Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 21st October 2019

I rish & I nternational A rt M onday 21 st O ctober 2019 at 6.00 pm 63 47 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) The Derelict Ship (1946) signed lower left ‘JACK B YEATS’ and titled verso oil on canvas 46 x 61cm (18.1 x 24in) Provenance: Victor Waddington, London; Mr. and Mrs A. Sanderson, London; Christie’s London: 11th June 1982: Lot no. 145; Private Collection; Sotheby’s, London: 13th May 1987: Lot no.176; Private Collection, Ireland; Theo Waddington Fine Art, London; Waddington Galleries, London; Private Collection, UK Private Collection, Ireland Exhibited: Jack B.Yeats: Oil Paintings’, Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin: 30th October - 8th November 1946, catalogue no.14; ‘Jack B.Yeats: Peintures’, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Paris: February 1954, catalogue no.33; ‘Jack B. Yeats: A Celtic Visionary’, City Art Galleries, Manchester: 9th March - 21st April 1996; touring to Leeds City Art Galleries: 27th April - 2nd June 1996: Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast: 7th June - 6th July 1996, catalogue no. 5 (reproduced in colour); ‘Jack B. Yeats: Paintings and Works on Paper’, Waddington Galleries and Theo Waddington Fine Art, London: 20th November - 21st December 1996, catalogue no.13 (reproduced in colour); ‘Jack B. Yeats: Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings’, Waddington Galleries, London, in association with Theo Waddington, 16th November - 17th December 2005, catalogue no.4 (reproduced in colour p.17); ‘Father and Son: Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings by John Butler Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats’, Theo and Vivienne Waddington’s Irish Art Project at 5a Cork Street, London: 5th - 30th May 2009 Literature: Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Hilary Pyle, André Deutsch, London, 1992, no.781, p.704 (reproduced in black and white p.217, plate 205; listed p.304); This work is recorded in the artist’s Log Book II, under “D”, where Yeats dates it June 1946 €150,000-250,000 (£132,743-221,238)