Lot 204
  • 204

Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.
  • Sketchbook: Ireland 1909
  • titled on cover and inscribed verso: Playboy/ The Abbey/ Play; variously inscribed throughout
  • pencil and watercolour
  • each sheet 9 by 12.5cm., 3½ by 5in.
including several character studies and sketches from plays, one inscribed: Play at the Abbey Theatre/ Robert Emmet and Tom Moore; other observations while the artist is travelling, such a memorial 'put up to a man killed/ by steam tram/ beside the road', figures resting by a waterfall and other scenes at 'Poulaphouka' (Co. Wicklow); a view 'looking over Dublin'; 'an English fisherman on the train to Connemara', scene of a 'tuberculosis lecture' at Ballycastle, Co. Mayo; 'Downpatrick Head'; approx. 43 sketches

Condition

The sketchbook is in good overall condition. Some natural wear and tear but each sheet appears sound and generally well preserved.
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