 Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw is within a listed mansion house |
An original oil painting by Kyffin Williams and a William Selwyn watercolour are being auctioned to raise money for an art gallery. They are just two of the 105 lots on offer at Oriel Plas Glyn-Y-Weddw in Llanbedrog, north Wales, on Sunday.
The cash is needed for the maintenance and upkeep of the gallery, which is housed in a Grade Two listed mansion.
Other lots include holiday cottage lets, jet flights to Ireland and a meal for eight cooked by a top chef.
Helen Williams-Ellis, from the gallery, said it was difficult to say how much money would be raised.
 This original Kyffin Williams painting has a reserve price of �25,000 |
"I am hoping for �40-50,000 and that will go some way toward to the upkeep and costs of the gallery," she said.
"We need to raise substantial cash, and have put a lot of effort to make this a substantial do.
"We have a real cross-section of things - an enormous number of artists have been incredibly generous.
"We are expecting people to bid for lots by phone - we know someone will be bidding on a mobile from Austria."
She said that the original Kyffin Williams oil painting had a reserve price of �25,000, and they were expecting hopeful buyers to travel from as far afield as London for the auction.
Also up for auction are a sculpture by Rosemary Rempe, an original Kyffin Williams watercolour, tea in the House of Commons with Lembit Opik and Si�n Lloyd, lunch for two in the House of Lords with the Welsh assembly presiding officer Dafydd Elis-Thomas and tickets for the Wales-New Zealand rugby clash in November.