Forthcoming Auctions

Yeats oil from 1947 for £80,000-£120,000

A number of Irish pictures feature in next Tuesday's auction of modern paintings, drawings and sculpture at the Phillips rooms in London. The highest estimate, and expectations, is for a Jack Yeats oil of 1947, painted shortly after the death of the artist's wife.

Called The Sky Lovers, it is very typical of Yeats's late style in its heavy impasto and dark palette, relieved by flashes of primary colour; the picture is expected to sell for £80,000-£120,000. Two other strong Irish oils ought to do well: a portrait of Nellie O'Brien, sister of artist Dermod O'Brien, by Walter Osborne, which originally belonged to the sitter and her family (£40,000-£60,000), and a 1922/23 self-portrait by William Conor in which he shows himself playing a melodeon (£40,000-£50,000). There are three works by Daniel O'Neill in this sale, and two each by Colin Middleton and Evie Hone. Of the O'Neill's, the most unusual is called The Oriental (£3,000-£5,000), and it shows a Chinese girl, while Hone's self-explanatory Woodland Study, an oil on panel, carries an estimate of £1,000-£1,500. Also on offer at Phillips is a canvas by John Luke dating from the late 1920s and showing The Good Samaritan, a rather unusual theme for this artist; its estimate is £20,000-£30,000.

Pub fittings, architectural items in Dublin auction

Town & Country Auctioneers will be holding a sale on the company's premises tomorrow afternoon, offering pub fittings and architectural material. Lots here include an oak panelled room, which is expected to fetch £4,000-£5,000, and, rather more unusually, a Wayne American petrol pump, which carries an estimate of £800-£1,200.

A Victorian pitch-pine altar has an estimate of £600-£800, as does a pair of Victorian church doors, and a Victorian gilded bar, which is approximately 20 feet long, should make £1,200-£1,500.

Mahogany canopy bed for up to £1,200

R.J. Keighery of Waterford will be disposing of 700 lots next Monday afternoon, including an inlaid bow-front display cabinet and a three-pod dining table, both sharing the same estimate of £1,500-£2,000. A baby grand piano in the same sale is expected to make £1,400-£1,800 and a mahogany canopy bed has an estimate of £1,000-£1,200.

Old money, cameras and radios in Meath sale

What Meath auctioneers Mullen Bros describe as a "speciality auction" is being held next Tuesday evening when lots will include advertising mirrors and pictures, old bank notes, cameras and radios, gun money and porcelain parlour mantle clocks. The sale begins at 6.30 p.m.