Six Yeats paintings in London auction

SIX paintings by Jack B. Yeats will be auctioned in London next Thursday in a sale of modern British and Irish art at Christie's. Of the six, two are expected to make up to £150,000 each. Dublin, Number One Ferry - Dinner Hour, which features four people on a ferry on the Liffey and was painted in 1927, has come on the market for the first time since 1969. The Sisters, a study of the Bronte sisters painted in 1944, has been exhibited several times in the past 50 years. It shows the sisters standing at a window with a view of moorland in the distance.

Three highly colourful pictures, The Man in the Attic, The Corinthians, they Come and Houses on the Bridge Road, all painted in the mid to late 1940s, have estimates from £40,000 to £80,000. The sixth painting, The Lake above the Sea, depicting Coole Lake in Galway and which the Victor Waddington Gallery sold to Letitia Hamilton in 1943, has an estimate of £20,000-£30,000.