Over €2 million spent at sale of Irish art at James Adam

The auction included paintings from the collections of Vincent and Jacqueline O’Brien and also from the Hon Francis D Murnaghan

'Connemara landscape with turf stack' by Paul Henry made €75,000 at hammer over a top estimate of €60,000.

Over €2,000,000 was spent at the James Adam Important Irish Art sale last night. This sale included paintings from the collections of Vincent and Jacqueline O’Brien and also from the Hon. Francis D. Murnaghan.

Top lots included a hammer price of €400,000 each for Horsemen and He Reads a Book by Jack B. Yeats. The other two Yeats works,  The Window with a View of the Town and Willie Reilly, sold for €250,000 and €100,000 respectively, while Orpen’s Old John’s Cottage sold for €250,000.