Items from the studio of Jack B Yeats.
A Jack B Yeats studio collection which includes a drawing in colours and a sketch, paintbrushes, opened and unopened Winsor and Newton paints, pencils, chalk, palettes, monogrammed blank sketchbooks, and a vintage studio ephemera comes up at Gormley’s auction in Dublin on March 10. The collection is expected to make in excess of €50,000. After his death in 1957 the contents of his Fitzwilliam Square home in Dublin were inherited by his niece Anne Yeats, daughter of the poet W B Yeats. Of particular note are a Cornish Wafers tin serving as a paint box with the initials JB and Paint Tubes handwritten on both the lid and box exterior, and an original paintbox with extendible tripod legs which serves as a wall mounted easel. A portrait of Yeats by Liam O’Neill also features in a collection to be auctioned as part of an Irish and international art auction by Gormleys
