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Jack B. Yeats RHA (1871-1957) 'In the Days of Chivalry' - A Needle Affair (c.1902) Watercolour, 36 x 53.5cm (14.1 x 21") Signed The backing board inscribed 'To Leo/with best wishes/Dublin, November 1962/Victor" Provenance: Given by Victor Waddington to the Dawson Gallery owner in November 1962. Leo Smith and thence by descent. Exhibited: "Jack B. Yeats, Watercolours and Drawing Exhibition" The Dawson Gallery, November/December 1962, catalogue no. 19. "Jack B. Yeats Exhibition"North West Arts Festival organsied by Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Derry, April 1964, catalogue no. 11. May Festival Belfast, May 1964, catalogue no. 11. Literature: Pyle, Hillary; Jack B. Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels; IAP 1993, catalogue no. 421. Hillary Pyle has written: "The end of a jousting tournament at a country fair. It is heavily raining. Two men dressed as knights are losing their armour as they persist on continuing the fight, though their lances are broken and their horses have run away. The drawing has been dated 1894: but the style and subjectmatter suggest the period of the juvenile plays. The forms, particularly the horses, are sketched loosely in dark tones, lifted by a wash of pale green and pink." The following Lots 120-126 are from the estate of Michael Butler Yeats, formerly a Senator and M.E.P, son of the poet W.B Yeats and grandson of the painter John Butler Yeats. They are from the family collections, passed down by inheritance, and have never been exhibited. They are now offered for sale by the executors of Michael Yeats.