Jack B. Yeats R.H.A. (Irish, 1871-1957) My Friend Beneath the Sea signed 'JACK B YEATS' (lower right) and titled 'My Friend/Beneath/the Sea' (verso) oil on panel 23 x 36 cm. (9 x 14 1/8 in.) Painted in 1924 Footnotes: Provenance W.M. Glynn, 1943 Private Collection, U.S.A. Exhibited Dublin, Engineers' Hall, Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland, 27 March-8 April 1924, cat.no.9 London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Pictures of Irish Life,12 March-4 April 1925, cat.no.7 Dublin, Contemporary Picture Galleries, Later Work, 27 October-8 November 1941, cat.no.13 Waterford, Municipal Gallery, Loan Exhibition, 26 June-10 July 1965, cat.no.13 Literature Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Volume I, Andre Deutsch, London, 1992, p.209, cat.234 (ill.b&w) As Hilary Pyle has commented, the present work depicts 'a naked figure swimming just below the surface of the sea, seen from below. The image is a memory of childhood in Sligo, when the artist went swimming with a friend, and they amused themselves by diving to the bottom and looking up from there. Yeats made a pen and ink sketch of this...possibly exercises from memory, some years after he painted them.' (Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Volume I, Andre Deutsch, London, 1992, p.209). This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * AR * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. AR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com