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    STUNNING DONATIONS SHOW OPENS TODAY AT HUGH LANE GALLERY IN DUBLIN

    Wednesday, April 10th, 2024

    ‘Wall Landline Moor’, Collection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Donated by the artist, 2024 © Sean Scully

    An exhibition featuring significant gifts to Dublin’s Hugh Lane Gallery opens today. Sacred trust: Donations and their Legacy features significant gifts from 1908 to 2024. Highlighting recent additions to the gallery’s collection is “Wall Landline Moor” by Sean Scully, generously donated by the artist. It joins the impressive installation of “Untitled” by Richard Gorman, a series of largescale works on handmade Koso Washi Japanese paper donated by Neil Jordan and Robert Maharry. The show brings together two previously unseen works  on paper by Alexander Calder “To Bambi” and “Lo Oscuro Invade” donated by Madeleine McGahern, a monumental painting “Victory” by Lawrence Carroll donated by Lucy Jones Carroll  and the spectacular posthumous portrait of the first female Lord Mayor of Dublin,  “Kathleen Clarke” by Brian Maguire.

    Barbara Dawson, Director of Hugh Lane Gallery said: “Since its foundation in 1908, Hugh Lane Gallery has been fortunate in receiving significant donations that add to the wealth and depth of this national collection of modern and contemporary art. In Sacred trust: Donations and their Legacy, we celebrate that legacy with a new generation of supporters whose gifts align with our strategic vision in the 21st century. These artworks will be conserved and enjoyed for generations to come”.

    ‘Kathleen Clarke’, Collection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Donated, 2023. © Brian Maguire

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    A €125,000 COMPOSITION BY EVIE HONE AT MORGAN O’DRISCOLL

    Tuesday, April 9th, 2024

    EVIE HONE (1894-1955) – COMPOSITION

    Composition by Evie Hone made a hammer price of €125,000 over a top estimate of €70,000 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish and International Art sale on April 9. It was the top lot at the sale. At the centre of Hone’s richly-coloured composition, framed within arcs and segments of yellow, green, light brown and red, is an intricately juxtaposed colour pattern that suggests a Madonna and Child.  Villas near the Sea (Cassis) by Roderic O’Conor made €70,000, Dock St., Belfast by L.S, Lowry made €46,000, Master of Money and Mirrors by Conor Harrington made €40,000, Estuary Forms by John Shinnors and Portrait of Mrs. Jessie Wertheimer by Sir William Orpen each made €32,000 at hammer, The Final Furlong by Liam O’Neill made €30,000 and Portrait of a Lady by Genieve Figgis and Union Hall, West Cork by Donald Teskey each made €29,000.

    See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for April 5, March 30 and March 29, 2024

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    ART MEETS FURNITURE AT DE VERES INTERNATIONAL DESIGN SALE

    Tuesday, April 9th, 2024

    THE NEW ORLEANS ARMCHAIR (1999), Pigmented polyester, gel coat and fiberglass

    Ron Arad first constructed the Big Easy chair in 1988. “I was thinking about an overstuffed club chair”. he said. It was among the first pieces of contemporary design added to NOMA’s decorative arts collection.” Arad later released this moulded-polyester version called NEW ORLEANS where he daubs colour inside a mould before pouring in the polyester, imprinting the chair with the element of painting, the effect combining art and sculpture to create something unique. This version comes up as lot 30 at de Veres International Art and Design Auction in Dublin on April 30. The chair is a powerful statement on volume and illusion and fully blurs the distinction between furniture and sculpture.

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    THE LEGENDARY TONY BENNETT AT JULIEN’S AUCTIONS IN NEW YORK

    Monday, April 8th, 2024

    An assemblage portrait of Tony Bennett by David Hockey.

    He might have left his heart in San Francisco but millions of people everywhere took singer Tony Bennett to their own hearts. His extraordinary life and career will be celebrated at a live and online sale by Julien’s Auctions in New York at Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame in Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 18 and 19.  With everything from a 1965 letter of appreciation from Martin Luther King (for his performance at the 1965 Selma march) to acclaimed original sketches and signed sheet music duets the sale tracks how his life mirrored American cultural, social and political history over many decades.

    There is an assemblage portrait of Bennett by David Hockney, art by Willem de Kooning and LeRoy Neiman, a sketch by Tony Bennett of Princess Grace signed by her and letters from Presidents Ford, Carter, Clinton and Bush, Martin Scorsese, Madonna, Elton John, Quincy Jones, Barbra Streisand, Al Pacino  are testament to how much he was loved.

    In 2007 he was inducted into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame for his lifelong activism and work in social justice. He won 20 Grammys, recorded more than 70 albums and sold 50 million records. He recorded with K.D. Lang, Stevie Wonder and Billy Joel and next generation superstars like Christina Aguilera, Amy Winehouse and Lady Gaga. He scored three Guinness Book of Records entries, for the oldest performer to reach No. I, the longest time between the release of a recording and the re-recording of the same single by the same artist and for being the oldest person to release a new album. Tony Bennett died aged 96 last July.

    A sketch by Tony Bennett of Princess Grace signed by Grace

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    AN IRISH VERNACULAR SALE AT JAMES ADAM IN DUBLIN

    Sunday, April 7th, 2024

    Adams will offer 254 lots headed by an oil painting of the Cutty Sark by the Tory Island artist James Dixon in their Irish Vernacular auction on April 16.  There is art including an oil on card of an Irish Farmer by the Bandon artist Charles Henry Cook, silver, country furniture including a settle bed, a set of Irish deer antlers, some Carrigaline pottery and many other items of interest to collectors. Viewing gets underway in Dublin on April 12 and the catalogue is online. UPDATE: THIS MADE 36,000 AT HAMMER

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    OLD FAMILY PROVENANCE AT LYNES AND LYNES AUCTION

    Saturday, April 6th, 2024

    An Irish Georgian tallboy originally at Brittas Castle, Thurles 

    Irish furniture, silver and glass with an old family provenance will feature at the Lynes and Lynes sale in Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork on April 20.  The auction will feature lots from the estate of Roma Peare (nee Knox) of Kinsale and Tipperary. The Tipperary connection relates to the Knox family of Brittas Castle, Thurles and Parkville, Clonmel.  The family owned Brittas from 1853. A total of 64 acres of land at Parkville changed hands last month for €2.45 million.  It was bought by Coolmore Stud.

    Lots from the estate of Roma Peare include a Georgian tallboy (€800-€1,200), a Georgian cellarette (€500-€700), a convex mirror with eagle and dolphins (€600-€800), a large collection of silverware including an Irish silver teapot with a typically florid 19th century inscription as follows: “A memento from the inhabitants of St. Peters Parish Cork until the Rev Nich.s C Dunscombe to record their high esteem of him for his indefatigable labours as a Parish Minister and a Public Benefactor being the main spring of the Temperance cause in his native city. January 30th 1840”.

    Nicholas Dunscombe was a leading Protestant clergyman and a founder member, along with Fr. Matthew, of the temperance movement in Cork.  The distinctive Dunscombe fountain, installed in the 1880’s at the bottom of Shandon St. in Cork, supplied drinking water for almost a century.  It was constructed by friends of the Rev Dunscombe as a memorial to him. Cast in Glasgow the antique structure was removed sometime before the 1980’s and is still missing.

    A convex mirror 

    Silver from the Knox estate include a pair of Cork bright cut tablespoons by J. Warner along with some fine tea sets and flatware.  The family also collected Irish glass and there are several examples in the sale. There are Knox family portraits including a large oil of Col. William Knox which is in need of restoration.

    Art by Marshal Hutson and 18th century engravings of Cork and Youghal and a large old framed map of the City of Cork and suburbs by John Rocque from 1759 will create interest.  Among the more unusual lots is a 1961 Morris Minor which has been with the family since 1961 and unused for the past 15 years.  Viewing gets underway in Carrigtwohill next Saturday (April 13).

     A timber fairground horse

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    IRISH AND INTERNATIONAL ART SALE ON VIEW IN DUBLIN

    Friday, April 5th, 2024

    LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY (1887-1976) – DOCK STREET, BELFAST (1964). UPDATE: THIS MADE 46,000 AT HAMMER

    The painter L.S. Lowry was proud of his Irish heritage and visited regularly from the mid 1950’s. He painted scenes in Dublin, Skerries, Drogheda and Belfast. This drawing of Dock St., Belfast from 1964 comes up as lot 16 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish and International art sale which runs until April 9. The estimate is €15,000-€20,000. Viewing for the sale gets underway at the Minerva Suite at the RDS today and continues until Monday. The catalogue is online.

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    THE CLASSICS SALE AT BONHAMS IN PARIS

    Thursday, April 4th, 2024

    A pair of Sèvres hard-paste Vases Hollandois or flower-pots and stands, 1775-85. UPDATE: THESE SOLD FOR 19,200

    Important furniture, Old Master paintings and drawings and Italian ceramics from Italian collections lead the Classics sale at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr in Paris on April 16. A selection of 60 works from an important Italian collection from Rome will feature  old master drawings, paintings and furniture, drawing interest from international buyers with classical tastes. Among the highlights are a pair of Sèvres hard-paste Vases Hollandois or flower-pots and stands, 1775-85. These vases were in the celebrated collection of Edouard Chappey (c1858-1907) and are estimated at €6,000-8,000. A pair of northern Italian amaranth, bois citronnier, green-stained sycamore and tulipwood marquetry commodes, Lombard or Genoese, in the taste of Giuseppe Maggiolini, late 18th century are estimated at €20,000-25,000.

    A pair of late 18th century northern Italian commodes. UPDATE; THESE SOLD FOR 48,640

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    EARLY MASTERPIECE BY TITIAN AT CHRISTIE’S IN LONDON

    Thursday, April 4th, 2024

    Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian (Pieve di Cadore circa 1485/90-1576 Venice) – Rest on the Flight into Egypt

    Titian’s early masterpiece Rest on the Flight into Egypt will headline Christie’s Old Masters Part I sale in London on July 2. Estimated at £15 million – £25 million it offers a very rare opportunity for buyers to become part of the next chapter in this fabled picture’s remarkable story. It is being offered by Lord Bath and the Longleat Trustees as part of their long term investment strategy and is one of the last religious works from the artist’s celebrated early years to remain in private hands. It has been owned by Dukes, Archdukes and Holy Roman Emperors, was looted by Napoleon’s troops in 1809 and stolen from Longleat in 1995. It was recovered seven years later in a carrier bag in greater London, minus the frame.

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    A LUMINOUS MONET AT CHRISTIE’S IN NEW YORK IN MAY

    Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024

    Claude Monet (1840-1926) – Moulin de Limetz

    Claude Monet’s Moulin de Limetz will be a highlight at Christie’s 20th  century evening sale in New York in May. The work is being offered by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and the heirs of Ethel B. Atha and proceeds will benefit future art acquisitions for the Nelson-Atkins. Moulin de Limetz is one of only two canvases by Claude Monet picturing the subject of the mill at Limetz-Villez, near Giverny. Painted in 1888, this example presents a prologue to Monet’s development into series, which would become a defining tenet of his late career. Featuring dazzling kaleidoscopic light that reflects and sparkles off the gently flowing water and shimmers off the rustling foliage, Monet’s painterly achievement radiates color with depth and complexity through layers of thick, rich and sumptuous pigment. The estimate is $18-$25 million.

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