Jack B. Yeats The Young One, dated 1891 on label. UPDATE: THIS MADE 22,500 AT HAMMER.
A fresh to market watercolour by Jack B. Yeats is the catalogue cover lot for the Morgan O’Driscoll’s evening auction of Irish art at the RDS in Dublin on April 28. Dated from 1891 The Young One depicts O’Connell St. in Sligo on what is probably market day. Yeats was brought up in Sligo and retained his affection for the city. The work is estimated at 20,000-30,000. Highlights include works by Paul Henry, Gerard Dillon, Donald Teskey, William Conor and Cecil Maguire. Here is a small selection.
Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958)
A Western Landscape 1919 (40,000-60,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 37,500 AT HAMMER
Walter Frederick Osborne RHA (1859-1903)
An Interior of a Coach House
oil on board (20,000-30,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 19,000 AT HAMMER
William Crozier HRHA (1930-2011)
Island Field (6,000-9,000). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Donald Teskey (b.1956)
Ballycastle, Co. Mayo, September ’96 (5,000-7,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 7,000 AT HAMMER
Basil Ivan Rakoczi (1908-1979)
The Game (1,500-2,500). UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,400 AT HAMMER
Daniel O’Neill (1920-1974)
Figures in Landscape
oil on board (3,000-5,000). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.