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A set of 10 screenprints of Andy Warhol’s Endangered Species highlight Sotheby’s sale of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary prints in London on March 19.  Complete sets of Warhol prints are rare to the market, so this one is estimated at £250,000-350,000.  The Endangered Species project happened after a conversation between Warhol and Frayda and Ronald Feldman, his New York art dealers, about beach   erosion. His interest and curiosity in animals made him keen to take on the project proposed by the Feldmans. The vibrantly coloured screenprints, produced in 1983, were described as ‘animals in make-up’ by Warhol. They are all portrayed majestically yet betray a poignant resignation to their fate. (Click on image to enlarge it).  UPDATE: THE SET MADE £386,500.

Andy Warhol – Endangered Species, Siberian tiger.

Andy Warhol – Endangered Species, African elephant.

Little Irish Girl by Robert Henri (1865-1929) is estimated at $70,000-100,000. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $197,000

An early 20th century painting of an Irish girl by influential artist Robert Henri (1865-1929) is among the highlights at Sotheby’s sale of American paintings, drawings and sculpture in New York on April 11. One of the organisers of the Armoury Show in 1913, Henri, who married Irish born Margaret Organ in 1908, came to Achill Island in 1913. He rented Corrymore House near Dooagh and became a regular visitor, painting the children of Dooagh every spring and summer. He finally purchased Corrymore House in 1924.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio he studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. After returning to Philadelphia in 1891 he taught at the Women’s School of Design. He believed that the work of an artist should be a social force stirring the world and became leader of the movement that became known as the Ash Can School. At the New York School of Art his students included Joseph Stella, Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, George Bellows, Norman Raeben, Louis D. Fancher, and Stuart Davis. From 1915 to 1927 he was an influential teacher at the Art Students League of New York. His ideas on art were collected by former pupil Margery Ryerson and published as The Art Spirit (Philadelphia, 1923), a book which exerted a strong influence on artists on both sides of the Atlantic.

FROM Roderic O’Conor and Paul Henry to Patrick Collins and Louis le Brocquy the sale of Irish and British art by Whyte’s at the RDS on March 4 encompasses a broad range.  This is a sale which caters for most tastes.  The cataloge is on-line. Here is a small selection (you can click on any image to enlarge).

Constance Gore-Booth, Countess Markievicz (1868-1927) Glendalough, Co. Wicklow 1895 (1,500-2,000).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,800

Paula Rego DBE (b.1935) Come to Me 2001/2. An image of Jane Eyre based on Rego’s lithograph’s of the Brontë Sisters reproduced as a stamp by the Royal Mail in 2005. Lithograph 14/35. (600-800).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,600

Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) Image of Bono (Blue) 2003. Silkscreen print 39/75. (2,000-3,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,500

William Clarke (1803-1883) Topsail ketch on the Clyde sailing past the Clooch Lighthouse, Scotland 1865 (3,000-4,000).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,700

Thomas Hovenden (1840-1895) Study of a young woman seen in three quarter profile from behind. (1,000-1,500). UPDATE: THIS MADE 950

James Humbert Craig RHA RUA (1877-1944) The Tops of Glendun, Co. Antrim (5,000-7,000).  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

Aloysius C. O’Kelly (1853-1936) English peasant chopping swedes c1887-88. (6,000-8,000). This image graces the cover the catalogue.  UPDATE: THIS MADE 10,500

Roderic O’Conor (1860-1940) Chrysanthemums, 1896 (20,000-30,000).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 19,000

Evie Hone HRHA (1894-1955) Design for the Andrew Jameson Window at St. Marty’s Church of Ireland, Howth. (800-1,200).  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

Markey Robinson (1918-1999) Shawlie and Sailboats by the Shore (3,500-4,500).  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD