Adam's The Antoinette and Patrick J.Murphy Collection 23rd October 2019

51 www.adams.ie The Antoinette & Patrick J. Murphy Collection | 23rd October2019 38 JACK BUTLER YEATS RHA (1871-1957) The Edge of the Valley Wood (1900) Watercolour, 36 x 25cm (14 x 9.8“) Signed Provenance: Sir Robert and Lady Mayer, London; with The Dawson Gallery, Dublin. Exhibited: Dublin 1962; Derry/Belfast 1964; Dublin 1971-1972; New York, The New York Cultural Center, No.16. Literature: Hilary Pyle, ‘Jack B. Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels ’, Catalogue No.208, illustrated; W. St J. Joyce, ‘The Neighbourhood of Dublin ’, 1921, page 101-102. The Valley Wood is the entrance to the Rocky Valley which rises to the Great Sugar Loaf beyond Enniskerry. The view is of fields and hedges on the hillside above the wood, beneath a cloudy sky. € 8,000 - 12,000