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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE
pencil
signed in monogram, centre; with sitter’s name lower centre
9 x 7in. (22.86 x 17.78cm)
The Collection of Anne Yeats;Her sale, HOK, 19 November 2002, lot 591;Whence purchased by the present owner
From a sketchbook now in the National Gallery of Ireland. Synge was an important influence on Yeats and together they
toured the most poverty stricken areas of Connemara, the Aran Islands and North Mayo in 1905. Synge wrote about
this trip for the Manchester Guardian and Yeats illustrated the articles. He later illustrated Synge’s The Aran Islands and In
Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara.
€4000-€6000 (£2880-£4320 approx.)
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 8IMPORTANT IRISH ART · 30 November 2015