Anne Yeats (1919-2001), Three Lamps

Three lamps, colourful, against a speckled blue-black 'night-time' backdrop. A graphic 5-colour planographic lithograph which was produced in 1966, and very much 'midc-century' in its shapes and colours.

The daughter of the poet W.B.Yeats, grand-daughter of the portraitist John Butler Yeats and niece of Jack B. Yeats, Anne Yeats was born into the heart of Dublin's artistic milieu. She studied at the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin. She worked for many years in the Abbey Theatre as a set designer. In the 1940s and 1950s she travelled widely and exhibited regularly from the 1940s she worked with many Irish poets and writers as an illustrator and designer.

Her work is in the collections of many notable institutions, including The National Gallery of Ireland, the Hugh Lane  Gallery and the Trinity College collection.

24-31cm, excluding frame and mount.  Newly framed, glazed and with new backing board. Signed and numbered 38/80 bottom right. Titled bottom left.

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