Connemara by Paul Henry.
ALL the top lots got away at Whyte’s successful sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin last night. The top lot of the auction was Being by Louis le Brocquy which made a hammer price of 78,000 which comes to 97,188 with fees added.
Paul Henry’s Connemara made 66,000 at hammer, Harvest Light by Tony O’Malley made a hammer of 34,000 and Island Crossing VII by Donald Teskey sold for 30,000 at hammer. The O’Malley result is pareticularly gratifying for the Irish market as works by this fine Irish artist who died in 2003 and whose work was subject to a major retrospective at The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) have not been this good for some years.
The sale brought in 800,000. Whyte’s said the improvement in demand for Irish art of quality continues.