Jack B Yeats painting fetches €1.4m at auction

Despite record-equaling price, Shouting fails to reach estimated price

Shouting by Jack B. Yeats painted in 1950, late in his career.

Shouting, an epic large scale work by Jack B. Yeats, made a hammer price of €1.4m at auction tonight.

The painting had been estimated at €1.5m to €2m, making it the most expensively estimated Irish artwork to come to sale in Ireland. Painted in 1950 this visionary work, painted late in his career, is considered to be one of his finest achievements.