Affordability the key at Adam sale of important Irish art

Des O’Sullivan says a 1936 oil by Jack B Yeats, ‘Hearing The Nightingale’, is exciting featured lot.

Affordability is the key to the James Adam sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin next Wednesday. The most expensively estimated works from a catalogue of 180 lots is a 1936 oil by Jack B Yeats. Hearing the Nightingale is a London work set on Richmond Hill and it is estimated at €25,000-€35,000.

There is a good selection of work by Irish artists from Frank McKelvey, James Humbert Craig and Patrick Hennessy to Louis le Brocquy, Felim Egan and Cecil King with popular contemporaries Mark O’Neill and Arthur Maderson thrown in for good measure.