Oil’s well that ends well

Oil paintings by Yeats, Henry and Dillon, all of them with a distinctively rural theme, are the main attractions at the latest Adam’s sale

Fighting Tinkers by Gerard Dillon (€30,000-€50,000)

There are few mood-altering combinations as potent as oil paint on canvas. A painting can enervate, inspire, amuse, render one dumbstruck and, on occasion, set us diving headlong into a Pandora’s box of imponderables. Such is the case of the headline lot at Adam’s next week.

Jack B Yeats’s ...