It is art sales weeks in Dublin next week. Whyte’s will get the ball rolling on September 28 with a sale of Irish and International art at the RDS. There is a wide variety of offer. A rarity is Galway artist Joseph Patrick Haverty’s A Family Group from c1850 (30,000-50,000) with astonishing detail of consumes and the figures as a family disembark from their painted rowing boat. Sir John Lavery’s 1931 portrait of The Earl of Lonsdale is estimated at 25,000-40,000. He inaugurated The Lonsdale Belt for boxing in 1909 and his name was immortalized in 1959 when it was used for a range of boxing equipment and sporting. Lavery described his as “the most paintable – not to say the best dressed – Englishman I knew”. There is contemporary art too from Sean Scully and John Shinnors to William Crozier and Rowan Gillespie. Whyte’s will offer 216 lots and the catalogue is online. Here is a small selection.
(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for September 19, 2015)
Joseph Patrick Haverty (1794-1864) Group Portrait of a Family c1850 (30,000-50,000) UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 42,000
Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) The Earl of Lonsdale KG, 1931 (25,000-40,000). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
John Shinnors – Terrible Day, Loop Head, Co. Clare (8,000-10,000). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 8,000
Rowan Gillespie – maquette for WB Yeats, Sligo, 1989 1/9 (8,000-10,000). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 17,000