Adam's: Important Irish Art: Lot 94
Jack B. Yeats RHA (1871-1957) Downpatrick Head,
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Jack B. Yeats RHA (1871-1957) Downpatrick Head, Co. Mayo Oil on board, 23 x 35.5cm (9 x 14") Signed Provenance: Leo Smith, November 1946 Sir Hugh Beaver; thence by descent to Mrs. C. Lawson-Tancred; Christies, 17th November 1978, lot 164 Exhibited: Dublin, Stephen's Green Gallery, Drawings and Paintings of Life in the West of Ireland, February-March 1921, no.13 Literature: Hillary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats; A Catalogue RaisonnÚ of the Oil Paintings I, London, 1992, no.11, p.12 (illustrated p.6) Hillary Pyle has described the view (pp.11-12), "Downpatrick Head, five miles north-east of Ballycastle, lies on the right horizon, with the spectacular Doonbristy - the cliff with promontory fort cut off at the end of the Head - in the centre"
