A TANGIERS beach scene by Sir John Lavery sold for £28,000 last Monday at an auction of Irish art conducted by Thomas Adams of Blackrock. This was more than three times higher than the next best price of the sale, made by an Orpen portrait of Sir Louis Barron, which fetched £9,000.

A canvas called Sea Dreams, by George Russell, made £7,800 and James Malachy Kavanagh's Shepherding Sheep went under the hammer for £3,900. One Percy French watercolour went for £3,200 and another by the same artist for £2,200, a view of Ballycastle Moors, Co Antrim, by Maurice Wilks fetched £3,100, a Nathaniel Hone oil of a sunset in North Dublin sold for £1,800 - the same price was also made by a Daniel O'Neill Kerry landscape - and a second Daniel O'Neill oil, called Early Morning, went for £1,750.