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    DOLAN’S SUMMER IRISH ART AUCTION AT BANTRY HOUSE

    Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

    MORE than 230 lots will come under the hammer at Dolan’s summer Irish art auction in Bantry House, west Cork on August 12.  This summer art auction is carefully designed to appeal to a broad cross section of Irish taste. It will include 14 lots from the studio of artist Val Byrne to be sold without reserve. The catalogue is on-line. Here is a small selection. You can click on any image to enlarge.

    UPDATE:  The top lot was Mark O’Neill image of a farmyard dog from the front cover of the catalogue. It made 4,500.  Works by Arthur Maderson, Arthur Armstrong and Markey Robinson sold well and the auction was 85 per cent sold.

    Val Byrne – Bantry House (450-650).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 300.

    Kenneth Webb – Macroom Castle (800-1,000).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 600.

    The Illustrated London News, October 8, 1853 with illustrations of laying the foundation stone for Victorian Pier, Queenstown and the opening of the new floating docks in Limerick. (23-35).  UPDATE: THIS WAS WITHDRAWN.

    Val Byrne – Sneem Village, Kerry (450-650). UPDATE: THIS MADE 350.

    Val Byrne – Kinsale (750-900). UPDATE: THIS MADE 450.

    Maurice Wilks (1910-1984) Currachs by the shore (2,500-3,500).  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.

    ON-LINE AUCTION OF FINE WINES AT CHRISTIE’S

    Sunday, August 5th, 2012

    A collection of Chateauneuf-du-Pape features a 1995 Magnum, seven bottles of 1995 vintage and one 1999 vintage, all Chateau Beaucastel, estimate $600-800.

    Signature Cellars, Christie’s on-line only auction of fine and rare vintage wines, runs from August 6 to August 20. There are hard to source Californian wines from Harlan Estate and Screaming Eagle as well as ’82 Lafite and Labour, pre and post war vintages and magnums of champagne.

    The sale features vintage port and Bandol wines from the legendary Domaine Tempier.  A mix of collectible blue chip wines and approachably  priced selections it represents much time invested in client relationships by Christie’s North American specialists.

    This is the first in a series of planned on-line only auctions that will run in parallel to traditional sales room activity. The sale marks the next major step in e commerce activity at Christie’s.

    In the first half of 2012 growth in on-line activity at Christie’s rose by 20 per cent and there has been a 15 per cent increase in customers bidding via Christe’s Live.

    UPDATE:  The sale, which has ended, brought in  $819,715.  The top lot was a case of 1982 Chateau Lafite which made $42,350 including buyer’s premium.  There were 444 registered bidders from 29 countries and 88% of the 301 lots were sold.

    CARLO MOLLINO FURNITURE FROM CASA CATTANEO AT CHRISTIE’S

    Saturday, August 4th, 2012

    Dining suite
    Oak, chestnut and linoleum, 1953, comprising of:
    Large dining table: 79 x 160 x 64 cm.
    Small dining table: 79 x 99.5 x 89.5 cm.
    Ten dining chairs, each: 94 x 38 x 45 cm.
    Estimate: £500,000 – 700,000. (Click on image to enlarge).

    A collection of furnishings from Casa Cattaneo designed by Carlo Mollino – the most sought-after 20th century Italian designer – will feature at Christie’s sale of 20th Century Decorative Art & Design next October 23. Constructed on the foothills of the Alps, and benefitting from majestic views over Lake Maggiore, the Casa Cattaneo endures as a unique and complete surviving expression of Carlo Mollino’s distinctive architecture and interior design. Casa Cattaneo is the only private villa ever designed by Mollino and is one of very few of his structures to remain intact. Comprising 10 lots the collection is expected to realise in excess of £700,000.
    From the late 1940’s to the mid 1950’s Carlo Mollino (1905-1973) produced a spectacular portfolio of works and projects including domestic commissions, hotel interiors and commercial developments. In the ’50’s and ’60’s he turned increasingly to technical projects, designing racetracks for cars, filling stations and aircraft hangers.  He held various technical patents and designed cars. Remarkably little physical evidence for such a versatile creator survives. Only a dozen of his buildings remain, most have been altered, abandoned or changed beyond recognition and furniture was produced in limited quantities for specific commissions.  Christie’s hold the auction record for a work by Mollino.  A unique oak, glass and wood table designed for Casa Orengo in 1949 sold for $3.8 million in New York in 2005.

    Casa Cattaneo, overlooking Lake Maggiore.

    Casa Cattaneo fireplace. (Click on image to enlarge).

    THE TEN MOST EXPENSIVE PAINTINGS EVER SOLD

    Friday, August 3rd, 2012

    The Scream being sold at Sotheby’s for $119.9 million this year.

    AVID readers of this website  – and it is good to know that there are many – will know that Paul Cezanne’s painting The Card Players (1892-1892) is the most expensive painting ever sold.  It is believed to have been bought for $250 million from Greek shipping magnate George Embiricos by the Qatari Royal family.  (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for February 4, 2012).

    The top ten list of the most expensive paintings sold has seen several changes over the past couple of years.  On the current updated list The Card Players is followed by:  2 – Portrait of Adele Block-Bauer I (1907) by Gustav Klimt ($152.6 million); 3 – No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock ($140 million); 4 – Woman III (1953) by Willem de Kooning (|$137.5 million);  5 – The Scream (1895) by Edvard Munch ($119.9 million):  6 – Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (1932) by Pablo Picasso ($106.5 million);   7 – Garcon a la pipe (1905) by Pablo Picasso  ($104.2 million):  8 – Orange, Red, Yellow (1961) by Mark Rothko ($86.9 million); 9 – Portrait of Dr. Gachet (1890) by Vincent van Gogh ($82.5 million); 10 – Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir ($78.1 million).

    DOLAN’S IRISH ART SALE AT BALLYNAHINCH CASTLE

    Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

    THE glorious setting of Ballynahinch Castle in Connemara is the venue for an Irish art auction on August Bank Holiday Monday.  Galway based Dolan’s Irish art auction house will offer a substantial selection of around 250 lots of painting and sculpture.  A pencil drawing of a Connemara mare and foal by Jack B. Yeats is a feature lot, as is a bronze 1631 mortar inscribed to commemorate a marriage between two great Galway families (see post on antiquesandartireland.com for July 19, 2012).  Here is a small selection. You can click on any image to enlarge it. The catalogue is online.

    CONNEMARA MARE AND FOAL, pen, ink and watercolour by Jack B. Yeats (8,000-12,000).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 14,000

    THE CARPENTER by Cliodhna Cussen (500-700).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 475.

    MAEDBH’S ARMY by John Behan RHA (1,500-2,000).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,200.

    PEONY WHITE by Mark O’Neill (6,800-7,500).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 5,600.

    RED AS NIGHT by Norah McGuinness HRHA (4,000-5,000).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 5,500.

    WINTER FARM by Kenneth Webb RWA FRSA RUA (4,200-4,800).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 8,500.

    STILL LIIFE WITH CHARDONNAY AND STILTON by David ffrench le Roy (700-900).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 800.

    CHILDREN ON THE BEACH by James le Jeune RHA (1,400-1,800).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,900.

    EVENING, CONNEMARA by Douglas Alexander (1871 – 1945), oil on canvas (500-700).  UPDATE: THIS  MADE 475

    AN AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY ART SALE IN WEST CORK

    Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

    A summer art auction with over 160 lots takes place in Skibbereen in west Cork on August 6, Bank Holiday Monday.  Auctioneer Morgan O’Driscoll will offer a broad cross section of paintings, drawings, watercolours and prints at his premises on Ilen St., Skibbereen.  Here is a small selection. You can click on any image to enlarge it. The catalogue is on line.

    Tony O’Malley HRHA (1913-2003) ‘Kites 1974’ (800-1,200).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,200.

    Claudio Viscardi (20th/21st Century) ‘Beara Penninsula’ (500-700).  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.

    David Russell (20th/21st Century) ‘Seamus Heaney’ charcoal drawing (600-800).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 525

    Markey Robinson (1918-1999) ‘Returning Home’ (1,400-1,800).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,400.

    Gwen O’Dowd (b.1952) ‘Waterbased 43’ (500-800).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 550.

    William Crozier HRHA (1930-2011) ‘Verona Garden’ Limited Edition Print signed & numbered 48/80 Dated 2007 (1,000-1,400). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.