£1.1m paid for Jack B. Yeats painting

A painting by Jack Butler Yeats fetched more than stg£1.1m at an auction in London today.

The Whistle of a Jacket, showing a horse being urged past the post, raised the highest price at Christie's sixth annual Irish sale.

The work, which was painted in 1946, was bought by a trade buyer.

Yeats died in 1957.