Jack Butler Yeats

Irish · 1871–1957 · Painter

Jack Butler Yeats RHA was an Irish artist. Born into a family of impoverished Anglo-Irish landholders, his father was the painter John Butler Yeats, and his brother was the… (Wikipedia)

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932auction results2000–2026years recorded87%sold (814)$1.7kSign up free to seemedian price

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SHOUTINGWhyte's · Nov 2021€1,400,000≈ $1,578,640≈ £1,184,187Sign up to see
REVERIEWhyte's · Nov 2019€1,400,000≈ $1,541,120≈ £1,197,172Sign up to see
EVENING IN SPRINGWhyte's · Nov 2019€1,300,000≈ $1,431,040≈ £1,111,660Sign up to see

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median $1.7kfree account

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Lots sold

814

of 932 offered · 2000–2026

Sell-through

87%

sold ÷ offered

Price trend

Each dot is a sold lot (price realized incl. premium where published, converted to USD at the sale-date rate; log scale). Dashed line: yearly median.

Showing 560 of 814 priced sales (evenly sampled; every year’s high and low included). Medians use all sales.

11 lot(s) catalogued with a qualifier (e.g. “attributed to”, “after”, “circle of”) are listed in the results but excluded from these statistics.

By medium

Medium	Offered	Sold	Sell-through	Average	Median	High
Paintings	102	92	90%	$177kSign up	$103kSign up	$1.6MSign up
Oil	102	92	90%	$177kSign up	$103kSign up	$1.6MSign up
Works on paper	446	383	86%	$5.5kSign up	$2.6kSign up	$51.9kSign up
Watercolor	257	236	92%	$6.4kSign up	$2.5kSign up	$51.9kSign up
Gouache	14	8	57%	$7.2kSign up	$5.9kSign up	$19.1kSign up
Drawing	169	134	79%	$4.1kSign up	$2.7kSign up	$49kSign up
Prints & multiples	223	204	91%	$854Sign up	$484Sign up	$19.3kSign up
Lithograph	23	18	78%	$1kSign up	$616Sign up	$5.7kSign up
Woodcut / linocut	14	14	100%	$1.1kSign up	$1.1kSign up	$2.9kSign up
Print (other)	170	157	92%	$575Sign up	$446Sign up	$3kSign up
Multiple	16	15	94%	$3.4kSign up	$535Sign up	$19.3kSign up
Other	161	135	84%	$16.9kSign up	$1.1kSign up	$299kSign up

Medium classes are derived from the medium text as published by each house; “Other” includes lots whose medium wasn’t stated.

By year

Year	Offered	Sold	Median
2026	27	24	$1.3kSign up
2025	56	50	$543Sign up
2024	68	66	$952Sign up
2023	82	75	$960Sign up
2022	59	56	$2.8kSign up
2021	63	61	$2kSign up
2020	75	68	$2.2kSign up
2019	80	71	$2kSign up
2018	47	36	$1.8kSign up
2017	46	32	$1.5kSign up
2016	33	21	$1.7kSign up
2015	14	14	$4.1kSign up
2014	19	15	$1.7kSign up
2013	10	7	$2.7kSign up
2012	42	32	$1.5kSign up
2011	26	23	$1.6kSign up
2010	57	54	$1.4kSign up
2009	11	10	$4.3kSign up
2008	17	13	$1.7kSign up
2007	15	11	$2.6kSign up
2006	31	31	$1.6kSign up
2005	18	18	$7.6kSign up
2004	7	6	$10kSign up
2003	5	4	$11kSign up
2002	8	7	$3.7kSign up
2001	5	3	$29.2kSign up
2000	11	6	$2.4kSign up