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    SEVEN SALES = £190 MILLION AT CHRISTIE’S

    Wednesday, February 17th, 2016

    20th christiesA strong total of £190,230,950 was achieved by Christie’s across seven sales from January 29 to February 12.  Registered bidders from 71 countries across six continents, gave a strong indication that a ‘globalisation’ of taste continues to drive the evolution of collecting today. The sell-through rate was 86% by value and 84% by lot. All of the top ten lots were sold at the Impressionist, Modern and Surreal evening sale which achieved a total of £117,788,500. The Post-War and Contemporary evening auction achieved £58,099,000. British painting led the results with three decades of work by Peter Doig, David Hockney, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud making stand out results – the top six results were for British artists.

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    MADE IN BRITAIN AUCTION AT SOTHEBY’S

    Tuesday, February 16th, 2016

    Around 250 artworks illustrating the role Britain played in the development of modernism will feature at Sotheby’s Made in Britain auction in London on March 16.   The sale encompasses fine art, prints, sculpture, photography, studio ceramics and design.

    This is the fourth Made in Britain said and estimates start at just £200.  There are works by L.S. Lowry, Damien Hirst, Patrick Heron, Norman Parkinson, Frank Auerbach, Mary Fedden and David Hockney. The auction will also offer 19 works from the collection of the Martyn Goff, the driving force behind the Booker Prize. His first novel, The Plaster Fabric, was published in 1957. A highlight from the collection is a maquette for Henry Moore’s screen for the Time-Life building in Mayfair (£15,000-20,000).

    Henry Moore - Time-Life screen.

    Henry Moore – Time-Life screen.

    Banksy's Have a Nice Day.

    Banksy’s Have a Nice Day.

     

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    A MARTIN BROTHERS JAR AT DUBLIN AUCTION

    Monday, February 15th, 2016

    A c1895 Martin Brothers of Southall glazed pottery tobacco jar will highlight the James Adam sale of fine period interiors in Dublin on February 21.   Modelled in the form of a standing bird with a detachable head the tobacco jar and cover is estimated at 15,000-25,000.  The sale of 456 lots includes furniture, decorative arts, silver and paintings. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:

    MARTIN BROTHERS GLAZED POTTERY TOBACCO JAR AND COVER, c.1895 (15,000-25,000).

    MARTIN BROTHERS GLAZED POTTERY TOBACCO JAR AND COVER, c.1895 (15,000-25,000).

    INSCRIPTON - 'Martin Bros, London T Southall 10.1895'

    INSCRIPTION – ‘Martin Bros, London T Southall 10.1895’  UPDATE: THIS MADE 13,000 AT HAMMER

    JOSEPH HORLOR (1809-1887) Boy fishing on a rocky coast, boats offshore (500-700)

    JOSEPH HORLOR (1809-1887)
    Boy fishing on a rocky coast, boats offshore (500-700) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    A GEORGIAN MAHOGANY CHEST ON CHEST (2,000-3,000)

    A GEORGIAN MAHOGANY CHEST ON CHEST (2,000-3,000)  UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,600 AT HAMMER

    A FRENCH MARBLE AND ORMOLU MOUNTED 'BALLOON' MANTLE CLOCK (2,000-3,000).

    A FRENCH MARBLE AND ORMOLU MOUNTED ‘BALLOON’ MANTLE CLOCK (2,000-3,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 9,500 AT HAMMER

    AN EDWARDIAN WALNUT MARQUETRY TABLE-TOP CHESS BOARD (250-300)

    AN EDWARDIAN WALNUT MARQUETRY TABLE-TOP CHESS BOARD (250-300) UPDATE: THIS MADE 670 AT HAMMER

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    BUCK MINIATURES AT LYNES AND LYNES AUCTION

    Sunday, February 14th, 2016
    A collection of miniatures – some by the Buck family – come up at Lynes and Lynes in Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork on February 20. The auction is timely as an exhibition by Cork born Adam Buck previously at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is running at the Crawford Gallery until April 9.  Adam Buck was one of four children in an artistic family.  He  became one of the most sought after portrait painters of Regency England.  18th and 19th century Rowland family miniatures by the Buck family and one by Andrew Dunn is included in the auction. The Rowland’s were Mayors and Sherriffs of Cork in the 18th century. Rowland’s Lane off Mulgrave Road is named after them.
    The auction will include some lots from Cashel Palace Hotel and a clearance from a Lismore estate. Among the antique furniture is a Regency rosewood side cabinet (2,000-3,000); a collection of seven early 19th century hunting scenes woven in silk by Thomas Stevens (1,000-1,500); a Cork Regency card table (2,000-2,500);  a c1800 Cork Georgian cylinder desk cabinet with fine fluted legs (1,500-2,000); two fine military chests (1,000-1,500 each); a large Victorian pine house keepers cupboard (1,000-1,500); a late Georgian dining table (400-600) and an antique mahogany hunt table (300-500). The sale includes a c1760 Irish George II carved pier mirror (2,000-3,000); a portrait of a lady by James Butler Brennan RHA (1825-1889) (600-1,000);  a pair of 19th century gilt brass and porcelain candelabra (600-1,000); four Morgan views of Cork Harbour (100-200): a Victorian cast iron spiral staircase and some Persian rugs.

    (See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for February 6 and 7, 2016 and July 17, 2015).

    A collection of miniatures.

    A collection of miniatures.  UPDATE: THESE SOLD FOR VARIOUS PRICES FROM 500 TO 1,100 MAKING A TOTAL OF WELL OVER 7,000

    A c1800 Cork cylinder desk and cabinet

    A c1800 Cork cylinder desk and cabinet  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 4,100

    An antique Irish mirror.

    An antique Irish mirror. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 5,000

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    COLLECTION BY VICTORIAN IRISH AUTHOR L.T. MEADE

    Saturday, February 13th, 2016
    A collection of works by a prolific Bandon born novelist of the 19th century L.T. Meade is being offered for sale privately by Fonsie Mealy auctioneers for 25,000.   Elizabeth Thomasina Meade (1844-1914) was daughter of the Rev. R.T. Meade and his wife Sarah, nee Lane.  Her childhood was spent at Nohoval in County Cork. She moved to London in 1874, married and subsequently lived in Oxford. She had her first book published aged 22 and thereafter her output was enormous.
    Writing under the name of L.T. Meade she produced over 300 books, contributed numerous articles to periodicals and for 11 year edited a girls’ magazine – Atalanta – to which Rider Haggard and Robert Louis Stevenson contributed.  She wrote for children, schoolgirls and young women and responded to the social issues of her time. Her subjects included urban poverty, lack of good looks, inability to fit in, feminism, drug addiction, detective stories with child detectives and female master criminals and the role of the “modern” woman.  The collection now offered for sale represents a lifetime of careful collecting in the colorful binding of the time.

    The collection of books by L.T. Meade

    The collection of books by L.T. Meade

    L.T.Meade

    L.T.Meade

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    PETER DOIG LEADS CHRISTIE’S POST WAR AND CONTEMPORARY SALE

    Thursday, February 11th, 2016

    Peter Doig’s The Architect’s Home in the Ravine, painted in 1991, was the top lot at Christie’s Post War and Contemporary auction in London tonight.  It made £11,282,500 in a sale which brought in £58,099,000.  Registered bidders from 42 countries across four continents took part in an auction where 51% of works sold above estimate and 38% were within estimate.

    Works that were hotly contested included David Hockney’s Beach Umbrella (1971), which made £3,106,500. Three works by Alexander Calder from the Arthur and Anita Kahn Collection realised a total of £3,439,500 led by Crag with Yellow Boomerang and Red Eggplant (1974), which sold for £1,874,500. Zeitpunkt: Das Massaker von Muenchen (Point of time: The Massacre of Munich) by Joseph Beuys sold for £854,500 and Untitled (1973) by Robert Mangold, made £746,500. Each set a new world record for the artist.  The Yves Klein illustrated below, estimated at £8-14 million, failed to sell.  Francis Bacon’s Two Figures (1975) sold for £5.4 million. A self portrait conjoined with the figure of George Dyer it was painted in Paris shortly after Dyer’s suicide. It was from the collection of Michael Peppiatt, a leading biographer and curator of Bacon.

    Peter Doig - The architect's home in the ravine.

    Peter Doig – The architect’s home in the ravine.

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    FREUD’S PREGNANT GIRL SELLS FOR £16.1 MILLION

    Thursday, February 11th, 2016
    The auction room during the sale.

    The auction room during the sale. (See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for February 6 and January 17, 2016)

    Pregnant Girl,  Lucian Freud’s portrait of his then 17 year old Irish lover Bernadine Coverly pregnant with their daughter Bella, sold for £16.1 million at Sotheby’s in London last night. Dated 1960-61 it was a record price for an early painting by the artist.  The work had been in the same collection for more than 30 years.  It was the top lot in a sale of contemporary art which brought in £69.5 million. There were auction records for Alberto Burri and Adrian Ghenie.  Burri’s Sacco e Rosso made £9.1 million and Ghenie’s 2014 work, Sunflowers in 1937, soared to £3.1 million.

    Alex Branczik, head of Contemporary Art, London said afterwards:  “Tonight we saw a confident art market, punctuated by some real high-points and a depth of bidding. There was much debate about the market ahead of the sale, but in spite of the broader economy, tonight proved that collectors will always compete for works of outstanding quality and rarity.”

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    A SPRING THRIFT SALE AT MEALY’S IN CASTLECOMER

    Wednesday, February 10th, 2016

    Mealy’s will have a spring thrift auction in Castlecomer on February 13.  All 500 lots are to be sold without reserve.  The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:

    A Georgian mahogany oval tray (100-150)

    A Georgian mahogany oval tray (100-150)

    An unusual marquetry games table (200-400)

    An unusual marquetry games table (200-400)

    A 19th century walnut Continental corner cupboard (100-200)

    A 19th century walnut Continental corner cupboard (100-200)

    A Noritake Irish tea and dinner service (70-120)

    A Noritake Irish tea and dinner service (70-120)

    An inlaid slope front bureau (100-200).

    An inlaid slope front bureau (100-200).

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    ONLINE SALE OF IRISH ART AT MORGAN O’DRISCOLL

    Monday, February 8th, 2016

    More than 360 lots will come under the hammer at Morgan O’Driscoll’s online sale of Irish art.  The auction runs until February 22.  The catalogue and full details are online. Here is a small selection:

    Kenneth Webb RWA FRSA RUA (b.1927) The Artist's Garden (4,000-6,000)

    Kenneth Webb RWA FRSA RUA (b.1927)
    The Artist’s Garden (4,000-6,000)  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 3,400

    William Conor RHA RUA ROI (1881-1968) Waiting in Town (2,000-3,000)

    William Conor RHA RUA ROI (1881-1968)
    Waiting in Town (2,000-3,000) UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 2,400 AT HAMMER

    Arthur K. Maderson (b.1942) Le March De Nuit (The Night Market) (4,000-6,000)

    Arthur K. Maderson (b.1942)
    Le March De Nuit (The Night Market) (4,000-6,000)  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 4,000

    Liam O'Neill (b.1954) Race to the Finish (9,000-12,000)

    Liam O’Neill (b.1954)
    Race to the Finish (9,000-12,000) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

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    THE KEYS OF THE GPO AT FONSIE MEALY’S CENTENARY SALE

    Monday, February 8th, 2016
    The GPO keys.

    The GPO keys.

    The 1916 GPO keys is one of the most unusual lots in the plethora of upcoming sales relating to the centenary of the Irish Rising.  The GPO was the centre of activities os these are a truly historic memento.  They will come up at the centenary sale at Fonsie Mealy in Castlecomer on April 23 estimated at 550-750. They are from the collection of Fred Dixon, who was given them by Comdt. Brennan Whitmore, a Volunteer who commanded the North King St. area during the Rising.  He got them, by repute, from a comrade who picked them up in the ruins of the GPO.   The Rising, on Easter Monday 1916, fell on April 24.

     

    UPDATE:  THE set of keys attracted spirited bidding and finally sold for 3,400 at hammer.

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