Lot 44
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ALBERT POWER RHA | Bust of W.B. Yeats

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • Albert Power RHA
  • Bust of W.B. Yeats
  • signed and dated: Albert Power 1918
  • bronze, on Connemara marble base
  • height (including base): 44.5cm., 17½in.

Provenance

Oliver St. John Gogarty, Renvyle;
Christie's, Dublin, 10 February 1986, lot 267

Exhibited

Boston, Boston College Museum of Art, America’s Eye: Irish Paintings from the Collection of Brian P. Burns, 26 January - 19 May 1996, no.48, illustrated p.139, with tour to Dublin, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, 19 June - 25 August 1996 and New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 25 September 1997 - 4 January 1998;
Washington, John F. Kennedy Center, Irish Paintings from the Collection of Brian P. Burns, 13 - 28 May 2000, illustrated p.112

Literature

Daniel J. Murphy (ed.), Lady Gregory Journals, Oxford University Press, Gerrard's Cross, 1987, vol.2, books 30-44, p.388

Condition

The work appears in good overall condition. Some dust as gathered in some of the crevices. Held on a metal plinth, with some minor signs of wear, on which the head can swivel. In turn this is held on a smaller Connemara marble base.
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