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Connemara Bouquet by Kenneth Webb is among the top lots at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current Off the Wall online auction which runs until March 4. It is estimated at €3,000-€5,000. This auction offers a wide selection of affordable art from artists including Norman McCaig, Margaret Egan, Cecil Maguire, Mr. Brainwash, Majella O’Neill Collins, Arthur Maderson, Maurice Wilks, Pauline Bewick, Alicia Boyle and sculptors including Oisin Kelly, Michael Foley and Ray Delaney. The catalogue is online.
Harry Clarke, Paul Henry, Sir John Lavery and Sean Scully are among the leading Irish artists heading up Morgan O’Driscoll’s online art auction which gets underway on the evening of October 24. Major art of this calibre by established artists does not come cheap and estimates for these four range from €50,000 to €150,000. Any one of them would enormously enhance a serious collection of Irish art.
In a dazzling and vivid stained glass panel Clarke delves into a scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream featuring Titania and Bottom dated 1922. In a walnut and tortoiseshell cabinet by James Hicks it recreates a strange and marvellous world composed of fragments of transformed reality. Once in the collection of Ann and Gordon Getty, which realised more than $150 million (€143 million) across ten auctions at Christie’s last year, it is estimated at €100,000-€150,000.
There is a similar estimate on Paul Henry’s atmospheric Cottages on Achill Sound which depicts three traditional thatched cottages in a path leading towards the seashore. Most of Henry’s work around Connemara and Mayo includes mountains. in this one the artist has turned away from the land and faces towards the ocean. The Beach, Evening Tangier by Sir John Lavery dates to 1920 and is estimated at €80,000-€120,000. Scully’s Barcelona dates to 1998. The estimate for this watercolour on paper is €50,000-€70,000. These are atmospheric works with their own aura. So is Three Figures by Dan O’Neill, an evocative moonlit scene with three women, their heads covered by scarves, and estimated at €25,000-€35,000. Moonlight features in Connemara by George Campbell, a nightime view, and in Full by Elizabeth Magill.
In sharp contrast is Studio Table by William Crozier, bright with the artist’s palette of colours, and Harry Kernoff’s Madonna with Faun and Doves, inspired by religious icons. Louis le Brocquy, Jack B Yeats, Evie Hone, Peter Curling, Pauline Bewick, Letitia M Hamilton, Kenneth Webb, John Shinnors and Colin Middleton are among the artists featured in an online catalogue that is brimful of interest. The sale is on view at the RDS today, tomorrow and Monday and gets underway online at 6.30 pm next Tuesday.
The Irish art sale season continues on its merry winter way on November 28 and 29. The sale of Important Irish Art at Whyte’s in Dublin next Monday evening offers significant works in contrasting styles by artists as diverse as Paul Henry and James Brenan to Louis le Brocquy and William Scott. A classical Henry landscape, Turf Stacks in the West, is estimated at €120,000-€180,000, as is an image of W B Yeats by Louis le Brocquy. There are two oils on canvas dated 2004 by Conor Harrington, the renowned Cork street artist and painter, A Thought for Lunch (€10,000-€15,000) and Lost in Space (€8,000-€12,000). The auction is on view at Molesworth St., Dublin this weekend and until 4 pm on Monday.
There will be viewing in Skibbereen on November 28 and 29 for Morgan O’Driscoll’s online evening Irish art sale with 242 lots which gets underway on Tuesday. The selection offers works by Kenneth Webb, Mainie Jellett, Cecil Maguire, Norah McGuinness, Arthur Maderson, Cecil Maguire, Louis le Brocquy and many other artists.
Spring Meadow by Kenneth Webb comes up at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current off the wall online sale of Irish art. The small oil on canvas is estimated at €1,200-€1,800. The catalogue for this sale of 450 lots is online. The auction runs to the evening of December 6.
The catalogue for the current Irish art online sale by Morgan O’Driscoll is now live. Bidding ends on September 23 between 6.30 and 9.30 pm.
Sweetpea in Bloom by Kenneth Webb UPDATE: THIS MADE 8,500 AT HAMMER
Carina Scott, MOONLIGHT OFF ROUNDSTONE UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,400 AT HAMMER
Virgo and letter by Patrick Hennessy UPDATE:THIS MADE 11,250 AT HAMMER
An Edwardian rocking horse UPDATE; THIS WAS UNSOLD
The Winners by Dan O’Neill (1920-1974) UPDATE: THIS MADE 9,000 AT HAMMER
The Winners, an oil on board by Dan O’Neill at Morgan O’Driscoll’s online auction of Irish art on May 21 last came up at The Irish Sale at Sotheby’s in London in 2002. It sold for 8,000 euro then. This time around it is estimated at 8,000-12,000.
Highlights of the sale include works by James Humbert Craig, Henry Robertson Craig, John Butler Yeats, Kenneth Webb, Basil Blackshaw and Carey Clarke. There are 224 lots including sculpture and each can be viewed life-size in your own setting via the AR Marker with the Morgan O’Driscoll app. The catalogue for the sale is online. Here is a small selection:
Kenneth Webb RWA FRSA RUA (b.1927)
July Profusion UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,700 AT HAMMER
James S. Brohan (b.1952)
The Horse Fair UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,200 AT HAMMER
Foxgloves by William Crozier (1930-2011) UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,200 AT HAMMER
Kenneth Webb, Sweetpea
Carina Scott, First Light,
Vintage Carriage Pram
Sir Peter Blake RA, Babe Rainbow, screenprint on metal
Mark O’Neill, From the Flower Market
Nassau Blair Browne, Cattle in the Meadow
Artists like Kenneth Webb, Tony O’Malley, John Shinnors, Basil Blackshaw, James Humbert Craig and Harry Kernoff all feature in Morgan O’Driscoll’s current online Irish art auction. Bidding is open until the evening of Monday September 18. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:
Harry Aaron Kernoff RHA (1900-1974) Connemara Cailin (3,000-5,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,600 AT HAMMER
Basil Blackshaw HRHA RUA (1932-2016) The Orchard (3,000-5,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,800 AT HAMMER
James S. Brohan (b.1952)
Wild Flower Meadow (4,000-6,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,600 AT HAMMER
The Crouching Venus
A painting by Kenneth Webb was the top lot at Fonsie Mealy’s summer art sale in Castlecomer this year. The Fish Market at Roundstone sold for a hammer price of 15,000. A set of four stained glass panels of saints from The Earley Studios in Dublin sold for 11,000 at hammer. A 17th century Italian School of Moses Striking the Rock attributed to Bernardo Cavilling made 10,500 at hammer and The Crouching Venus, a white marble Italian School c1800 sculpture originally at Powerscourt sold for 8,000 at hammer.
Other top hammer prices included a pair of Irish duelling pistols (8,000), a 12 bore Purdey shotgun (5,600), a stained glass panel of St. Patrick (5,500), an oval enamel plaque portrait by J. Sadler, Liverpool (5,200), two Carrara marble statues of The Blessed Virgin and The Sacred Heart (5,000) and an Irish George III period bookcase (5,000).
(See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for July 25 and July 22, 2017)
