The genius of Jack B Yeats

Sotheby’s Irish art sale in London this month will feature a number of works by one of this country’s most enduring artists

The Stevedore by Jack B Yeats (£120,000-£180,000)

Think of the Pied Piper, add more than a whisper of Merlin, shades of Scheherazade, and you have the genius of Jack B Yeats. Enter a gallery where one of his paintings is on show and you’ll be drawn to it as metal is to magnet. This month, we ...