An early painting by Irish painter Jack B Yeats has gone on public display for the first time.
The artist's depiction of a lone figure standing at the ropes of a boxing ring in The Last Corinthianwas rediscovered 60 years after the artist sold it to a private collector.
The 1910 oil painting is part of a showcase of artwork on view in Dublin's Merrion Hotel ahead of a major auction at Christie's of London on May 10th.
"It's really just an opportunity for people to come and see some of these fabulous paintings which they might not otherwise get the chance to do," said Christie's Irish art international director, Bernard Williams.
Painted shortly after Yeats began working with oils, The Last Corinthianis expected to fetch around €100,000 in the Christie's Irish sale.
The painting was originally sold by Yeats to John Whelan Dulanty - Ireland's first ambassador to London - in 1942, and has been in the family's possession ever since.
Two of the most expensive paintings on view at the €15 million exhibition are a Roderic O'Connor still life, expected to make in the region of €880,000, while an unrecorded John Lavery dating back to the 1880s is thought likely to fetch up to €370,000.
The exhibition in the Merrion Hotel opens to the public today and will close tomorrow.