Coloured Rain by Basil Blackshaw made a hammer price of 96,000 over a top estimate of 50,000 at the James Adam sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin on September 29. The highlight of the auction was Salute/Farewell to Rosses Point by Jack B Yeats which made 140,000 at hammer against an estimate of 120,000-160,000. Connemara Cottages by Paul Henry was withdrawn from the sale.