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L.S. Lowry's Industrial Landscape: Stockport Viaduct, 1958, courtesy Christie's Images Ltd., 2012. UPDATE: THIS MADE £1,273,250.

Lowry, Lavery, Scott and Peploe are among the big names peppering Christie’s 20th century British and Irish art sales in London on May 23 and 24.  Expected to realise more than £12 million the sales will feature over 300 lots with estimates from £500 to £1.8 million.  L.S. Lowry’s Industrial Landscape:  Stockport Viaduct, 1958 is, at £1.2 to £1.8 million, the most expensively estimated lot in an auction which features Scottish Colourists, London School artists, St. Ives, Neo-Romantics, sculpture, Pop Art and Irish art.

Aïda, a Moorish Maid by Sir John Lavery, courtesy Christies Images Ltd., 2012. UPDATE: THIS MADE £181,250.

The top Irish lot is Sir John Lavery’s Aïda, a Moorish Maid, estimated at £150,000-250,000.  Works by Lavery and by William Scott dominate the Irish art section of the sale.  The most expensively estimated works are all by Lowry.  He set the two highest prices for any work in the category last year when Piccadilly Circus and The Football Match sold for £5.6 million in November and May respectively.  Scottish Colourists feature strongly with work by Samuel John Peploe R.S.A. (1871-1935), John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1961), Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell R.S.A. (1883-1937) and George Leslie Hunter (1877-1931).  The Gorbals, 1944 by Edward Burra (£500,000-800,000) depicts urban decay in the modern slums of war-time Glasgow. A key Neo-Romantic work it will be offered from The Collection of Lord Forte (1908-2007) and is estimated at £500,000-800,000. The London School is showcased with work by Frank Auerbach (b.1931), David Bomberg (1890-1957) and William Roberts, R.A. (1895-1980).  St. Ives is represented by Sir Terry Frost (1915-2003), Bryan Wynter (1915-1975), Alfred Wallis (1855-1942) and Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975).  Rolling Over Horse,1980 (£120,000-180,000) by Dame Elisabeth Frink (1930-1993) is one of a number of highly collectible sculptures. There is Pop Art by Gerald Laing (1936-2011), Joe Tilson (b.1928) and Allen Jones R.A. (b.1937).  There are fine and highly collectible works by both Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) and Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959). The Bridle Path, Cookham, 1938, by Spencer has been in the same family since it was painted.

William Scott, Orange Still Life, courtesy Christie's Images Ltd., 2012. (£100,000-150,000). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

SIR JOHN LAVERY, Boating at Remenham (£20,000-30,000), courtesy Christie's Images Ltd., 2012. UPDATE: THIS MADE £39,650

Portrait of Rose, Fourth Marchioness of Headfort by Sir William Orpen (1878-1931). UPDATE: THIS MADE £577,250.

Prime Irish works of art gathered from around the world will be on view in Dublin and Belfast prior to Sotheby’s  sale of British and Irish art in London on May 10.  Sir William Orpen’s Portrait of Rose, Fourth Marchioness of Headfort (£300,000-500,000) and Portrait of Geoffrey, Fourth Marquis of Headfort (£60,000-80,000) are being presented for sale together.  The sitters, Geoffrey Thomas Taylour and Rose Boote, married in the face of disrepute and disgrace. It was a love that endured until Geoffrey’s death in 1943. Rose commissioned the portraits. They were exhibited at the 147th summer exhibition of 1915, by which time Orpen was unquestionably the leading portrait painter of his generation in the Royal Academy in London.

Augustus John (1878-1961), Portrait of W.B. Yeats. (Click to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS MADE £51,650

There are two landscapes by James Arthur O’Connor (1792-1841). A View of Fin Lough and Delphi Lodge (£30,000-50,000) and A Mountain Road in Mayo (£15,000-25,000) were commissioned by the 2nd Marquess of Sligo.  A Connaught Fishing Village (£120,000-180,000) is the most expensively estimated of four Paul Henry (1876-1958) works in the auction.  All are classical western landscapes. Among the Twelve Pins, Connemara is estimated at £100,000-150,000, The Edge is estimated at £80,000-120,000 and Turf Stacks in the West has an estimate of £60,000-80,000.  A still life by Roderic O’Conor  (1860-1940) is estimated at £50,000-80,000 and a reclining nude by the same artist has an estimate of £40,000-60,000. A portrait of W.B. Yeats by Augustus John (1878-1961) is estimated at £30,000-50,000.  May Day by F.E. McWilliam (1909-1992), one of his most striking Bean sculptures, is estimated at £70,000-100,000.  A group of Northern Irish works includes Summer by Daniel O’Neill (1920-1974) estimated at £60,000-80,000 and Manna by Colin Middleton  (1910-1983), estimated at £30,000-50,000.

Irish paintings and sculpture from the sale will be on view at Sotheby’s, 16 Molesworth St., Dublin on April 24 and 25 and at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast on April 27 and 28. (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for January 16, 2012).

James Arthur O'Connor (1792-1841) - View of Fin Lough and Delphi Lodge. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS MADE £36,050.

May Day by F.E. McWilliam (1909-1992). (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

Dame Elisabeth Frink, Walking Man, bronze, 1986, est. £150,000-250,000.

Peter Randall-Page, Green Fuse, granite, 2008, est. £60,000-80,000.

A total of 18 monumental works from the Jerwood Sculpture Collection, exhibited in the grounds of Ragley Hall in Warwickshire since 2005, are to be offered by Sotheby’s in London on May 10 and 11.  Included are works by Antony Gormley, Dame Elisabeth Frink and Peter Randall-Page, as well as three winners of the Jerwood Sculpture Prize – Judith Dean, Benedict Carpenter and Gereon Krebber.  The collection comes to the market with a combined estimate of £650,000 – £1,000,000.

Dame  Elisabeth Frink’s Walking Man was the first sculpture to enter the Jerwood Collection in 1999. It belongs to a series of male nudes conceived in the mid-1980’s, all originally purchased by WH Smith Plc. for its headquarters in Swindon. It is estimated at  £150,000-250,000.  Peter Randall-Page’s monumental Cornish granite carving, Green Fuse was commissioned in 2007.  The title The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower, is taken from a 1934 poem by Dylan Thomas. The work draws on Indian temple sculpture and is estimated at £60,000-80,000.

Alan Grieve, Chairman of the Jerwood Foundation commented: “We assembled the Jerwood Sculpture Collection over the last 12 years with the intention of offering an insight into the development of the medium in Britain. The sculptures offered for sale will include some important works from the generation who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as a dynamic group of young sculptors working today. The works are being sold on behalf of the Jerwood Foundation to further its dedicated support of the visual and performing arts.”