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    A FABERGE CIGARETTE CASE AT DURROW AUCTION

    Saturday, April 25th, 2015
    A Faberge cigarette case, an early 20th century flying machine and an Elizabethan refectory table are among the lots on offer at Sheppards two day sale in Durrow, Co. Laois on April 28 and 29. The sale offers 1,300 lots of period furniture, fine art, decorative art, jewellery and garden statuary.  There are examples of Sevres porcelain, a collection of Louis Vuitton bags, a nude by Paul Sieffert, marble and stone garden statuary, musical instruments, carpets, rugs, jewellery and even a flying machine powered by a Villiers engine from the 1920’s.
    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for April 17, 2015).

    ITALIAN MINIATURE AND ORMOLU MOUNTED EBONY JEWELLERY CASKET (6,000-9,000)

    ITALIAN MINIATURE AND ORMOLU MOUNTED EBONY JEWELLERY CASKET (6,000-9,000)  UPDATE: THIS MADE 8,500

    An early 20th century flying machine (3,000-5,000)

    An early 20th century flying machine (3,000-5,000)  UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,400

    An Elizabethan carved oak refectory table 16th century and later (6,000-9,000).

    An Elizabethan carved oak refectory table 16th century and later (6,000-9,000).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 6,500

    A presentation Faberge silver cigarette case (1,000-1,500).

    A presentation Faberge silver cigarette case (1,000-1,500).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,000

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    MORE THAN 300 LOTS OF ART AND COLLECTIBLES AT DOLAN’S

    Friday, April 24th, 2015

    More than 300 lots of art, antiques and collectibles will come under the hammer at Dolan’s Bank Holiday Sunday sale at Kelly’s Hotel in Rosslare, Co. Wexford on May 3. The catalogue is on-line.  Here is a small selection from the art on offer:

    David ffrench le Roy b.1971 SPRING FLOWERS (700-850)

    David ffrench le Roy
    b.1971
    SPRING FLOWERS (700-850)  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 800

    Brian Ballard RUA YELLOW ROSES (950-1,250)

    Brian Ballard RUA
    YELLOW ROSES (950-1,250)  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 1,475

    James le Jeune RHA 1910 - 1983 CHILDREN ON THE BEACH (3,500-4,500)

    James le Jeune RHA
    1910 – 1983
    CHILDREN ON
    THE BEACH (3,500-4,500)  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 4,600

    Mainie Jellett 1897 - 1944 THE WAVE (4,500-5,000)

    Mainie Jellett
    1897 – 1944
    THE WAVE (4,500-5,000)

    Markey Robinson 1918 - 1999 WATCHING THE BOATS (!,200-1,400).

    Markey Robinson
    1918 – 1999
    WATCHING THE BOATS (!,200-1,400).  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 1,000

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    SELF-PORTRAIT BY AMRITA SHER-GIL AT CHRISTIE’S

    Friday, April 24th, 2015
    Amrita Sher-Gil - Self portrait at the age of 18 (1931).

    Amrita Sher-Gil – Self portrait at the age of 18 (1931).  UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR £1,762,500

    A 1931 self-portrait by Amrita Sher-Gil, depicting one of India’s most important modern artists at the age of 18, comes up at Christie’s in London on June 10. This is the first painting by the artist ever to be offered in London, and one of only eight canvases by Sher-Gil to be offered at auction. It is the only known profile self portrait by the artist. It is estimated at £1-1.8 million.

    Born in Budapest in 1913 to a Hungarian mother and an India father Sher-Gil was a tour de force in the landscape of modernism in British India. In her brief 28 years she lived between India, Hungary and France. She painted the life of people and her surroundings with an intensity that remains unparalleled in modern Indian art. In Paris she was elected as an associate of the Grand Salon, a rare honor at the time for a young, foreign artist, as a result of the power of her portraits.  Most of her work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi.  This self portrait is one of her undiscovered paintings and it has remained in France since the time it was painted.

    UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR £1,762,500

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    VICTORIAN SCULPTURES FROM CARBISDALE CASTLE

    Thursday, April 23rd, 2015
    Pasquale Romanelli Italian, 1812 - 1887 ANDROMEDA (£80,000-120,000).

    Pasquale Romanelli
    Italian, 1812 – 1887
    ANDROMEDA (£80,000-120,000).UPDATE: THIS SOLD TO AN ASIAN COLLECTOR FOR £125,000. This is a record for the artist at auction.

    The Carbisdale Castle, Scotland collection of Victorian sculptures – not seen on the market for over a century – will come up at Sotheby’s in London on May 20.   “Encompassing the elegant Neoclassicism of the early part of the century to the fantastical Romanticism of the Belle Époque years, the works on offer shine a light not only on collecting tastes at the height of the British Empire, but also on how sculptors of the period created works of astonishing beauty and grace through their masterful handling of marble” Christopher Mason, Sotheby’s European Sculpture specialist, commented.

    Carbisdale Castle is a magnificent Scots Baronial residence in the heart of the Highlands.  The works are offered by the current custodians of the castle, the Scottish Youth Hostels Association . Together with an array of 36 Italian and Scottish nineteenth-century paintings, most of which are quality copies of Old Masters, the 17 sculptures will be presented for sale as part of Sotheby’s 19th and 20th century sculpture auction.  The group also includes a nineteenth-century textile, and is estimated to bring a combined total in the region of £500,000.

    Keith Legge Scottish Youth Hostels Associations ceo said: “It has been a privilege for SYHA to have been the custodian of Carbisdale Castle and its contents for the past 70 years enabling our members and guests to experience living in a castle”.  The proceeds will be used to sustain SYHA’s diverse youth hostel network of affordable fit-for-purpose accommodation.

    UPDATE: The sale realised £2.3 million, Sotheby’s highest ever total for an auction of 19th and 20th century sculpture. The Carbisdale Castle collection brought in £1 million.

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    IRISH DINING TABLE SELLS FOR 70,000 AT COURTOWN AUCTION

    Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015
    An impressive Irish Gillingtons style c1820 mahogany dining table sold for two times its top estimate at the James Adam sale of contents from Courtown House, Kilcock, Co. Kildare today  It made a hammer price of 70,000 over an estimate of 25,000-35,000. Attributed to Gillingtons of Dublin the table is designed to be used either as a single piece or as three separate tables.  It can be traced back to the original Courtown House contents auction in 1963.  The table is on quadruped pillar supports.   Gillingtons were a Dublin firm of cabinet makers in the early years of the 19th century. The table had been estimated at 25,000-35,000.
    Also from the dining room at Courtown House is a rare pair of George III mahogany dining room pedestals after a design by Gillows. sold for 20,300 and a pair of gilt torcheres by del Vecchio of Dublin sold for 28,000.  A gilt wood table attributed to the English maker Matthias Locke sold for 20,000.  The table was originally at Crton House.
    (See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for April 18 and April 8, 2015).
    The dining table sold for 70,000 at hammer.

    The dining table sold for 70,000 at hammer.

    These giltwood torcheres by del Vecchio of Dublin sold for 28,000 at hammer

    These giltwood torcheres by del Vecchio of Dublin sold for 28,000 at hammer

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    KIPPENBERGER AND KOONS FROM TASCHEN AT CHRISTIE’S

    Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015

    Masterworks by Martin Kippenberger and Jeff Koons from the collection of renowned publisher and art collector, Benedikt Taschen come up at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale in New York on May 13.   Leaders of the New York and Cologne art scenes the controversial and ambitious artists first met in Cologne in 1986, where Taschen’s publishing empire was founded a few years earlier. Through Untitled and Louis XIV, Kippenberger and Koons, who possessed strong mutual respect for one another, were both taking the guise of art history to portray themselves, the first one as the greatest of all 20th century painters, Pablo Picasso; the second, as the royal figure of the ‘Sun King’ Louis XIV.

    Jeff Koons (born 1955) - Louis XIV ($10-15 million) © Christie’s Images Limited 2015

    Jeff Koons (born 1955) – Louis XIV ($10-15 million) © Christie’s Images Limited 2015  UPDATE: THIS MADE $10,805,000

    Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) Untitled - © Christie’s Images Limited 2015

    Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) Untitled ($15-20 million) – © Christie’s Images Limited 2015  UPDATE: THIS MADE $16,405,000

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    DESIGN AND ART AT DE VERES DUBLIN AUCTION

    Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015

    The design and art auction at de Veres at Kildare St. in Dublin on April 28 offers a mix of 20th  century design furniture including a number of Danish pieces.  The sale will also include about 40 lots of Irish art, among them several larger canvasses such as Brian Bourke’s diptych entitled East Manhattan and John Shinnors’ Black Skirt Still Life. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection.

    Sir Norman Foster THE NOMOS TABLE FOR TECNO, ITALY, (1,500-2,000)

    Sir Norman Foster
    THE NOMOS TABLE
    FOR TECNO, ITALY, (1,500-2,000)  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    THE SIESTA CHAIR AND STOOL, BY INGMAR RELLING FOR WESTNOFA (500-700)

    THE SIESTA CHAIR AND STOOL,
    BY INGMAR RELLING FOR WESTNOFA (500-700)  UPDATE: THIS MADE 600

    An elliptical coffee table by Cini Boeri (600-900).

    An elliptical coffee table by Cini Boeri (600-900). UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,600

    A c1965 Danish rosewood sideboard by Bernard Pedersen and Sons, Copenhagen (2,000-3,000).

    A c1965 Danish rosewood sideboard by Bernard Pedersen and Sons, Copenhagen (2,000-3,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,400

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    A PERFECT 100 CARAT DIAMOND MAKES $22.1 MILLION

    Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015
    The perfect stone.

    The perfect stone.

    An extraordinary 100.20-carat ‘Perfect Diamond’ in a classic Emerald-cut sold for $22.1 million at Sotheby’s NewYork headquarters. Diamonds of this exceptional quality – D color and Internally Flawless clarity – are incredibly rare, and are considered ‘perfect’.  What distinguishes the present example within this rarefied league is its beautiful shape: it is the largest perfect diamond with a classic Emerald-cut ever to be sold at auction.

    Only six perfect diamonds weighing over 100 carats have sold at auction in the last 25 years.  The sale of magnificent jewels totaled $65.1 million. Ten jewels sold for more than $1 million, including four sold to online bidders.

     

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for February 13, 2015).

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    HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS AND MAPS OF CHINA

    Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015

    A series of rare photographs and maps of China will be offered for sale at Sotheby’s sale of Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History in London on April 30.  Created nearly 150 years ago, they include some of the earliest images of the country, bringing to light a historic China and illuminating a landscape now changed beyond recognition.  Highlights include: a rare large-scale historic Chinese woodcut map of Beijing; 60 photographs of 1870s Xiamen; 100 of 1870’s Ningbo and over 100 of 1860’s Beijing.

    Photographs of historic China are highly desired by collectors around the globe.  The auction record for any historic photographs of the region currently stands at £349,250 for a rare album of photographs by John Thomson titled Foochow and the River Min which sold at Sotheby’s on 15 November 2012.  One of an edition of only 46, this album was offered for sale by descendants of the original tea-merchant owner, Oliver Latham, who won the album in a pigeon match in Foochow in April 1873.

    One of 60 photographs of 1870's Xiamen (£40,000-60,000).

    One of 60 photographs of 1870’s Xiamen (£40,000-60,000).  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £50,000

    A complete map of Shun Tian.

    A rare historic map of Beijing (£40,000-60,000). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £37,500

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    GREAT COLLECTION OF TIFFANY AT SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK

    Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

    One of the greatest collections of Tiffany and prewar design to appear at auction will come up at Sotheby’s in New York on May 19.  The sale  of the Warshawsky collection, assembled by the Chicago based Ray Warshawsky from the late 1960’s to the early 1990’s, features works of rich quality and luminosity of colour.  He assembled an encyclopedic collection of Tiffany which spans every artistic discipline of the firms production.

    UPDATE: The Collection totalled $7,951,125 with 98.6% of all lots sold. Fierce demand for the collection’s many treasures drove more than three-quarters of all 138 lots on offer to exceed their pre-sale high estimates.

    Tiffany Studios - Elaborate Peony Lamp c1910 ($600,000-900,000).

    Tiffany Studios – Elaborate Peony Lamp c1910 ($600,000-900,000).  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

     

    Tiffany Studios River of Life Window, (1915) ($200,000-300,000).

    Tiffany Studios River of Life Window, (1915) ($200,000-300,000).  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $394,000

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