), 10 February 1927, lot 236, bought by Ernest Boyd; With Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin; With The Dawson Gallery, Dublin; Collection Vincent and Jacqueline O’Brien, Ireland 1971, thence by de- scent. Exhibited: Dublin, Wells Central Hall, Sketches of Life in the West of Ire- land, 18 – 30 August, 1902, cat.no.23; 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.3, p.4; John Quinn 1870 – 1925: collection of paintings, watercolours and sculp- ture (1926), repro p.159 as The Singing Actor. € 150,000 - 200,000 Vincent & Jacqueline O’Brien Collection