Lot 291
  • 291

John Butler Yeats

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • John Butler Yeats
  • Three sketchbooks of portraits, including those of Francis Hackett and the sculptor Jo Davidson and various other subjects, some of which were drawn at the home of Celestine Petitpas, 317 West 29th Street, New York
  • bears inscriptions and dates throughout
  • pencil on 30 sketchbook pages
  • one 11 by 16cm., 4¼ by 6¼in., the other two 13 by 20cm., 5 by 8in.

Provenance

Collection of the William M. Murphy Trust

Condition

Each of the sketch book covers are in a worn and well-used condition with lose bindings. Most of the sketches within are lose, showing signs of their age and wear as expected of sketchbooks of this nature, but overall the individual sheets appear sound.
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Catalogue Note

William M. Murphy was a renowned Yeats family scholar and author of The Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats and Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and his Relatives.