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Lot Essay
The present work captures the beauty and grace of Olivia Shakespear (born Olivia Tucker, 1863-1938), a British novelist, playwright and a patron of the arts. In 1909, she met Ezra Pound who later married her daughter, Dorothy Shakespear. Through Olivia Shakespear Pound was introduced to W.B. Yeats.
After first meeting Shakespear in 1894, Yeats described her as having 'a perfectly Greek regularity, though her skin was a little darker than a Greek’s would have been and her hair was very dark. She was exquisitely dressed … and had the same sensitive look of distinction I had admired in Eva Gore-Booth' (D. Donoghue (ed.), W.B. Yeats: Memoirs, London, 1974, p. 72).
After first meeting Shakespear in 1894, Yeats described her as having 'a perfectly Greek regularity, though her skin was a little darker than a Greek’s would have been and her hair was very dark. She was exquisitely dressed … and had the same sensitive look of distinction I had admired in Eva Gore-Booth' (D. Donoghue (ed.), W.B. Yeats: Memoirs, London, 1974, p. 72).