€230,000 for abandoned Yeats paintings

TWO abandoned Jack Butler Yeats’ paintings have fetched €230,000 at auction in Canada.

€230,000 for abandoned Yeats paintings

The works, The Boat Builder and The Mail Car, Early Morning were discovered nearly 20 years ago in a farm outhouse near Toronto.

They were originally bought 80 years ago on a visit to Ireland by an academic Alfred Tennyson DeLury.

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