Yeats’ paintings owned by Allen family fetch €1.38m at auction

THREE paintings by Irish artist Jack B Yeats, owned by the Allen family of Ballymaloe House in Cork, sold for €1.38 million under the hammer in Dublin yesterday.

One of the works, A Blackbird Bathing in Tír na nÓg, sold for €820,000, establishing a new auction record for a Yeats.

The paintings, which were on loan to the University of Limerick for the past seven years, date from the 1930s and 1940s, a prolific period in the artist’s life.