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    SOTHEBY’S IRISH SALE ON MARCH 29

    Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

    Lavery's portrait of Lady Gwendoline Churchill (click to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE £121,250

    Sotheby’s 17th annual Irish sale in London on March 29 brings together quality Irish artworks from all corners of the globe.  It features art from a range of dates and stylistic movements and focuses attention on the richness of Ireland’s longstanding artistic output.

    Paysage by Roderic O'Conor at Sotheby's. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE £337,250

    Sir John Lavery’s portrait of Lady Gwendoline Churchill (estimated at £100,000-£150,000)  has come from a private UK collection, where it has been for several generations.  It depicts the sister in law of Winston Churchill.
    Paysage by Roderic O’Conor is estimated at £120,00-£180,000.  It has re-surfaced from an American private collection and Sotheby’s say it is one of his most accomplished Fauvist landscapes to appear at auction.
    Other highlights include work by Basil Blackshaw, Colin Middleton, Sean Scully, William Scott and Louis le Brocquy.

    GOOGLE ART PROJECT ENABLES VIRTUAL TOUR

    Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
    Google’s Art Project, which is just launched, is a collaboration with 17 international museums, including the Met in New York, the Hermitage in St Petersburg, the Uffizi in Florence, and the National Gallery in London, to enable viewers take a virtual tour using “Street View” technology.
    Each institution has nominated a single piece as a “Gigapixel Artwork” which produces an electronic image containing 7 billion pixels, allowing viewers to study a work like Botticelli’s Birth of Venus or Holbein’s Ambassadors in microscopic detail.

    PORTRAIT OF BACON HEADS BONHAMS IRISH SALE

    Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
    An image of Francis Bacon (1909– 1992) the artists known for his bold, austere, graphic and emotionally raw imagery, heads Bonhams first Irish Art Sale in London on February 9.  It is the work of Bacon’s friend and fellow painter, Louis Le Brocquy, Ireland’s foremost living artist.
    The watercolour  is estimated to sell for £60,000 to £80,000.  Although he painted Bacon several times, trying to capture “the Baconness of Bacon”, this example is more representational than most.
    Speaking about his art Louis Le Brocquy says: “Contrary to a generally held view, I think that painting is not in any direct sense a means of communication or a means of self-expression. When you are painting you are trying to discover, to uncover, to reveal. I sometimes think of the activity of painting as a kind of archaeology – an archaeology of the spirit.”
    See antiquesandartireland.com post for December 22

    VALUATION DAYS AT JAMES ADAM

    Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

    Art and antique auctioneers James Adam intend to hold complimentary valuation days on the first Thursday of every month at their  premises at St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.  There will be a valuation on Thursday, Feburuary 3 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.