Irish art at December sales offer rich pickings for collectors

Paintings by Lavery, Yeats, Henry and Keating will lead sales at Whyte's on December 4 and James Adam on December 6

Untitled by Sean Scully at Morgan O'Driscoll.

Art by John Lavery, Jack Butler Yeats, Paul Henry, and Sean Keating will lead upcoming sales of Irish art at Whyte’s on December 4 and James Adam on December 6. Lavery’s Switzerland (Hazel and Alice) at Whyte’s is estimated at €180,000-€220,000. The top lot at Adam’s is The Captain by Yeats, estimated at €100,000-€150,000.

Given the Lavery exhibition now on at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin the auction of a major work by this artist is timely.