An online auction of 292 lots of Irish art is running at Morgan O’Driscoll. It continues until January 19. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:
UPDATE: A TOTAL OF 93% OF LOTS SOLD
An online auction of 292 lots of Irish art is running at Morgan O’Driscoll. It continues until January 19. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:
UPDATE: A TOTAL OF 93% OF LOTS SOLD
FINE English furniture will be feature at the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan as top English dealers including Apter-Fredericks, Hyde Park Antiques and Thomas Coulborn and Sons get packed and ready for New York. The 61st edition of America’s most prestigious antiques show will run from January 23 to February 1. Exceptional pieces from antiquity to the 1960’s will be showcased by 73 renowned experts in American, English, European and Asian fine and decorative arts. English furniture includes a c1630 Turner’s armchair at Thomas Coulborn, a pair of commodes by Mayhew and Ince at Apter-Fredericks and a c1790 satinwood and marquetry secretaire at Hyde Park Antiques Here is a small selection from the show.
(See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for January 6 and January 22, 2015).
Henri Matisse’s Odalisque au fauteuil noir will be a highlight at Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art evening sale in London on February 3. Dated 1942 the portrait depicts Princess Nézy-Hamidé Chawkat, the great granddaughter of the last Sultan of Turkey. The exquisitely coloured painting is one of the finest of the artist’s celebrated ‘Odalisque’ paintings to come to the market and is estimated at £9-12 million. It will be shown at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong from January 9-12.
The Princess was spotted in the street by Matisse in 1940. He was drawn to her dark, striking looks. After a formal request permission was granted by the Princesses grandmother for her to sit for the artist, accompanied by a chaperone. Over the course of almost two years she became his favourite model. The painting reflects Matisse’s interest in orientalism, which he first began to explore in the 1920’s.
An exhibition of works by designer Tord Boontje and sculptor Emma Woffenden runs at Sotheby’s New Bond Street Galleries in London from January 6-18. Originals, curated by Janice Blackburn, will showcase furniture, lighting, jewellery and textiles from the internationally acclaimed designer and sculpture and drawings by his wife Emma Woffenden.
The centrepiece of the show is Boontje’s monumental Fig Leaf wardrobe, considered a masterpiece of 21st century design. No fewer than 11 ateliers across England and France worked on the wardrobe, which celebrates craft. The doors are encrusted with 616 hand painted enamel leaves. It was exhibited at the V and A in 2009, nominated the Best Furniture Design at the Brit Insurance Design Awards and Design of the Year 2008 in the Financial Times’ top ten design pieces of the 2000’s.
“Originals” is the first retrospective exhibition dedicated to the work of Boontje, whose work can be found in leading institutions like the V and A, Tate Modern and the Design Museum in London, MoMA and the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York and the Stedelijk Museum and the Groninger Museum in The Netherlands.
THIS is January and the Turners are on display at the National Gallery of Ireland for the month. The annual festival of Turner watercolours began in 1901. The Vaughan bequest of watercolours and drawings by JMW Turner (1775-1851) was presented to the gallery in 1900.
In his will the English collector Henry Vaughan (1809-1899) stipulated that the watercolours should be exhibited every year, free of charge, for the month of January. The 31 works cover all periods of the artists career, including topographical scenes and expressive images from later European tours. In 2015 the watercolours are being shown in their original frames to January 31.