Jack Butler Yeats painting sells at auction for three-times its estimate

A recently discovered painting by the internationally renowned artist Jack Butler Yeats which lay hidden in a bank vault for 52 years sold for more than triple its guide price today.

'White Jug' depicts a colourful garden scene through a window with a chair back and jug in the foreground. It is framed with a label from his private trunk and was sold for €18,000.