Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)Early Morningoil on panelsigned lower left and titled verso24 x 36cm (9.4 x 14.2in)Provenance: Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin 1943; Collection of Leo Smith, late 1950's; Private Collection, Ireland; Private Collection, UK; Private Collection, Northern Ireland Literature: Hilary Pyle, Jack B Yeats - A Catalogue Raisonee of the Oil Paintings, Andre Deutsch Ltd., London, 1992. Volume 1, Catalogue No.523 on page 482 (illustrated). As Hilary Pyle notes in her catalogue raisonné, in the early 1940's Jack Yeats painted two small landscapes in the early 1940's, both entitled Early Morning. This panel, which is signed on the lower left, is probably Early Morning, Tipperary. Framed by a tree on the right, a sun-dappled laneway in the foreground and a luminous early morning sky above, this joyous painting celebrates the beauty of an ordinary everyday ditch and hedgerow in the West of Ireland. The hedgerow is a symphony of colour, with russets, greens, yellows and brown combining to recreate the feeling experienced by the artist as he walked along this country road. This is Yeats painting the memory of a lived experience, rendering sky and vegetation with expressive and intuitive flashes of colour, applied with a palette knife to the canvas. The tree on the right is sinuous and almost fragmentary, captured as it were with the leaves being rustled by the wind. The laneway is lost to sight as it disappears around a corner, suggesting the promise of a future glimpse the sea and a coastal panorama, the sort of Sligo landscape that Yeats loved to paint. But this is a more intimate scene, where the artist captures the atmosphere of an early morning ramble, and where the viewer can join in appreciating the essence of the Irish countryside. In later paintings of early morning, such as his 1951 The Violence of the Dawn, Yeats is more expressionist, and plays on the visual drama of clouds, stormy seas and radiant sunlight. But in this canvas from 1942, the mood is quieter and more elegiac. In his 'Homage to Jack B. Yeats', published in Les Lettres Nouvelles, 1954, the artist's friend Samuel Beckett wrote "What is incomparable in this great solitary oeuvre is its insistence upon sending us back to the darkest part of the spirit that created it and upon permitting illuminations only through that darkness." Beckett described Yeats' images as 'desperately immediate', asking rhetorically if it was possible to embellish "On this great internal reality which incorporates into a single witness dead and living spirits, nature and void, everything that will not cease and everything that will never be." Peter Murray, September 2019
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R S THOMAS limited edition (24 / 200) University of Wales Press at Gregynog - 'Laboratories of the Spirit', dated 1976, in quarter brown goatskin, gold rule, with beige cloth boards, titles in gold to spine, original grease-proof paper, outer veined cardboard box and original 1976 postmarked cardboard delivery box Condition Report: immaculate, vendor has preserved the volume in the packaging since purchase, to be viewed and handled by intending bidders only
A large collection of modern resin animal figures to include Country Artists Wolf Running in Snow, Swift Return, CA06461, Natural World Leopard, Untamed Spirit No. 02367, Natural World Lion, Wild Spirit 02351, Natural World Snow Leopard, Mountain Spirit 02369, and Running Free CA671, etc (15)
WW2 Royal Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross (D.F.C) & Distinguished Flying Medal (D.F.M) Winners Tunic Attributed to Flight Lieutenant Holliday, standard RAF officers four pocket service dress tunic with brass kings crown tunic buttons and fixed waist belt. Padded kings crown RAF pilots wings above tunic medal ribbon bars of Distinguished Flying Cross, Distinguished Flying Medal and 1939-45 star. Rank lace to the cuffs. Area of damage to one arm and expected service wear. Interior pocket having Austin Reed tailors label with inked name “HOLLIDAY F O”.The award of the Distinguished Flying Medal (D.F.M) was awarded whilst serving with No70 Squadron, the citation for the award is as follows, “As a Captain of aircraft Sergeant Holliday has shown a fine spirit and set an excellent example to the other members of his flight. During a recent period of intensive operations he continued to fly although suffering from a disability which necessitated his neck and chin being bandaged.”He earnt the Distinguished Flying Cross (D.F.C) whilst serving with No105 Squadron, the citation for the award is as follows, “Now on his second tour of operational duty, this officer has participated in many sorties against important and heavily defended German industrial targets. He has throughout shown courage and cool judgement which coupled with his outstanding skill as a pilot, have enabled him to complete many difficult missions.”
A mahogany and brass cased night and day telescope by Dolland of London, an Edwardian mahogany desk stand bearing plaque inscribed "Essex Beagles July 1907 150 yds flat first prize J. Eickhoff", brass coal scuttle, blow lamp, spirit kettle, letter rack, two handled tray, two brass sovereign scales and a modern desk calendar
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE: An excellent selection of A.Ls.S., a few Ds.S. etc., by various Governors, Prime Ministers and other officials related to the Cape Colony comprising John Cradock (1759-1839, 1st Baron Howden, British General & Politician, Governor of the Cape Colony 1811-14; A.L.S. to 'My dearest Sir Charles', thanking him for a letter of sympathy following a battle injury sustained by his son, who had been shot in the arm, also stating that Captain Ball of the Marines 'was cut in two by a cannon ball' and continuing to refer to the Duke of Wellington and Duke of Clarence recommending promotions to the King and remarking 'What is to become of this whole business? & how it will end, can any man pretend to say? There is a violent opposition in London to the whole of the concern. Sir John Jones has already left London overland - for the Mediterranean - but whether to entirely supersede Sir E. Codrington is not exactly known' , November 1827), Rufane Shaw Donkin (1772-1841, British Lieutenant General of the Napoleonic era and Acting Governor of the Cape Colony 1820-21 during which time he founded Port Elizabeth, named after his wife; A.L.S. to the Earl of Lichfield, concerning the appointment of an additional letter carrier at Berwick on a salary of £30 per annum, 1840), Benjamin D'Urban (1777-1849, British General & Colonial Administrator, Governor of the Cape Colony 1834-38 and later Commander-in-Chief, North America 1847-49; two A.Ls.S. and an A.N.S., one written to Abraham Josias Cloete in 1842 and referring to Lord Stanley and a report of the proceedings in the House of Commons ('It is clear that his Lordship has never given himself the trouble to make himself acquainted with the subject'), and another written to MacDonald in 1847 concerning a Captain Murray 'whom Lady Pembroke had wished me to have on my staff as Extra Aide de Camp', remarking that Murray had experienced an 'unfortunate indiscretion' but that Lady Pembroke has now informed him that there 'may now be no impropriety in my fulfilling her wish'), George Thomas Napier (1784-1855, British Lieutenant General who served with distinction in the Peninsular War under the Duke of Wellington, later Governor of the Cape Colony 1838-44; A.L.S. to Abraham Josias Cloete, confirming that he has written to Lord Hardinge expressing Cloete's feelings on not having received a promotion and remarking 'I did feel it my duty to state to him what my opinion was relative to your conduct & services….under my command….and most particularly when I sent you to the relief of Captn. (now Lt. Col.) Smith, at the time he was so closely besieged by the rebel boers & that you conducted the business, under difficult circumstances, to my perfect satisfaction in every respect', 1853), Harry Smith (1787-1860, British Lieutenant General of the Napoleonic Wars, Governor of the Cape Colony 1847-52. Ladysmith is named after his wife, Juana Maria de los Dolores de Leon Smith; two A.Ls.S., one written to Abraham Josias Cloete in 1835, expressing his happiness at his correspondent's proposed period of leave and thanking him for his 'uniform attention' over the last six years, and the other thanking John Ollivier for a volume of despatches in 1847), George Grey (1812-1898, British Soldier, Explorer and Colonial Administrator, Governor of the Cape Colony 1854-61; A.L.S. to the Lord Chancellor seeking his opinion 'on the composition of the commission on Capital Punishment' and adding that he must include representatives of abolition, 1864), Henry Loch (1827-1900, 1st Baron Loch, Scottish Soldier & Colonial Administrator, Governor of the Cape Colony 1889-95; A.L.S. to Lady Metcalfe on the printed stationery of Government House, Cape Town, advising her of the hotel accommodation he has arranged for her visit, 1893), Alfred Milner (1854-1925, British Statesman & Colonial Administrator, Governor of the Cape Colony 1897-1901; T.L.S. to Cranborne politely explaining that he has not been able to find a position for Captain Bailey of the Bedfordshire Militia as the number of administrative appointments is very limited 'while the mass of candidates - and well qualified candidates too - is quite enormous', August 1902), Walter Hely-Hutchinson (1849-1913, Anglo-Irish Diplomat & Colonial Administrator, Governor of the Cape Colony 1901-10; A.L.S. of condolence to Shepstone on the printed stationery of Government House, Natal, November 1896), John Gordon Sprigg (1830-1913, British Politician, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony 1878-81, 1886-90, 1896-98 & 1900-04. D.S., on the printed stationery of the Prime Minister's Office, Cape Town, 15th August 1895, being a manuscript minute relating to the submission to the Governor a regulation relative 'to the issue of medals and grant of gratuities for Meritorious service for Distinguished conduct and for Long Service and Good conduct to members of the permanent force of this colony'), William Schreiner (1857-1919, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony 1898-1900 during the Boer War; dark fountain pen ink signature and inscription on an 8vo sheet of printed stationery from the Prime Minister's office, Cape Town, 31st August 1899); Leander Starr Jameson (1853-1917, Scottish Politician, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony 1904-08, famous for his involvement in the Jameson Raid; bold fountain pen ink signature and three additional words in his hand on a printed Imperial Transport Service envelope), John X. Merriman (1841-1926, Last Prime Minister of the Cape Colony 1908-10 before the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910; four A.Ls.S. and an A.N.S., two written to the sister of the poet Roy Campbell, one with interesting content, in part, 'I must confess that I am more like a withered bat hanging to the tree, than the piercing cicada to which your flattering spirit compares me. I never heard before of the insect Parliament but "there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy". My acquaintance with the insect tribes is unfortunately a pretty extensive, and I may add a pretty expensive one; the cutworm that destroys our tobacco, the aphis that ravages our peaches & plums; the phylloxera that destroys our vines, down to the cotton moth, ants and flies of all kinds. Each calls for its special poisons and its toll of labour. You might write a long and not uninteresting poem on the whole race. Recollect old Fabre has been called 'The Homer of Insects". You may someday be named the Sappho of the same. As I am taking the liberty of suggestion might I beg you to turn your imagination on two subjects which are engaging the thought of people a good deal. The extraordinary gift of Telepathy which seems to be possessed by the Natives by which news is conveyed across trackless deserts. This is common not only to Indian people, but to the Bantu, and also the Bushman. The facts are undoubted, but how and what the gift is; no one seems to know. Of a kindred nature is the gift of presenting to common place people non existing scenes - i.e. in India the Rope Trick. The mango trick and in this country the gift of calling up pictures at the will of the operator. If ever you come across Col, Du Toit the second in command of the police get him to tell you his experiences with Matsebe's soothsayer. They were very similar to those in Rider Haggard's book "She" only not so dressed up. But if you would turn your poetic imagination on these subjects you might do a great service in getting some way with the minds of the natives….' 1921, and one written to the members of the Press Gallery on the occasion of his 80th birthday), Christopher Bird (1769-1861, Colonial Secretary of the Cape Colony 1818-24, serving under Lord Charles Somerest; A.L.S. to Abraham Josias CloeteOWING TO RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE SALEROOM THE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION FOR THIS LOT CAN NOT BE UPLOADED. PLEASE CONTACT IAA LTD FOR FURTHER DETAILS
Vintage advertising signs, circa 1925 advertising Gyro Super No.1 Racing Spirit - The Worlds Best, 11 1/2d (eleven pence halfpenny) and one shilling and halfpenny, in the form of six wooden boards, 5"6" long x 9" wide, previously on display in the Donnington Collection, originally on the site of Burnaston Garage, then known as Ashleigh Garage
A bronze sculpture titled 'Hands' by Michael Forrest, one of only three made, one belongs to the RREC and is presented as the Conservation trophy, one the artist kept and the third he gave to Rob Emberson for his part in the early days when it was not readily accepted, the sculpture in the form of a pair of hands encircling a Spirit of Ecstasy, 1993 and an accompanying photograph and description.
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