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    ROMAN EMPEROR BUSTS FROM GUINNESS FAMILY COLLECTION

    Friday, July 3rd, 2015

    A pair of white marble busts of Roman Emperors from the Guinness family come up at Sotheby’s in London on July 9.  Estimated at £50,000-70,000 the late 17th/early 18th century busts are classified as Irish or British.  By tradition they were in the collection of the Earls of Mayo, Palmerstown House, Co. Kildare and in the collection of Desmond Guinness at Leixlip Castle from around 1960 and thence by family descent.  Sotheby’s say the over life size busts are likely to have been carved  by a Flemish or Dutch sculptor operating in Britain or Ireland.  The pre-eminent sculptors active at that time were Dutch or Flemings drawn to the country in the wake of the Restoration.  The figures will come up at the sale of Old Master Sculpture and works of art.

    UPDATE: THESE WERE UNSOLD

    One from a pair of monumental busts of Roman Emperors.

    One from a pair of monumental busts of Roman Emperors.

    One from a pair of monumental busts of Roman Emperors

    One from a pair of monumental busts of Roman Emperors

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    CHINESE VASES SELL FOR 60,000 AT SHEPPARDS

    Thursday, July 2nd, 2015

     

    This pair of Qing vases sold for 60,000.

    This pair of Qing vases sold for 60,000.

    A pair of Chinese gu shaped polychrome vases estimated at just 800-1,200 sold for a hammer price of 60,000 at Sheppards in Durrow on July 1.  They were bought by bidders in the room who had travelled from Beijing for the sale.  The signed Qing period vases are by tradition from the collection of Sir William Hutchinson Poe, Baronet (1848-1934) whose address was Heywood House, Queen’s County (nowadays County Laois).  A Chinese Qing period Famille Vert vase estimated at 1,000-1,500 sold for 42,000 in the room.

    Vase (detail).

    Vase (detail).

    Vase (detail).

    Vase (detail).

    Vase (detail).

    Vase (detail).

    This Qing Famille Vert vase made 42,000.

    This Qing Famille Vert vase made 42,000.

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    ONE DOLLAR BILL BY ANDY WARHOL SELLS FOR £20.9 MILLION

    Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
    Andy Warhol - One Dollar Bill (Silver Certificate) sold for £20.9 million.

    Andy Warhol – One Dollar Bill (Silver Certificate) sold for £20.9 million.

    Andy Warhol’s One Dollar Bill made £20.9 million to become the top lot at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art sale in London tonight. Painted in 1962 it was his first dollar painting. The sale brought in £130.4 million, a 40% increase on the same sale a year ago.  However the painting billed as the highlight of the sale, a Francis Bacon Pope, did not sell and neither did two Warhol silkscreens. Nonetheless this was the highest ever total for an auction of contemporary art in Europe. Two newly discovered works by Francis Bacon made £30 million and Four Eggs on a Plate, a present from Lucian Freud to the late Dowager Duchess of Devonshire made just short of one million after being chased by seven bidders.

    (See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for June 26, June 9 and June 1, 2015).

    Francis Bacon - Three Studies for a Self-Portrait (1980) sold for £14.7 million.

    Francis Bacon – Three Studies for a Self-Portrait (1980) sold for £14.7 million.

    Francis Bacon - Self-Portrait 1975 sold for £15.3 million..

    Francis Bacon – Self-Portrait 1975 sold for £15.3 million..

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    MILITARY CROSS AWARDED TO CORK CHAPLAIN SELLS FOR 8,000

    Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
    The medal set including the Military Cross awarded to Tom Duggan.

    The medal set including the Military Cross awarded to Tom Duggan sold for 8,000 at hammer.

    THE Military Cross, OBE and 1939-45 war medals awarded to Archdeacon Tom Duggan sold for a hammer price of 8,000 at Woodwards in Cork this evening. Two bidders in the room fought off internet bidders from England and commissioned bids to battle it out from 6,500 onwards.  The historic medal set – which includes the first Military Cross awarded to an army chaplain – will be staying in Cork.  Archdeacon Duggan, who died on the missions in Peru in 1961, served as a chaplain in both the First and Second World Wars and taught at St. Finbarr’s Seminary in Cork.

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for June 27, 2015).

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    FRANCIS BACON TOPS CHRISTIE’S £95.6 MILLION SALE IN LONDON

    Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
    Bidding in progress for Bacon's Study for Head of Isabel Rawsthorne and George Dyer.

    Bidding in progress for Bacon’s Study for Head of Isabel Rawsthorne and George Dyer.

    Francis Bacon’s Study for Head of Isabel Rawsthorne and George Dyer  was the top lot at Christie’s post war and contemporary art evening sale in London last night. It made £12,178,500 in an auction that achieved £95,646,500.  Bidding was particularly active for collections from the Museum of Old and New Art (£4,630,000) and The Jacobs Collection (£6,993,000).  There was enthusiasm for artists including Jean Dubuffet, Richard Hamilton and Morris Louis.

    Bidders from 34 countries across three continents competed for works by exciting contemporary artists alongside classics of the category. Records included Chris Ofili’s Holy Virgin Mary (£2,882,500), Malcolm Morley (£1,202,500), R.H Quaytman (£578,500), Jeff Elrod (£218,500), Brent Wadden (£122,500) and The Chapman Brothers (£422,500). Christie’s said the auction showed further evidence of the momentum in market that has been witnessed over a record-breaking season of sales for Christie’s across Europe and the US, with strong results not only in New York but also Amsterdam, Milan and Paris.

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