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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Roundstone Bay, Co. Galway
Oil on board, 11.5 x 21cm (4½ x 8¼”)
Signed with initials, inscribed verso
€2,000 - 3,000
William Butler Years was the eldest son of the artist John Butler Yeats
and brother to the artist Jack. He spent the first 15 years of his life in
London, attending the Godolphin School in Hammersmith. He spent
his holidays in Sligo with his Grandparents, the Pollexfens, as did his
brother Jack.
William attended the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin from
1884 to 1885 and then in 1886 at the RHA schools. Around this time,
having met the artist and mystic, George Russell ‘AE’, he decided to
devote himself to writing and abandoned his artistic studies, going on
to become the most important and influential Irish poet of the 20th
Century.
In the mid 1890’s Yeats met Lady Gregory and in 1897 he spent the
first of numerous summers at her house, Coole Park, Gort in Co Gal-
way. During these visits he toured the west of the country, executing
on occasions small landscape views such as the present works.
A virtually identical work was offered in our sale of December 5th
2001 (#116), depicting Mount Cashel, Co Galway from near Maam
Cross. It was painted on a similar panel of the same dimensions and
also signed with initials and inscribed with title on reverse.
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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Roundstone, Co. Galway
Oil on board, 11.5 x 21cm (4½ x 8¼”)
Inscribed verso
€2,000 - 3,000
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William Butler Yeats RHA (1865-1939)
“The Speckled Bird”
Volume I & II (uncut) printed by The Cuala Press,
July 1974
Numbered 305/500 (in original slipcase)
€60 - 100