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  • JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE BY YEATS AT WHYTE’S

    JOHN BUTLER YEATS RHA (1839-1922 – PORTRAIT OF JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE. UPDATE: THIS MADE 8,500 AT HAMMER

    This portrait of playwright John Millington Synge by John Butler Yeats comes up as lot 27 at Whyte’s sale of Irish and International art in Dublin on March 7. A key figure in the Gaelic Revival he is best known as author of The Playboy of the Western World and as co-founder with W B Yeats and Lady Gregory of The Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Estimated at 8,000-12,000 it is one of a number of works from the collection of Lady Gregory in the auction from artists like John and Jack Yeats, George Russell and Robert Gregory. The sale goes on view at Whyte’s at Molesworth St. in Dublin on March 2.

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for February 14, 2022)

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