When paintbrushes meet politics

Themes of trouble and turbulence dominate Adam’s latest sale of Irish art

Artist’s Studio by Gerard Dillon

Portraits and politics are major themes at Adam’s this week. Headline lots with a chilling relevance in today’s troubled world start with FE McWilliams’s eloquent documentation in bronze of events during the Troubles: Woman of Belfast 10, Woman in a Bomb Blast, 1972, and (from his 1975 Banner Series ...