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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) A LAMENT FOR ART O'LEARY, 1940

coloured prints; (6) (framed)

variously signed in the plate with monogram or in full

13 by 11cm., 5.25 by 4.25in.

Literature:
Pyle, Hilary, 'Jack B. Yeats His Cartoons and Illustrations', Irish Academic Press, 1994, p. 204 (illustrated)

Titles for all six include, Horse and Ride, Horse and Rider with Whip, Horse at Gate, Mother and Two Children, Woman Carrying Coffin and Woman Grieving over Fallen Ride. Pyle notes: "Frank O'Connor's translation from the Irish, A Lament for Art O'Leary, with illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, was published in a limited edition of 130 copies by the Cuala Press in 1940. The poem from West Cork tells of the death of Art O'Leary, a firebrand and ex-officer of the Austrian army, married in 1768 to a young widow, Eileen O'Connell, to whom the lament is ascribed. In terse oblique visual images Yeats encapsulates the tragedy of the event". The original drawings of these prints can be found in the collection of Theo Waddington's Irish Art Project.