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Susan Mary ('Lily') Yeats<R> (1866-1949)
Estimate:
€8,000 - €12,000
Passed
Live Auction
Irish & International Art
Size
38 by 29.50in. (96.5 by 74.9cm)
Description
Title: EMBROIDERED PANEL, FISA PLAYING HIS HARP
Note: This work shows a male and a female figure standing in front of a branching tree (the 'harp') under a crowned eagle, with a skull and other symbols below. Probably executed for W.B. Yeats by his sister as a commission, perhaps using some of his Nobel Prize money (1923). Presumably the subject had some special significance for Yeats (the eagle was one of his mystical symbols).
Note: This work shows a male and a female figure standing in front of a branching tree (the 'harp') under a crowned eagle, with a skull and other symbols below. Probably executed for W.B. Yeats by his sister as a commission, perhaps using some of his Nobel Prize money (1923). Presumably the subject had some special significance for Yeats (the eagle was one of his mystical symbols).
Medium
Cloth, embroidered in coloured silks and wool
Signature
With Cuala Industries label to verso, inscribed [Fisa Playing his Harp, worked by Lily Yeats, not for sale, copies 15 gns] in Lily Yeats' hand and signed [W.B. Yeats, 82 Merrion Square] rear upper right in the poet's hand; Also with a later label inscribed [Please return to Anne Yeats].
Provenance
W.B. Yeats, to Anne Yeats;Her sale, H.O.K. 19 November 2002, lot 579;Where purchased by present owner
