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Antiques and Collecting: Finding a touch of magic in the Irish painting.
From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20001007
Author:Edmonds, Richard
When we think of Irish painters the first name that springs to mind is Jack B Yeats, whose work has been commanding astronomical prices in the salerooms over the last three or four years.
Like all painters of Irish life Jack Yeats spent years in the 1920s travelling the Irish roads looking for inspiration among the tinkers, peasants and circus folk with whom he had a profound sympathy. There is an obvious connection here with the Irish writer J M Synge, author of The Playboy of the Western World .
Jack Yeats's The Circus Chariot - a watercolour ...
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