A hatful of Hollow from Yeats at Bonham’s sale

After a long dry season, Jack B Yeats painted a series of major canvases in 1936, one of which pays tribute to a half-forgotten Irish sporting hero

Donnelly’s Hollow by Jack B Yeats (£300,000-£500,000)

An Irish masterpiece leads Bonham’s Modern British and Irish Art Sale in London next week. Jack B Yeats’s Donnelly’s Hollow, 61×91.5cm, is expected to fetch £300,000-£500,000.

Painted in 1936, it features a self-portrait of the artist and another man standing in a verdant landscape gazing at the stone obelisk erected in 1888 to commemorate the celebrated 19th-century ...