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  • Posts Tagged ‘Yeats Romeo and Juliet’

    TRAGEDY AND ROMANCE AT DE VERES IRISH ART SALE

    Thursday, December 3rd, 2020

    A Romeo and Juliet oil on canvas by Jack B. Yeats which sold for £62,562 at Bonhams earlier this year comes up at de Veres in Dublin on December 8 with an estimate of €100,000-150,000. Romeo and Juliet, The Last Act is from 1927 and is based on a performance of Gounod’s opera at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin in 1926. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 195,000 AT HAMMER

    (See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for June 3 and February 8, 2019)

    Here is a video about the work from de Veres.