Artist Gottfried Helnwein captures the horrors of war and the scars it leaves

Sotheby’s is an important springboard to showcase Irish art like The Disasters of War says Des O’Sullivan.

AN innocent child caught up in war is the peculiarly appropriate focus of a work by the artist Gottfried Helnwein entitled The Disasters of War which comes up at Sotheby’s Irish art sale in London on September 13.

The painting is not about Syria, it is about humankind.