THREE very different paintings are expected to attract keen interest at Adams of Blackrock's fine art sale next Monday evening, October 14th.
Emile Bernard's Terrassier's Egyptiens (Egyptian navvies) is a big, powerful painting in earthy tones of ochre and blue, and despite its century of life it is in good condition, its colours still strong and vibrant. It is estimated to fetch £15,000-£18,000.
Paul Henry is represented by one of his favourite images, cottages by a lake in Connemara, with mountains looming in the background. This one is expected to make £12,000-£16,000.
A striking portrait of a lady, Dorothy Wilde, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, shows a strong character dressed in black with a luxurious red muff. Its top estimate is £4,000. The 100 lots include a collection of religious pictures and portraits, and the best of these is an Evie Hone cartoon of St Elizabeth of Hungary for a stained glass window in Fahan Church, Donegal (£2,000-£3,900).
The remainder of the sale offers plenty of opportunity for young collectors to buy at reasonable prices: an early Louis Le Brocquy pen and ink, called A Fearful World, expresses the artist's fears of a world dominated by the atomic bomb. Signed and dated 1948 there is a letter from Le Brocquy on the reverse describing how he came to draw it. Its top estimate is £1,500.
There is also a typically pretty James Le Jeune work of children paddling in the sea near Dalkey (£2,000-£3,000); a striking coastal scene by Charles Lamb, estimated at £800-£1,200; and a series of three drawings of a girl by George Russell, AE, (total estimate of up to £800).
