W. B. Yeats bust by Jean Rynhart

W. B. Yeats bust by Jean Rynhart

A fantastic heavy bronze toned bust of W. B. Yeats by the renowned Irish sculptor Jean Rynhart (b.1946 - d.2020). Rynhart was best known for creating the famous Molly Malone statue. This bust is very well observed with Yeats' features easily recognisable. Rynhart has a strong auction history with works selling at Bonhams in the mid/high hundreds

. Rynhart, a graduate in fine art from the National College of Art and Design, established the successful Rynhart Fine Art Bronze business with her husband, Derek, near Bantry, Co Cork, in the early 1980s. One of the first bronze craft studios in Ireland, the Rynhart pieces included both small figurative cold cast bronze sculptures of flower sellers, fishermen, horses, sailing boats and musical instruments as well as the bronze life-size statues, smelted in a foundry. Her busts of Oscar Wilde and Jonathan Swift are in the Dublin Writer’s Museum and a Rynhart bust of James Joyce is in New York City Library.