Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)

'Kathleen Ni-Houlihan'

Details

Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)
'Kathleen Ni-Houlihan'
signed 'JACK B/YEATS' (lower left)
pen, black ink and watercolour
6¼ x 4¾ in. (15.8 x 12 cm.)
Executed in 1914

Provenance

Dawson Gallery, Dublin.

Literature

H. Pyle, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats His Cartoons and Illustrations, Dublin, 1994, no.1960.

Exhibited

Dublin, Mills Hall, Drawings and Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland, April 1920, no.30.
Dublin, Dawson Gallery, Jack B. Yeats Watercolours and Pen and Ink Drawings, November-December 1962, no.69.

Lot Essay

The present work is an illustration to Kathleen Ni-Houlihan by James Clarence Mangan and was reproduced in A Broadside, No.1 in June 1914. William Butler Yeats, the artist's brother, wrote a one-act play entitled Cathleen Ni Houlihan for Maud Gonne, an actress to whom he twice and unsuccessfully proposed marriage.

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