SOLD Hammer price €400
John Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)”Portrait of Lady in Black Dress,” possibly one of the Pollexfens, O.O.C., approx. 92cms x 71cms (36″ x 28″) gilt frame. (1)Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
SOLD Hammer price €6500
John Butler Yeats R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)”Self-Portrait holding a Pipe,” pencil on paper, undated, probably circa 1918, 30.5cms x 23cms (12″ x 9 «”), framed, very well executed in his mature style. (1)Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
SOLD Hammer price €13000
John Butler Yeats R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)”Self-portrait,” O.O.C., 29″ x 24″ approx., half length, palette in hand, with a meditative look. * Painted before he went to America, possibly circa 1901, the year of his exhibition with Nathaniel Hone. An excellent likeness of the painter at work, as many sitters must have seen him, pondering a brush stroke or a conversational gambit. (1)Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
SOLD Hammer price €1500
John Butler Yeats R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)”Sketch of Frank Fay,” pencil, approx. 25cms x 17cms (10″ x 7″), inscribed “Frank Fay,” framed. (1)Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.* The portrait of Frank Fay was commissioned by Annie Horniman for the opening of the Abbey Theatre in December 1904. Fay was a leading actor who developed the acting style at Abbey Theatre Company. His first part was that of Cuchullain in W.B. Yeats “On Baile’s Strand”.
SOLD Hammer price €1700
John Butler Yeats R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)”Sketch of a Young Lady Seated,” (possibly one of the Yeats Sisters) approx. 26cms x 20cms (10″ x 8″), signed and dated April 8th, 1892, framed. (1)Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
SOLD Hammer price €360
John Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)”Sketch of Isaac Yeats,” pencil, approx. 17cms x 11cms (7″ x 4 1/2″), inscribed “Isaac Yeats,” framed.Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
SOLD Hammer price €260
John Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)”Sketch of an Old Man Seated,” pencil, approx. 17cms x 12cms (7″ x 5″), framed. (1)Provenance: The Yeats Family.
SOLD Hammer price €600
John Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)”Sketch of Susan Mitchell,” pencil, approx. 27cms x 22cms (10 1/2″ x 9″), inscribed “Susan Mitchell” (in Lily Yeats hand) framed. (1)Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.* Susan Mitchell was an Irish Poet and Literary Critic (1866 – 1926).
SOLD Hammer price €420
John Butler Yeats R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)A heavily worked ink and wash Drawing of a seated young woman reading, possibly Susan Mitchell, circa 13 ins x 9 ins, in an old gilt frame. (1)Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
SOLD Hammer price €750
John Butler Yeats R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)An attractive Portrait of a Young Lady wearing a red bow tie, oil on canvas, 11 « ins x 8 « ins, in gilt frame, probably a relation. (1)Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
SOLD Hammer price €3000
John Butler Yeats R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)A good Portrait of a Young Lady, probably Susan Mitchell, watercolour on board, framed, approx. 10 ins x 9 ins.* Susan Mitchell lived with the Yeats family in London as a paying guest for some years, and was effectively a member of the family.Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
SOLD Hammer price €475
John Butler Yeats R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)A good Sketch in profile of a bearded man, possibly York Powell, inscribed ‘J.B. Yeats’, 13cms x 18cms (5″x 7″), framed on a stand, double sided, the reverse with a sketch of a clean shaven man reading a paper, probably John Pollexfen. (1)Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
SOLD Hammer price €1000
John Butler Yeats R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)The Water-Wheel and Mill-Houses at Ballisodare, Co. Sligo, seen from across the weir, watercolour on paper, circa 5 ins x 7 ins, framed. * The mill was owned by his wife’s relations, the Middleton and Pollexfen families; this attractive scene may have been painted on an early visit, before JBY moved to London. (1)Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
SOLD Hammer price €1000
John Butler Yeats R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)A large watercolour Drawing on card, circa 66cms x 50cms (26″ x 20″), in a naive style, showing a Mystical Scene with a Man and Woman in foreground, others looking on, while rain falls on a head partly buried in the ground at their feet. Possibly Biblical in inspiration, but we have not traced the reference. From the Yeats family collections, possibly from collection of John Butler Yeats or W.B. Yeats. (1)Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
SOLD Hammer price €460
John Butler Yeats R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)An ink and wash Drawing of two girls seated, the figures very like his daughters, with another of a woman outside a door, both on board, 27cms x 18cms (10 «” x 7″), both a little soiled, probably illustrations; also two vigorous watercolour drawings of a collision at sea, with a related pencil sketch, a watercolour of a tree in Spring (two versions), a watercolour interior, and a watercolour of boats, nine in all. As a collection, w.a.f. (1)Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
SOLD Hammer price €400
John Butler Yeats R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)A good watercolour “Portrait of a Lady,” probably his daughter Lily, circa 10 ins x 8 ins; a sketch of “Alderman Cotton, MP for South Dublin,” signed and dated Sept. 1900, pencil on paper, 5 « x 9 ins, mounted on card, titled rear probably in Jack Yeats’ hand; also a “Portrait of a Woman,” another lightly coloured portrait of a woman (probably Mrs.Yeats), a pencil sketch (soiled) probably of Rosa Butt, and an ink sketch of a river scene inscribed ‘from my bed room window, J.B. Yeats 1906’, and a faded portrait of a woman, watercolour, 13 « x 7 ins, mounted, signed Cottie Yeats.As a collection, w.a.f.Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
SOLD Hammer price €420
John Butler Yeats R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)Two fine Drawings, ink and wash and pencil and wash respectively, both on card, each showing a girl (the model probably his daughter Lily), the first in pensive mood, leaning on her arms, the second with outstretched hand, the second a little foxed. Also a watercolour of a ruined house, mounted, 5 ins x 8 ins, inscribed rear ‘By J.B. Yeats Senior’ in Jack Yeats’ hand. (3)Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
SOLD Hammer price €500
John Butler Yeats R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)A collection of 14 proofs of his Drawings for Dent’s edition of the works of Defoe, including Robinson Crusoe, some marked ‘Rough proof; need not return’. In an envelope inscribed in Lily Yeats’ hand.* The Dent commission was a godsend for JBY, extending over some 14 volumes with several illustrations in each. The faces of his children may be recognised in some of the figures. Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
SOLD Hammer price €380
John Butler Yeats R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)An attractive drawing, watercolour and wash on board, 35cms x 28cms (14″ x 11″), showing a young woman with a cavalier in front of an archway, a cadaver looming in the background. Evidently an illustration, probably for the ‘Ghost Story’ which JBY wrote and illustrated, but never published. The young woman is clearly modelled on his daughter Lily.With a second drawing, also probably an illustration, watercolour and wash on board, 14 ins x 10 ins, showing a musician and other figures in 17th century dress. Both drawings lightly foxed / soiled.Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.
SOLD Hammer price €280
John Butler Yeats R.H.A. (1839 – 1922)A watercolour showing a grey haired man with distracted face, apparently bidding farewell to a daughter, other children in background, 17cms x 25cms (6 «” x 10″), probably an illustration. Inscribed rear ‘Yeats’. (1)Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.