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Antiques & Fine Art: Des O'Sullivan takes a look at what's in the frame for Whyte's evening sale

Waiting for the Ferry, low tide by Jack B. Yeats at Whyte's.

A lone figure stands at the water’s edge in Waiting for the Ferry, Low Tide. This enigmatic work is the catalogue cover lot at Whyte’s evening sale of Important Irish and International Art in Dublin on Monday week next (March 22).

It was acquired by American sculptor Helen Hooker O’Malley in the same year that she sought a divorce from the Irish revolutionary Ernie O’Malley. The O’Malleys were important collectors of Yeats in the 1930s and 1940s.