Early results with hammer prices
from the three day sale at Sheppards in Durrow on May 10, 11 and 12.
See antiquesandartireland.com posts for May 1 and April 28.
Early results with hammer prices
from the three day sale at Sheppards in Durrow on May 10, 11 and 12.
See antiquesandartireland.com posts for May 1 and April 28.
FOUR photo booth images of Andy Warhol in blue
made a record $38.4 million over a high estimate of $30 million at Christie’s post-war and contemporary sale in New York on May 11.
The sale total of $301,683,000 was the biggest tally for a New York evening contemporary sale since May 2008. No less than 62 of the 65 lots on offer found buyers. There were records for Cy Twombly and Richard Diebenkorn while a Cindy Sherman at $3.9 million fetched the highest price ever for a photograph at auction.
Andy Warhol’s Sixteen Jackies made $20,242,500 at Sotheby’s contemporary art sale in New York on May 10. The auction brought in $128.1 million and 47 of the 58 lots were sold.
SOME results from the Morgan O’Driscoll Irish art auction in Cork on May 9.
The sale was about 68 per cent sold.
See antiquesandartireland.com post for April 30.
(Click on any image to enlarge).
There is a wide variety of lots on offer at Hegarty’s sale in Bandon on Sunday, May 8 at 4 p.m. This 350 lot sale features antique furniture, porcelain, glass, jewellery, silver and household effects.
This pen and ink and oil on canvas image of Castletown House, Celbridge, Co. Kildare – Ireland’s finest Palladian mansion built in 1722 – is by the English artist John Piper (1903-1992).
He was an official artist during World War II and collaborated with many people, including poet John Betjeman on the Shell Guides.
John Piper designed the stained glass windows for the new Coventry Cathedral and created tapestries for the cathedrals at Chichester and Hereford. He designed many of the premiere productions of Benjamin Britten’s operas at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Royal Opera House, La Fenice and the Aldeburgh Festival.
This image of Castletown House comes up at Sotheby’s sale of 20th century British art in London on May 25. It is estimated at £20,000-£30,000.