Beckett by le Brocquy at Sotheby's. (Click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: It made £75,650
THERE is a stellar line up at Sotheby’s Irish Sale in London on March 29. It features rare works never seen on the market before by artists like Sir John Lavery, Roderic O’Conor and Mary Swanzy. There are 13 works by Louis le Brocquy and the sale includes Basil Blackshaw, John Shinnors, William Scott, Colin Middleton and Sean Scully.
John Lavery’s portrait of Lady Gwendoline Churchill, A Lady in Brown, is at auction for the first time. It is believed the painting was probably executed in the summer of 1915. O’Conor’s Landscape, Cassis, has re-surfaced from a private American collection and features one of the smaller peaks of the limestone cliffs of Le Cap Canail.
Sunlit Landscape by Mary Swanzy is a dazzling modernist piece. It is part of a series of lyrical Provencal cubist landscapes produced following a stay at Grasse in the South of France in the winter of 1926-1927 and is estimated at £60,000-80,000.
Daniel O’Neill is represented in the sale with one of the most expressive and affecting works by the artist to ever appear at auction. On Reading Dear Theo is a portrait of Vincent van
Gogh. The composition and treatment clearly reference van Gogh’s landscapes. It is estimated at £30,000-50,000. Headlining the le Brocquy works is an image of Samuel Beckett (Opus 473), an
oil on canvas estimated at £60,000-80,000.
There is a group of four still lives by William Scott and the art auction offers a strong selection of contemporary works.
See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for February 16 and February 2.