Michael Flatley taps global art market

Dancer Michael Flatley has been stepping his way into the history books for the past 21 years — and now he’s tapping into the global art market, having reinvented himself as a painter.

Conscious that the jig was up on his previous career, the man who made Irish dancing a world phenomenon, becoming a multi-millionaire in the process, is expected to do well in the lucrative market for Irish art in Britain.

After selling some of his art through auction houses in Ireland, Flatley is offering 25 of his paintings in London this month at prices ranging from £50,000 to £250,000 (about €68,000-€340,000).