Clairvoyant Search for Will
"Clairvoyant Search for Will"
1915
When Dublin Corporation failed to meet the terms of the gift of his collection of modern art, Hugh Lane angrily transferred the artworks to the National Gallery in London instead. The Gallery declined to exhibit them immediately and also let it be known they thought many (including Renoir's Les Parapluies) were inferior work. Just before his departure for America, Lane consequently added a codicil to his will, bequeathing the pictures again to Dublin, but he left the codicil unsigned. Yeats and Gregory believed a later will existed, and Yeats attended several seances (the skeptical Gregory attended just one) hoping a clairvoyant might locate it. No additional will was found. The unsigned codicil was deemed not legal, and the paintings controversially remained in London.
: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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