IMPORTANT IRISH ART 3 MARCH 2025

26 17 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) LETTERS TO F.W. SAUNDERS (5), 1930s-40s ink on ‘18 Fitzwilliam Square Dublin’ letterhead 8 by 10in. (20.3 by 25.4cm) April 17 1939 2 pages, with mention of Patrick MacDonagh, ‘WB’s widow’ and children - ‘the daughter [Anne] designs the scenery at the Abbey Theatre’; 19 November 1940 2 pages, with mention of schoolmates - Eades, Slack, Williams and Erskine, also ‘an exhibition of my paintings in a new gallery here’; 22 February 1941 4 pages, with mention of the ‘Hazlewood Races’, Dr. Rowlette, Miss Cunningham’s library donated to Trinity College, a fight at Eade’s School in which Yeats kicked ‘the shins of the bully’ a vivid description of a Point to Point race which he wanted to paint, and his suggestion to a ‘millionaire’ to have the snow brushed off the Dublin mountains into Kilkenny and Carlow!; 29 April 1942, 2 pages with mention of Sara Allgood, includes an ink drawing of a painting Yeats owned of a famous court case, and his new play ‘LaLa Noo’ to have a ‘one night stand’ at the Abbey; 19 December 1943, with description of the Christmas decorations in Dublin - ‘Henry Street makes the bravest show of all’ [Christmas in Henry Street 1945 by Jack Butler Yeats, Whyte’s lot 60, 26 April 2005] with ink drawings of Henry Street traders; undated Christmas wishes with drawing of a wheel and a winged insect. Also with this lot a 10 July 1939 2 page letter from Elizabeth ‘Lolly’Yeats, mainly about The Barn Theatre performance of W.B. Yeats works. Also correspondence from Joseph Hone (W.B. Yeats’ biographer) and J. Kilgannon and a large collection of newspaper cuttings of the Yeats’s including William and Jack. €3,000-€4,000 (£2,500-£3,330 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot17