Fine works by Jack B. Yeats and Paul Henry are included in Morgan O’Driscoll‘s sale Irish and International art auction at the RDS on December 7. In the wake of successful sales of Irish art in Dublin already this week there is anticipation around this sale which is headed by a 1949 Jack B. Yeats entitled Business. Estimated at 200,000-300,000 this work was once in the Jefferson Smurfit collection. Morgan O’Driscoll has just completed a viewing for this sale in London. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:
Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958) Killary Bay, Connemara (80,000-120,000). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 97,000 AT HAMMER
Business by Jack Butler Yeats (200,000-300,000). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 210,000 AT HAMMER.
John Shinnors (b.1950) White Scarecrow and Clown (12,000-16,000). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 11,000 AT HAMMER
Gwen O’Dowd – Spaces 32 (2005) (1,500-2,500). UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,500 AT HAMMER
John Noel Smith – Untitled Field Painting (2007) (6,000-9,000). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Tony O’Malley HRHA (1913-2003) Still Life on Piazza Studio (1962) (12,000-16,000). UPDATE: THIS WAS BID TO 11,000 AND THEN PASSED