THE Whyte’s sale in Dublin on Monday, May 31 brought in over one million euro and achieved a 90 per cent sell through rate. The top lots were Paul Henry’s The Turn of the Road which made 80,000 and Tony O’Malley’s Spectral Garden, Bahamas, which made 38,000.
It was a good sale for contemporary Irish artists with works by Tony O’Malley, Gerard Dillon, John Shinnors, Hughie O’Donoghue, William Crozier, Charlie Tyrell and Patrick Scott all hotly contested.