An allegorical study from 1917, it depicts Harry Clarke set against the ruins of the ancient churches of Inis Oirr. In its otherworldly intensity it is certainly one of the most striking. However, the most important painting to come under the hammer at Whyte's may well be Sean Keating's Thinking Out Gobnet (Lot 26, €50,000-€70,000). There's also an early Yeats, the glowing golden 1897 watercolour A Long Way To Go: Races in Devonshire (Lot 18, €8,000-€12,000), as well as one of the saintly figures he designed in 1903 for a sodality banner for Loughrea Cathedral, Co Galway (Lot 19, St Alphonsus €6,000-€8,000). With its 168 lots the sale contains works to appeal to all tastes, from classic Irish rural scenes and early topographical views of Dublin to abstract compositions, avant-garde landscapes – and an eye-catching bronze tomato.Īs so often with Irish art sales these days, the most expensive painting in the auction is Jack B Yeats's Pilot, Sligo River 1927 (Lot 15, €200,000-€300,000), a dramatic portrait of a bearded figure in peaked cap and double-breasted jacket standing tall against a blustery sky and the village of Rosses' Point. A cornucopia of paintings by some of the biggest names in Irish art is on display at the RDS in Dublin this weekend ahead of Whyte’s Irish & International Art auction on Monday.
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