Auction Highlights from Adam's Auctioneers' Important Irish Art Sale

First up in our featured lots from Adam's Auctioneers latest Important Irish Art sale is this awe-inspiring oil on canvas capture of the high mountain ranges of Connemara Hills. The strength of the image, the barely roughed in cottages perched on a small foreground promontory contrasting dramatically with the deep blue mass of the mountains which dominate the greater portion of the picture plane, shows the lasting influence of Post-Impressionism on Henry’s compositional technique. This excellent work exceeded it's minimum estimate of €40,000 for a final hammer price of €92,000.

Our second featured lot in our auction highlights of Adam's Auctioneers Important Irish Art sale is this marvellous abstract composition from Cubism pioneer Evie Hone. This painting is a work of some significance and part of the group of mature abstract paintings shown in Hone’s two major solo exhibitions in Dublin in May-June 1929 and May 1931 at the Society of Dublin Painters Gallery at 7 St. Stephen’s Green. This radical experiment more than doubled it's €15,000 estimate for a hammer price of €34,000.

Next up from our auction highlights of Adam's Auctioneers' Important Irish Art sale is this signed and dated, oil on canvas edition of A Flemish Belle by portrait and figure painter Richard Thomas Moynan. Trading his studies at the Royal College of Surgeons for a life in the arts, he studied under Charles Verlat at the Académie Royal des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp. This mid-career work quadrupled it's €3,000 estimate for a final hammer price of €12,000.

Our fourth featured lot in our auction highlights of Adam's Auctioneers' Important Irish Art sale is this signed, inscribed and dated 1997 oil on panel Autodidact by John Boyd. While the spirit of James Joyce is evoked in this work, Autodidact is closer to Beckett in its existential bleakness and sense of isolation.

Our fifth and final featured lot from Adam's Auctioneers Important Irish Art sale is this charming, characterful Le Touquet Café Scene by Irish-Canadian artist James Le Jeune. Signed and inscribed indistinctly, this oil on canvas scene showcases Le Jeune's eye for perfectly capturing the world around him. Known as a painter's painter, he had the invaluable gift of being able to laugh at himself. It more than doubled it's €2,000 estimate for a hammer price of €5,500.