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    • Archive for March, 2012

    ANTIQUE CORK FURNITURE AT LYNES AND LYNES

    Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

    Antique Cork furniture at the Lynes and Lynes auction at East Link Business Park, Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork on March 10 includes side tables and a linen press.  The sale of 250 lots includes a number of Cork pieces includes side tables with estimates from 400 to 1,000 and a Georgian linen press estimated at 1,000-1,500.  There is an Irish Regency library chair, an antique dining table, a George III carved marble fireplace tablet, several antique chests of drawers and a 19th century brass bound military chest.  The auction includes silver, Waterford glass, books, paintings and a pair of blue and white Chinese lidded jars. The catalogue is on-line.  Here is a small selection (click on any image to enlarge):

    A George III marble fireplace tablet at Lynes and Lynes is estimated at 1,500-2,000. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,400

    This pair of Chinese blue and white lidded jars is estimated at 300-500. UPDATE: THESE SOLD FOR 500

    A Georgian Cork side table is estimated at 600-1,000. UPDATE: THIS MADE 600

    This 19th century military chest is estimated at just 200-300. UPDATE: THIS MADE 440.

    An Irish Georgian linen press at Lynes and Lynes (1,000-1,500). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 850.

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    ORIGINAL PUGIN DRAWINGS AT IRISH ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE

    Friday, March 2nd, 2012

    An exhibition of original drawings by A.W.N. Pugin marking the bicentenary of the birth of the hugely influential Victorian architect is at the Irish Architectural Archive from March 2 to May 4.  More than anyone else he was responsible for the adoption of the Gothic Revival style which transformed the architecture of Britain and Ireland.

    Pugin is best remembered as one of the designers of the Palace of Westminster – Big Ben in particular.  His Irish buildings, including the Co. Wexford churches at Gorey, Tagoat and Barntown and the Cathedrals at Enniscorthy and Killarney, and the great seminary at Maynooth, are among his best.  Pugin visited Nuremberg in Germany in 1834 and returned in 1837.  Some sketches of interiors and decorations of Nuremberg’s churches from the second visit survive in the Irish Architectural Archive.  They are being presented in public for the first time.  The exhibition at Architectural Gallery, 45 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays to Fridays.

    Pugin. Abbaye aux Hommes, Caen, France (Irish Architectural Archive). (Click on image to enlarge).

    Pugin sketch. Chandelier. Church of St Lawrence, Nuremberg (Irish Architectural Archive). (Click on image to enlarge).

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    PLENTY TO TEMPT BARGAIN HUNTERS AT WHYTE’S

    Friday, March 2nd, 2012

    PRICES for Irish art at auction remain on the low side so there is plenty to tempt bargain hunters at Whyte’s first sale of 2012.  The catalogue for Whyte’s sale on March 12, which will take place  in Clyde Hall at the RDS, lists 271 lots.  On the Courthouse Steps by Jack B. Yeats shows a vagrant resting on the steps of Naas Courthouse in Co. Kildare, his casual appearance in marked contrast to the classical formality of the building.  The most expensively estimated lot in the sale is expected to make 90,000-120,000.

    This is Whyte’s first sale of 2012.  It contains work by a broad cross section of Irish artists, north and south.  There is as well a work by Charles Edward Perugini, an Italian born British artist who married Charles Dickens daughter Kate in 1873.  His Lovers in a Garden is estimated at 50,000-70,000.  (UPDATE – IT MADE 48,000 in a sale that was over 70 per cent sold).  The catalogue for the sale is on-line. Here is a small selection:

    Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) ON THE COURTHOUSE STEPS, 1946 (90,000-120,000) in orginal hand carved Waddington frame. Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE 88,000.

    James Humbert Craig RHA RUA (1877-1944) OWEN CARA, COUNTY DONEGAL, c.1926 (3,000-5,000). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE 6,400.

    Thomas Snagg (1746-1812) VIEW OF CLONTARF CASTLE, 1805 (5,000-7,000). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE 9,000.

    Markey Robinson (1918-1999) THE GREEN DOOR, CONNEMARA (500-700). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE 700.

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