Yeats painting bought for £250 could fetch €800,000 at auction

"A PAINTING of small-town life in Co Mayo that inspired Éamon de Valera – and was sold 67 years ago for just £250 – could now be worth €800,000.

The Jack B Yeats painting, which epitomises de Valera’s idealistic vision of rural Ireland, is to be sold at auction next week. A Fair Day, Mayo so impressed the founder of Fianna Fáil when he saw it on display in Dublin in 1927 that he borrowed it for his office."  [Read Full Article]

Published by:  The Irish Times
On:  09/19/11
Website:  http://www.irishtimes.com

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