Lot 27 Jack Butler Yeats

Jack B. Yeats RHA 1871-1957 THE NIGHT HAS GONE (1947) Oil on canvas, 18'' x 24'' (46cm x 61cm), signed. Exhibited: 1947 Dublin (9); 1948 Leeds: 1948 London (78) Provenance: Sold at the exhibition in 1947 to Miss H. MacMahon, later Mrs. Gertrude Feuerring, New York. 'The artist walks alone in the landscape , his head surrounded by the night sky above the low horizon. But the night is rolling away, and light is breaking out in the east'- Jack B. Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings by Hilary Pyle, No 876, page 791, Vol II