Jack Butler Yeats
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Jack Butler Yeats Net Worth

Jack Butler Yeats was a renowned Irish artist of the 20th century, born in London, England. He began his career as an illustrator before exploring painting in oils, and was influenced by French Impressionism and Romanticism. His subject matter ranged from Celtic mythology to landscapes and genre paintings, and he developed his own Expressionistic style with bright colours and free brushstrokes. His paintings often shared similarities with those of his friend Oscar Kokoschka, and he used them to express his sympathy towards the Irish Republican movement. He was also an author and had an interest in theatre.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Irish artist
Birth Day August 29, 1871
Birth Place London, England, British
Age 148 YEARS OLD
Died On 28 March 1957(1957-03-28) (aged 85)\nDublin, Ireland
Birth Sign Virgo

💰 Net worth

Jack Butler Yeats, an esteemed Irish artist, is expected to have a net worth ranging from $100,000 to $1 million in the year 2024. Known for his profound contributions to the art world, Yeats has left an indelible mark on the British art scene. His mastery and unique style have garnered him recognition and praise throughout his career. As the brother of renowned poet William Butler Yeats, Jack Butler Yeats' artistic talents have blossomed independently, making him a prominent figure in the realm of painting. With his notable achievements, it is no surprise that his net worth is estimated to be substantial in the coming years.

Biography/Timeline

1906

Butler's early style was that of an illustrator; he only began to work regularly in oils in 1906. His early pictures are simple lyrical depictions of landscapes and figures, predominantly from the west of Ireland—especially of his boyhood home of Sligo. Yeats's work contains elements of Romanticism.

1916

Besides painting, Yeats had a significant interest in theatre and in literature. He was a close friend of Samuel Beckett. He designed sets for the Abbey Theatre, and three of his own plays were also produced there. He wrote novels in a stream of consciousness style that Joyce acknowledged, and also many essays. His literary works include The Careless Flower, The Amaranthers (much admired by Beckett), Ah Well, A Romance in Perpetuity, And To You Also, and The Charmed Life. Yeats's paintings usually bear poetic and evocative titles. Indeed, his father recognized that Jack was a far better Painter than he, and also believed that 'some day I will be remembered as the father of a great poet, and the poet is Jack'. He was elected a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1916. He died in Dublin in 1957, and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery.

1920

From around 1920, he developed into an intensely Expressionist Artist, moving from illustration to Symbolism. He was sympathetic to the Irish Republican cause, but not politically active. However, he believed that 'a Painter must be part of the land and of the life he paints', and his own artistic development, as a Modernist and Expressionist, helped articulate a modern Dublin of the 20th century, partly by depicting specifically Irish subjects, but also by doing so in the light of universal themes such as the loneliness of the individual, and the universality of the plight of man. Samuel Beckett wrote that "Yeats is with the great of our time... because he brings light, as only the great dare to bring light, to the issueless predicament of existence." The Marxist art critic and author John Berger also paid tribute to Yeats from a very different perspective, praising the Artist as a "great painter" with a "sense of the Future, an awareness of the possibility of a world other than the one we know".

1923

Yeats was born in London, England. He was the youngest son of Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats and the brother of W. B. Yeats, who received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature. He grew up in Sligo with his maternal grandparents, before returning to his parents' home in London in 1887. Early in his career he worked as an Illustrator for magazines like the Boy's Own Paper and Judy, drew comic strips, including the Sherlock Holmes parody "Chubb-Lock Homes" for Comic Cuts, and wrote articles for Punch under the pseudonym "W. Bird". In 1894 he married Mary Cottenham, also a native of England and two years his senior, and resided in Wicklow according to the Census of Ireland, 1911.

1924

Yeats holds the distinction of being Ireland's first medalist at the Olympic Games in the wake of creation of the Irish Free State. At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Yeats' painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of the Games. In the competition records the painting is simply entitled Swimming.

2010

In November 2010, one of Yeats's works, A Horseman Enters a Town at Night, painted in 1948 and previously owned by Novelist Graham Greene, sold for nearly £350,000 at a Christie's auction in London. A smaller work, Man in a Room Thinking, painted in 1947, sold for £66,000 at the same auction. In 1999 the painting, The Wild Ones, had sold at Sotheby's in London for over £1.2m, the highest price yet paid for a Yeats painting. Adam's Auctioneers hold the Irish record for a Yeats painting which sold for €1,000,000 hammer in September 2011

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