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Lot 42
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) The Bold Captain Frenay II watercolour and ink on paper signed lower right and titled on reverse 17½ x 13½cm (6.89 x 5.31in) Acquired directly from the artist in June 1955; By Descent In 1955 an art lover made out a cheque for £25 to Jack B. Yeats - and took home a prize, two early watercolours. A typewritten note taped to the back of one of them is a textbook lesson for the aspiring collector for it gives in great detail the circumstances in which the purchase was made. "He showed me several of his latest impressionist type of oil paintings, priced at that time £100. But I wanted one of his earlier works (of the style in the Irish Grammar books that he illustrated). After a search he discovered these two at the back of a curtained shelf. They were already framed. When I challenged him that they might be a print from the Cuala Press he said 'Anyone can tell that these are original!'
Lot 56
John Shinnors (b.1950) St. John's Night, Carraroe, Inishmor oil on canvas on panel signed lower right and titled on reverse 108 x 143cm (42.52 x 56.30in) Private Collection Limerick artist John Shinnors is justly celebrated for his inventive pictorial puzzles based on the most ordinary subject matter: mackerel laid out in the fishmongers counter, washing flapping on the clothes-line, Fresian cattle in a field, scarecrows, badgers, Loop Head lighthouse. Many of his chosen motifs share a monochrome, black-and-white palette. He prefers that colour, when he uses it, makes a point. It certainly does so in St. John's Night, Carraroe, Inishmor, which richly displays his expertise with shades of black and white and volcanic bursts of colour, and another trademark quality: an air of mystery and magic. St John's Eve, usually coincident with the Summer Solstice, is traditionally celebrated by communal bonfires, beacons in the night. Here, John Shinnors counterpoints the intense glow of the flames with a stark, elemental terrain, the bonfire in Carraroe with the forbidding sea-bound fortress of Inish Mór nearby. The dark shelf of the island's formidable cliffs juts out into the Atlantic waters, phosphorescent in the half-light of midsummer darkness. Midsummer mirrors midwinter in a fine example of pictorial drama. Aidan Dunne, March 2018.
Lot 82
A LARGE WOODEN CONSTRUCTED DISPLAY CASE/STORAGE CASE, by the maker 'James R & William Laing, Silversmiths, 10 Gordan Street, Glasgow, with original lock and key, the has a vacant, cartouche to the lid, contains a large number of British Military cap badges/devices, from the Victorian period through WWI/II and later, a fine collection of original pieces, but many contain some later re-strike or copies, the top lift up display shelf contains 114 badges in total, there are many rarely seen and scarce units here, such as Victorian Carlow Rifles (Ireland), Jewish Btn, Norfolk, Herefordshire, XII Royal Lancersm XXVI Hussars, North Irish Horse, Caernarvon & Denbigh Yeomanry, 2nd Btn Monmouthshire, Royal Dublin Fusiliers etc, also present is a small tobacco tin with the badge of 'The Loyal Regiment' mounted on the lid, also some photos and paperwork relating to the Death of a Josephine Mary Blower, the bottom drawer contains a further 164 badges and devices, making a grand total of 278 items in total, yet again, there are some scarcely seen units and titles here such as .... Ayrshire Earl of Carricks Own Yeomanry, Shropshire Yeomanry, Lancashire Volunteers (NE Lancs Volunteer Regiment), The Royal Dragoons, Scottish Horse, Northampshire Yeomanry, Artists Rifles etc, again most appear to be original issue, but there is a possibility of later re-strikes or copies, all in all great collection, housed in a nice display case
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