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  • YEATS AND THE COLLEEN BAWN AT MORGAN O’DRISCOLL SALE

    JACK BUTLER YEATS (1871-1957) – A Girl Clings to a Young Man on the Beach. UPDATE: THIS MADE 4,000 AT HAMMER

    THIS pencil on paper by Jack Butler Yeats titled A Girl Clings to a Young Man on the Beach is from a 1904 illustration for The Collegians. It is based on the 1829 novel by G. Griffin on a notorious murder of a woman in Co. Limerick in 1819. She had been secretly married to a local landlord. Dion Boucicault based The Colleeen Bawn on Griffin’s version of the tale. The signed work comes up at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current online sale of Irish art with an estimate of €3,000-€5,000. The auction runs until the evening of September 11 and the catalogue is online. Meantime there will be viewing in Skibbereen on September 7, 8 and 11.

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