Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 1st June 2022

74 42 JOHN BUTLER YEATS (1839-1922) Study of a Lady Pencil, 27 x 22cm (10¾ x 8¾”) Signed and dated May 24th, 1900 € 4,000 - 6,000 43 JOHN BUTLER YEATS RHA (1839-1922) Portrait of Lily Yeats Pencil, 24 x 18.5cm (9½ x 7¼’’) Inscribed ‘Lily Yeats’ Provenance: The artist’s family; their sale, Sotheby’s, London 27/9/2017, lot no.151. € 4,000 - 6,000 44 SUSAN MARY (LILY) YEATS (1866-1949) Fisa Playing his Harp, (after a design by Boris Anrep) Cloth embroidered with coloured silks and wool, 96 x 74cm (38 x 28”) Cuala Industries label verso, inscribed in Lily Yeats’ hand, ‘Anrep, Fisa Playing his Harp, worked by Lily Yeats, not for sale, copies 15 gns. Lent by W.B. Yeats’, and further inscribed up- per centre in the poet’s hand, ‘W.B. Yeats, 82 Merrion Square’. With a later label, ‘Please return to Anne Yeats’. Exhibited: Arts & Crafts Society of Ireland 1925, no. 236, where the design is attributed to Von Anrep, executed by Lily Yeats. Provenance: W.B. Yeats, to Anne Yeats; Her sale, H.O.K. 19/11/2002 lot 579, (illus. in catalogue), where bought by current owner. € 5,000 - 8,000