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Thu 02 Feb 2011Jack B Yeats' deathbed sketch sells for three times its estimate

THE LAST sketch by artist Jack B Yeats, drawn while he lay dying in a Dublin nursing home, sold at auction in London yesterday for £5,760.

Roundabout Poniesfar exceeded its estimate of £1,500- £2,000 at the inaugural Irish Sale at Bonhams, the New Bond Street fine art auctioneers.