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A painting by Jack Butler Yeats, brother of poet W.B. Yeats, has been sold for $420,000, the highest price ever paid for a work by the leading Irish impressionist. Irish millionaire businessman Michael Smurfit, speaking from his home in Monaco, confirmed Friday that he bought “The Harvest Moon” at a Dublin auction Thursday. Smurfit, who runs an international paper-packaging company, said the painting would stay in Ireland.
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