Jack B Yeats The Man Who Painted Ireland (2021)

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Jack B Yeats The Man Who Painted Ireland 2021 Written by Colm Toibin and narrated by Pierce Brosnan, the landmark film falls on the 150th anniversary of Jacks birth as well as the War of Independence centenary, and brings together contributors from Irelands sphere of culture and academia from Historian Prof Roy Foster and Jacks biographer Hilary Pyle to comedian Dara OBriain and Toibin himself Having been in the making for over two years, the project is the vision of its Sligo born Director, Alex Verner, who makes his documentary film debut as he brilliantly combines emotive storytelling with breathtaking cinematography, featuring the wild Irish landscapes which shaped Jacks life, to create a truly cinematic Yeatsian odyssey thats long overdue As well as chronicling the evolution of the artist, with a curation of his early sketches, watercolours and most significant oils, the film also exclusively features a milestone event that shaped the Irish art landscape A landmark auction in 2019, where Irish Revolutionary Ernie OMalleys stunning private collection of Yeats paintings was put up for sale by his son, Cormac who emotionally reveals why he sold the works, which fetched record breaking sums