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  • YEATS TOPS THE BILL AT ADAMS IRISH ART SALE

    ack Butler Yeats RHA (1871 - 1957) Roundstone, Connemara (1916)

    ack Butler Yeats RHA (1871 – 1957) Roundstone, Connemara (1916)

    A 1916 oil on panel by Jack B. Yeats was the top lot at James Adam sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin on May 27. Roundstone, Connemara sold for a hammer price of 58,000 over a top estimate of 35,000.   It had been bought by Oliver St. John Gogarty at an exhibition in 1918.  It was one of a number of works which sold above the high estimate. Among the others were:

    George Russell Æ (1867-1935) Apparell'd in Celestial Light

    George Russell Æ (1867-1935) Apparell’d in Celestial Light

    A Farmstead, Co. Armagh by John Luke made 40,000 over a top estimate of 30,000.  Sir John Lavery’s  A Street in Rabat sold for 38,000 over a top estimate of 15,000 and a Cubist landscape by Mary Swanzy sold for 20,000 over a top estimate of 12,000.  George Russell’s Apparrell’d in Celestial Light, the catalogue cover lot, sold for  21,000 at hammer over a top estimate of 10,000. A sculpture by Rowan Gillespie – O’Carolan, Spirit of the Blind Harpist – made 17,000 over a top estimate of 7,000.

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for May 19, 2015).

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