Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871 - 1957) Pity the Dark Man (1899) Watercolour, 44.5 x 28cm (17½ x 11) Signed and dated Exhibited : Jack B. Yeats - Sketches of life in the West of Ireland, The...

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871 - 1957) Pity the Dark Man (1899) Watercolour, 44.5 x 28cm (17½ x 11) Signed and dated Exhibited : Jack B. Yeats - Sketches of life in the West of Ireland, The Walker Art Gallery London, February 1899, Catalogue No.25 Jack B. Yeats - Sketches of life in the West of Ireland, The Leinster Hall, Dublin, May 1899, Catalogue No.21 Jack B. Yeats - recent watercolours, Clausen Galleries New York, March/April 1904, Catalogue No.41 Literature: Jack B. Yeats 1871 - 1957 by T.G. Rosenthal, The Masters Series - No. 40, London 1966, Pages 3 & 5 (Illustrated Fig.2) Jack B. Yeats - His watercolours, drawings and pastels, by Hilary Pyle Irish Academic Press 1993, Catalogue No.174 Hilary Pyle has written: Yeats gives a graphic picture of the blind man, sitting with his hat outstretched, his stick laid on the ground beside him. It seems the words on the card hanging from the man’s neck appealed to him as much as the image of the professional looking plaintiff. The scene seems to be taking place at a race meeting in the West.

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