Lot 41 Jack Butler Yeats

Jack Butler Yeats RHA, 1871-1957 MULDOON & RATTLESNAKE (1928) Oil on canvas, 9'' x 14'' (23 x 35.5cm), signed Exhibited: 1928 London (21); 1965 Waterford (5); 2011 The Model Museum, Sligo - Yeats Outsider Exhibition Provenance: Sold to Miss G. Poer O'Shea at the London exhibition in 1928; Private Collection; de Veres, November, 2009; Private Collection. Literature: Jack B. Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings by Hilary Pyle, No.375 , page 341, Vol I, which states: 'A jockey and his mount on Drumcliffe Strand, in Sligo, the rider leaning down to speak to a supporter. Ben Bulben is in the background'