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Lot 29
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)The Ring Master and the Clown (1909)Watercolour, 25 x 35cm (10 x 13¾")SignedProvenance: Peter Katz; sold to Victor Waddington, London 1967; With Victor Waddington Galleries, London, label verso Allen Figgis (owner); Waddington Galleries Montreal label verso; Sale, these rooms, 14 July, 1983; Private Collection, DublinExhibited: Dublin 1909, Aonach, Exhibition of Paintings, Cat. No.21Literature: Yeats, Jack B., Life in the West of Ireland (1912, 1915) 75; Yeats, Jack B., And to You Also (1944, 1974) 120; Pyle, Hilary, Jack B. Yeats His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, Cat. No.681, p.161 illusBy the time The Ringmaster and the Clown was first exhibited in 1909, Jack Yeats had already achieved a significant degree of fame and appreciation. Hugh Lane, a few years earlier, in his quest to establish a gallery of modern art in Dublin had approached artists and friends in an effort to persuade them to present works to form a nucleus of a collection. Jack Yeats, while still living in Devon presented three watercolours, The Rogue, The Melodeon Player and The Day of the Sports. By January 1908, The Dublin Municipal Gallery of Modern Art had opened at 17 Harcourt Street. According to Hilary Pyle, Jack Yeats had given what he considered his most up-to-date important work – character studies of contemporary Irishmen of the West.Pyle continues … ‘From about 1906, when Yeats was painting a little more in oil, a new spirit is noticeable in his watercolours. The images and manner are much the same as before, but they are treated more seriously, often isolated pictorially in space; and the themes generate a greater breadth of purpose. Synge’s friendship has made the artist see his Western Irish imagery in a wider context, so that landscapes and figures plumb more deeply from the particular to the universal’.Yeats writing in And to You Also in 1944, described ‘the parasol of the auditorium’ of the circus tent. ‘The sad-faced clown stumbles along on the ring-master’s left, while up above the ring-master on his right, sits the beautiful girl … on the back of a grand old cream horse … ’. The circus life theme stayed with Yeats throughout his career, the images from his childhood life in Sligo indelibly etched on his pictorial memory, notably in The Haute École Act and That Grand Conversation was under the Rose, the oils of 1925 and 1943. In the present work the clown is, as Hilary Pyle describes ‘…. in merry mood, looking coyly at the spectator’.
Lot 866
FOLK - LP COLLECTION. An introspective collection of 68 x LPs. Artists / Titles include John Renbourn inc. Sir John Alot Of, John Renbourn & Stefan Grossman, Another Monday, A Mediavel Almanack and The Black Balloon, Electric Muse - The Story of Folk into Rock, The Fairport Convention inc. History Of, Farewell, Farewell, Heyday and Live At The L.A. Troubadour, The Exiles - The Hale and the Hanged, Renaissance - A Song For All the Seasons, Tim Hart - Summer Solstice, Albion Country Band - Battle of the Field, Bert Jansch - The Ornament Tree, Lindisfarne inc. Fog on the Tyne (2 x copies), Dingly Dell (2 x copies) and Finest Hour, Martin Carthy - Because It's There, Carly Simon - No Secrets, John Kirkpatrick - Three In a Row - The English Melodeon and Therapy - Bringing the House Down. The condition is generally VG+ to Ex+.
Lot 149
A 'Harola' melodeon and a 'Marinelli Italia' accordion. The 'Harola' melodeon, made in Germany, circa 1915. (2)General cosmetic wear to both instruments due to their age. One of the buttons is missing on the Harola, and some of the buttons get stuck on the Marinelli. There also appears to be something loose inside the Harola that is rattling inside.
Lot 610
FIVE BOXES OF BOOKS, CERAMICS, GLASS, KITCHEN AND HOUSEHOLD SUNDRIES, CLOTING, ETC, to include audio book cassettes, cookery books, a bag of costume jewellery, pottery pie dishes, cutlery, aluminium jam pans, a German Regal Melodeon, a folder of fishing flies, five Robert Sorby chisels and two others, a box of masks and filters, etc (5 boxes & loose)
Lot 723
A Hohner 21 button melodeon Condition Report: The body of the instrument is sound. The chrome fittings are pitted. The bellows are in good condition. A leather fastening strap is disconnected. The buttons are in working order. The instrument requires restoration work.There is a rubbed inscription C/C or G/C.
Lot 5367
Five assorted Blues LPs to include Lightnin' Hopkins 'The Roots Of Lightnin' Hopkins' (Folkways Records FTS 31011, Skip James 'Greatest Of The Delta Blues Singer' (Melodeon MLP 7321), Robert Johnson 'King Of The Delta Blues singers' (CBS Archive Series BPG 62456), Hammie Nixon 'Tennessee Blues Vol.3' (albatross VPA 8277) and Blind Boy Fuller 'Truckin' My Blues Away' (Yazoo 1060) (5-media and sleeves generally EX)
Lot 175
SKIP JAMES/ SLEEPY JOHN ESTES' - BLUES LP RARITIES. A superb collectors pack of 2 blues LP rarities. Artists/ titles include Skip James - Greatest Of The Delta Blues Singers (MLP 7321, 1965 US pressing on Melodeon. 10/12/65 matrix. Labels are lovely bright and clean. The record is superb Ex/ The sleeve is also stunning Ex) & Sleepy John Estes' - Brownsville Blues With Hammie Nixon (DL-613, 1965 US pressing on Delmark. Record is superb Ex/ sleeve is strong VG+). Both sleeves have a small sticker on the bottom left corner of the cover.
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