Gerard Dillon's The Moon over the Bog made £61,250. (Click on image to enlarge).
Gerard Dillon’s The Moon over the Bog made £61,250 at Bonham’s sale of British and Irish art in London on May 30. The same price was achieved by Sir Wiliam Scott’s Fish. Paul Henry’s A View of Croagh Patrick from Achill Island made £25,000. Sutton Sands by William John Leech made £8,750, Persian of the Circus by Jack Yeats made £7,500 and William Conor’s The Turf Carriers sold for £5,000. Sir Gerald Festus Kelly’s Portrait of Jane with a white shawl XXVII, depicting the artist’s wife Lilian Ryan sold for £9,030.
Sean Keating’s Portrait of Jimmy O’Dea in Costume estimated at £10,000-15,000 failed to sell, as did Dillon’s Little Boy playing at God and Dan O’Neill’s Princess for a Night. The top lot of the sale was St. Ives Rooftops by Ben Nicholson which made £283,250.