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The first auction at de Veres new space in Kildare St., Dublin takes place on March 24. It will feature 92 lots of Irish art.  The renovation at Kildare St. will enable de Veres to conduct more select auctions of Irish Art and Contemporary furniture. New auction areas are also being explored. A photography sale and a book auction will be held here later in the year.  The catalogue for the art auction on March 24 is online. Here is a small selection.

Yvonne Moore – Dresser (1,400-1,800).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,400 AT HAMMER

Walter Frederick Osborne – A Pensive Moment (1894) (12,000-16,000).  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

Pauline Bewick RHA – Still life with artichokes (2,000-3,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,000 AT HAMMER

Roderic O’Conor – Waves Breaking on the shore at sunset (30,000-40,000).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 40,000 AT HAMMER

Colin Middleton – Red Landscape, 1962 (15,000-20,000).  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

More than 300 paintings by modern Chinese artists estimated at more than US$23 million will come under the hammer at Sotheby’s Fine Chinese Paintings spring sale in Hong Kong on April 6.   Highlights include fresh-to-market works from the family collections of Zhang Daqian, Li Yanshan and Yuan Shikai.

Zhang Daqian’s Ancient Temple in the Mist

Wu Dacheng’s Calligraphy Couplet in Zhuanshu

The largest Southeast Asian art auction ever held at Sotheby’s promises to be a highlight of the Spring 2015 sales series in Hong Kong. More than 250 lots of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian art will come under the hammer on April 4 and 5. The sale is led by modern Indonesian and Filipino masterpieces: Hendra Gunawan’s Pandawa Dadu (The Dice Game from the Mahabharata Epic), one of only two large-format works on the Hindu epic by the artist ever to appear in the market, and Muslim Betrothal by Carlos Villaluz Francisco.

Hendra Gunawan’s Pandawa Dadu (The Dice Game from the Mahabharata Epic)

Carlos Villaluz Francisco’s Muslim Betrothal.

Masterworks from former Goldman Sachs chairman John C. Whitehead will form the cornerstone collection at Christie’s sales of Impressionist and Modern art in New York on May 14 and 15.  They include Modigliani’s Portrait of Beatrice Hastings and Monet’s Paysage de matin (Giverny). Other highlights are by Morisot, Renoir, Seurat and Van Gogh.  The 90-piece collection is expected to achieve more than $40 million.

John Whitehead, who died in February, was a passionate collector. He served as chairman of Goldman Sachs during its critical phase of global expansion. He was a key diplomatic figure at the end of the Cold War as Deputy Secretary of State during the Reagan administration, and as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In the wake of 9/11 he was chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, tasked with rebuilding the area around Ground Zero.

Amedeo Modigliani Portrait of Beatrice Hastings 1916 ($5-7 million). Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd.. 2015  UPDATE: THIS MADE $16,069,000

Claude Monet, Paysage de matin (Giverny), oil on canvas, 1888. US$6-8 million Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd. 2015  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $4,533,000