Any work by Jack B. Yeats is usually enough to spice up an art sale, and so it is with de Vere's's forthcoming art auction, where a pen and ink drawing by the artist is likely to be the top selling lot. And She Followed the Dark Eyed Gypsy O was exhibited in Dublin 1921 and it is signed and inscribed by Yeats. It is expected to make up to £9,000.

Elsewhere in the sale, Summer Flowers by Letitia Hamilton is a stunningly colourful work that was once owned by Maurice MacGonigal RHA. It is expected to make something over £2,000. James Le Jeune's pictures of children playing on beaches always sell well, and lot 28 is a nice breezy example, with lots of blue sea and candyfloss clouds. It has a top estimate of £2,200. The hot, bleached-out look of A View of the Carmine Church, Florence by Niccolo Caracciolo exudes the languor of strolling through dusty streets at midday. From the artist's family, it is estimated to fetch £2,000-£3,000.

Charles Lamb's Summers Day, West of Ireland on the other hand, glows with the intensity of colour that comes when the sun reappears after a rain shower. It carries an estimate of £2,500-£3,000. A Gerard Dillon tapestry, Hands Across the Border, should fetch £4,000-£6,000. It was probably woven in the early 1950s in Roundstone and is similar to a work entitled Gentle Breeze, which took the artist three years to complete. Viewing begins tomorrow at the National Concert Hall at noon. The sale will take place next Tuesday evening, starting at 6 p.m.