Picture of Yeats' Fair in Mayo "became the most expensive piece of art sold at auction in Ireland

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Fair Mayo
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work of Irish artist Jack Yeats' Fair at the Mayo" last week was bought at auction in Dublin on an anonymous buyer call for one million euros. This is the highest score in the history of the Irish auction houses and an absolute record price for the works of Jack Butler Yeats - one of the major Irish artists of the XX century, the brother of Nobel laureate, the poet WB Yeats. In the twenties of last century "Fair in Mayo" decorate an office Eamon de Valera (Eamon de Valera), the future third president of the Republic of Ireland.

work, depicting a busy street in Irish town of Mayo Fair Day, established in Yates expressionist period of his work. According to the BBC, until the recent auction of painting for 67 years belonged to the Irish family Reyhill (Reihill). Most likely, after the sale of the picture will also remain in Ireland.

At the auction of Irish art of the local auction house Adam's «Fair Mayo" appeared with an estimate of 500-800 thousand euros. However, James O'Heloran (James O'Halloran), CEO of auction house Adam's, expecting that the work of Yeats cause an increased interest in buyers. "This picture - one of the largest and most valuable works of Yeats at auction in recent years - said O'Heloran. - She never put up for auction, but participated in a number of very prestigious exhibitions, including the exhibition" Images of Yeats ", held in 1990 in Monte Carlo, and in the exhibition" Contemporaries "at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA )».

Another painting by Yeats," Dawn ", on the the same auction went under the hammer for a much more modest sum - 80 thousand euro.

previous auction record of Jack Yeats - 820 thousand euros for so many, in 2005 paid for the painting "Bathing thrush in the island of Tyre -na-Nog »Northern Ireland businessman Barney Eastwood (Barney Eastwood), a famous collector of Impressionist works.

Prepared Estrova Maria, AI

Source: bbc.co.uk