Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) Horsemen sold for €400,000
The top four lots at the James Adam sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin last night sold after the auction for a total of €1.3 million. Horsemen and He Reads a Book by Yeats each made a hammer price of €400,000. The other two Yeats’, The Window with a View of the Town and Willie Reilly sold for €250,000 and €100,000 respectively, while Orpen’s Old John’s Cottage sold for €250,000.
Two oils by Paul Henry were sold, Connemara Landscape made €75,000 at hammer and A Bog Road in Kerry made €60,000. Leo Whelan’s Cello Player made €20,000; Louis le Brocquy’s Portrait of Federico Garcia Lorca made €50,000 and Aloysius O’Kelly’s The Christening Party made €26,000. Cathedral by Edward Delaney sold for €24,000.