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25 Susan Mary (‘Lily’) Yeats (1866-1949) EMBROIDERED PANEL, FISA PLAYING HIS HARP Cloth, embroidered in coloured silks and wool With Cuala Industries label to verso, inscribed [Fisa Playing his Harp, worked by Lily Yeats, not for sale, copies 15 gns] in Lily Yeats’ hand and signed [W.B. Yeats, 82 Merrion Square] rear upper right in the poet’s hand; Also with a later label inscribed [Please return to Anne Yeats]. 38 by 29.50in. (96.5 by 74.9cm) Provenance: W.B. Yeats, to Anne Yeats; Her sale, H.O.K. 19 November 2002, lot 579; Where purchased by present owner This work shows a male and a female figure standing in front of a branching tree (the ‘harp’) under a crowned eagle, with a skull and other symbols below. Probably executed for W.B. Yeats by his sister as a commission, perhaps using some of his Nobel Prize money (1923). Presumably the subject had some special significance for Yeats (the eagle was one of his mystical symbols). €8000-€12000 (£7,270-£10,910 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 25