Salute/Farewell to Rosses Point by Jack B Yeats (€120,000-€160,000) is a highlight at Adams evening sale of Important Irish Art on September 29. It dates to 1946 and is one of a number of works from the 1940’s, when Yeats was in his seventies, that hark back to his youth. As a boy the artist frequently travelled on the pilot boats for merchant ships headed to Sligo. The Adams sale kicks off with a 1997 watercolour by John Doherty of a lightship. There are some attractive coloured pencil drawings by Mary Swanzy, watercolours by Gerard Dillon and Andrew Nicholl and ink on paper works by Patrick Scott. An arresting self portrait by William Leech has an estimate of €20,000-€30,000. There is a similar estimate on two works by Dan O’Neill, Cold Spring Morning, Donegal and Spanish Girl.
The Pump of St. Nicholas, Antwerp was one of the first open air paintings that Walter Osborne made on the Continent and was exhibited in Dublin in 1883. It is estimated at €70,000-€100,000. Don Quixote by Sean Keating and Coloured Rain by Basil Blackshaw are each estimated at €30,000-€50,000. There is art by Tony O’Malley, Jane O’Malley, George Campbell, Nano Reid, Mainie Jellett, Norah McGuinness, Patsy Dan Rogers, Brian Bourke and Markey Robinson as well as sculpture by John Behan, Sonja Landweer and others in a well chosen evening auction of 146 lots.