THE current exhibition of her work at Dublin's Green on Red Gallery should encourage interest in a lithograph by Bridget Riley being sold at the James Adam salesrooms next week. Called Nineteen Greys 1968, it carries an estimate of £200-£300 and 15 included in an auction of modern art on Monday starting at 7 p.m.

The day's highest price will certainly be made by a 14 inch high bronze head by Sir Jacob Epstein (estimate £5,000-£7,000), and while there are some other lots by foreign artists, the bulk of this sale acts as an excellent primer to Irish art during the 1970s and 1980s.

Almost every painter from this period working in Ireland is represented in the auction, some more extensively than others. There are five works by the late Cecil King, for example, including a large and very characteristically stark dark red and grey canvas from 1985 called Intrusion I (estimate £400-£600). Five works by Patrick Scott are also in the sale, including the attractive Gestural Drawing No 42, Series E from 1982 (£250-£350), as well as one of the artist's Gold Paintings (£1,200-£1,500).

Michael Ashur is represented by four works, including a very substantial triptych called Asteroid Time Sequence (£2,000-£4,000), which would best appeal to a corporate buyer.

Likely to be particularly popular is a watercolour nude by Barrie Cooke (£300- £400), a reclining nude by John Behan (£250-£350) and a pen, ink and watercolour called The Lost Domaine by Patricia Jorgensen (£150-£200). Two of the largest pieces are a diptych called Cardboard Trees by Basil Blackshaw (£3,000-£4,000) and Michael Coleman's accurately-titled Through Black (£1,000-£1,500). But there are enough small pictures in the auction - and at sufficiently low prices - to interest anyone just starting to collect Irish art.