John Butler Yeats
Self-Portrait
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May 10, 01:36 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
John Butler Yeats
1839 - 1922
Self-Portrait
pencil on paper
unframed: 49.5 by 36cm., 19½ by 14¼in.
framed: 78.5 by 66cm.; 31 by 26in.
Executed circa 1911.
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John Butler Yeats
1839 - 1922
Auto-Portrait
crayon sur papier
sans cadre: 49.5 by 36cm., 19½ by 14¼in.
avec cadre: 78.5 by 66cm.; 31 by 26in.
Exécuté vers 1911.
The Artist, thence by family descent, from where acquired by the present owner
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L'artiste, puis par descendance familiale, où l'actuel propriétaire l'a acquise
The present work relates to John Butler Yeats's great, last self-portrait (sold Sotheby's, Yeats: The Family Collection, 27 September 2017, lot 64) which he was commissioned to paint in 1911 by his patron John Quinn while living in New York. The portrait became something of an obsession, 'I think of nothing else and dream of it' (JBY quoted in James White, John Butler Yeats and the Irish Renaissance, 1972, p.27). It resulted in a number of pencil studies such as the present example.
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