Irish Art, including Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
Irish Art, including Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit
Property from the Yeats Family
JOHN BUTLER YEATS | TWO SKETCHBOOKS
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September 9, 02:37 PM GMT
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2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Property from the Yeats Family
JOHN BUTLER YEATS
1839-1922
TWO SKETCHBOOKS
one dated 1916
pencil and pen and ink
(2)
one 15 by 20cm., 6 by 8in.; the other 10.5 by 17.5cm., 5 by 7in.
The Artist, thence by family descent
The present sketchbooks date from the artist's time in New York, where Yeats travelled to in 1907 with his daughter Lolly on a return ticket. Yeats could not be persuaded to leave, however, immersing himself in the Irish-American community, where, in the words of the American painter John Sloan, he was regarded as 'philosopher-king'. As was his life-time practice, he was constantly sketching and the present books contain numerous portrait sketches, including one self-portrait. One sketchbook contains 25 sheets, the other 24 sheets.