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Archive for August, 2016
BECKETT AND JOYCE – AN EARLY CRITIQUE
Friday, August 19th, 2016
A first edition of an early critique by Samuel Beckett with and about James Joyce is available with London rare booksellers WATERFORD CRYSTAL AT KEIGHERY’S AUGUST AUCTION
Thursday, August 18th, 2016Waterford chandeliers, silver, rugs, antique furniture and art will come under the hammer at R.J. Keighery’s auction in Waterford on August 22. There are 960 lots in total and the catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:
TOM CULLEN (1934 – 2001)
MERCHANTS ARCH, DUBLIN
OLD DUBLIN SERIES 1977 (500-700) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
PERSIAN SILK PRAYER RUG (400-600) UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 580
OVAL TIFFANY SILVER 925 TRAY (500-700) UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 600
LARGE WATERFORD CRYSTAL CHANDELIER “ETOILE” 41″ HIGH (6,000-9,000) UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 6,800
A TRIBAL ART FAIR IN LONDON
Thursday, August 18th, 2016Tribal Art London – the UK’s only art fair devoted exclusively to selling works from specialists in non-Western Art – runs at the Mall Galleries, SW1 from September 1-4. The 22 international specialists involved will bring works ranging from dance masks to metalwork, textiles to tribal adornment, early photography to contemporary paintings at prices from under £100 to over £20,000. Here is a selection:
Beadwork crowns of the Yoruba, Nigeria at Joss Graham
A 19th century Zulu wooden vessel carved from a single block of wood with no joins, half a metre tall. POA at Jeremy Sabine
A contemporary work interpreting the Songlines traced by women making their way to the Western Desert Ancestral site of Munni Munni by Marlene Young Nungurrayi, born 1971 (£7,000 from Arjmand Aziz, specialist in Australian indigenous art)
A powerfully abstract mbulu ngulu reliquary figure of the Kota people, Gabon, West Africa. Kota mbulu ngulu are unique among African sculptural forms in their combination of wood covered with hammered metal, in this instance copper. (£11,500 from David Malik)
AN ANTIQUE FAIR AT THE ROSE OF TRALEE FESTIVAL
Wednesday, August 17th, 2016
A shamrock brooch.
It is that time of year again and for the first time this year Hibernian Antique Fairs will hit town from the annual Rose of Tralee festival. The first Rose of Tralee Antiques Art & Vintage Fair takes place at The Earl of Desmond Hotel on August 20 and 21. Opening times are from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on August 20 and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on August 21. There will be 40 antique shops, dealers, gallery’s and vintage dealers from around Ireland in attendance. Among them will be Treasures Irish Art Athlone (IADA), Marie Curran Jewellery Dublin (IADA), Greene’s Antique Furniture Drogheda (IADA), Billy Harnett Furniture Co.Limerick, Robert Delahunty Fine Art, Clonakilty, Co.Cork, Tara Crystal Chandeliers, Co.Waterford, Richard Walshe Coins & Banknotes Co.Galway, EIly Henry, Vintage Fashion, Co.Waterford and Sheila Poots, China & Porcelain Belfast.
DIAMOND RINGS AND COLOURED STONES AT O’REILLY’S NEXT SALE
Tuesday, August 16th, 2016There are diamond rings and coloured stones like sapphire, ruby and topaz in a variety of settings at the sale of jewellery, watches and silver at O’Reilly’s, Francis St., Dublin on August 24. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection.
A three stone diamond ring (20,000-22,000)
A certified Colombian emerald ring in diamond surround (10,000-12,000)
A diamond baguette necklace with matching earrings (3,000-4,000)
An 18 carat white gold diamond cross over ring (2,500-2,800)
WORK BY BELFAST ARTIST AT FIJI EXHIBITION AT SAINSBURY CENTRE
Sunday, August 14th, 2016Work by the Belfast born landscape and marine painter James Glen Wilson (1827-1863) will feature in a large exhibition on Fiji at the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia in Norwich from October 15 to February 12, 2017. Commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1852 to take part in the survey voyage of HMS Herald in the western Pacific Wilson recorded coastal views and the activities of the survey.
Fiji has a long history of activity and cultural exchanges with canoes transporting goods and peoples to Tonga, Samoa and neighbouring Pacific islands since 1,000 BC. The Europeans arrived in the 19th century, a Colonial government was established in 1874 and Fiji became independent in 1970. Many traditions have been maintained and even with a population of less than one million Fiji is a major rugby nation. The exhibition will highlight sculpture, textiles, ceramics, ivory and shell regalia, European paintings and historic photographs. Works in the exhibition by James Glen Wilson, who finally settled in Australia, show Fijian war canoes in action an a siege by Christian Fijians of a fortified village.
Fijian and Tongoese canoes getting underway near HMS Herald by James Glen Wilson
Fijian War Canoes 1856 by James Glen Wilson
ECLECTIC IMAGES AT IRELAND’S NATIONAL GALLERY
Saturday, August 13th, 2016An exhibition of recent print and drawing acquisitions opens today at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. Entitled Eclectic Images the first part of the exhibition shows a selection of some 60 prints and illustrated books from the Brian Lalor Collection, which charts the developments in printmaking through the centuries, from the early reproductive prints of Maerten van Heemskerk (1498-1574), to Christopher Le Brun’s (b.1951) mysterious Four Riders series of etchings. It explores themes such as the portrait in print; early twentieth-century printmaking; Biblical Palestine; and works inspired by Whistler.
The second part of the display includes some of the most beautiful and unusual watercolours, drawings and prints acquired by the Gallery through purchase or gift since 2011. It features drawings by Fernand Lèger, Walter Osborne and Kyffin Williams, as well as prints by Berthe Morisot, Frank Brangwyn and Micheal Farrell. The generous donation of over 160 prints received from Brian Lalor in 2014 underlines how the national collection continues to benefit from the generosity of private donors. Eclectic Images runs until December 7. Here is a sample:
John Faulkner (1835-1894)
Inniskea Isle, Achill
Photo © National Gallery of Ireland
Charles Blair Leighton (1823-1855)
Choosing the Wedding Gown, 1869
Presented, Brian Lalor, 2014
Photo © National Gallery of Ireland
James Caldwall (1739-1819)
Macbeth, Act I, Scene III, 1798
Presented, Brian Lalor, 2014
Photo © National Gallery of Ireland
Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677)
Portrait of Mary Villiers, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox, c.1646
Presented, Brian Lalor, 2014
Photo © National Gallery of Ireland
THE ALTON COLLECTION AT ADAMS ON SEPTEMBER 6
Friday, August 12th, 2016A spectacular single owner sale of a collection formed from the late 1940’s to the 1970’s by Dr Bryan G. Alton and his wife Winnie comes up at James Adam in Dublin on September 6. One of Ireland’s best known and respected physicians Bryan Alton amassed a quality and eclectic collection of fine furniture, porcelain, silver, objets d’art, old master and modern paintings and graphics, icons and exotic items. A highly regarded professional he served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, as Master Warden of the Corporation of Goldsmiths of Dublin and on the Board of the National Gallery of Ireland. Dr. Alton died in 1991. Highlights of this sale of 319 lots include a superb set of four Irish Georgian silver candlesticks made in Dublin by Michael Cormick and William Townsend circa 1760 estimated at €12,000-14,000. There is a spectacular George III inlaid and painted sycamore bowfront side cabinet, fashioned in the manner of London cabinet-makers Mayhew and Ince (15,000-20,000) and the sale includes Old Master paintings and some remarkable pieces of 18th century Meissen. Here is a selection: UPDATE: THE INDISCREET HARLEQUIN MADE A HAMMER PRICE OF 38,000.
SET OF FOUR IRISH GEORGIAN SILVER TABLE CANDLESTICKS, Dublin c.1760, makers mark of Michael Cormick & William Townsend (12,000-14,000) UPDATE: THESE MADE 13,500 AT HAMMER
JOOST CORNELIUS DROOGSLOOT (1586-1666)
Figures on a bridge outside a village (8,000-10,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 7,000 AT HAMMER
STYLE OF RIZA-I ABBASI, PERSIA 17TH CENTURY
Two galloping hunters in a landscape (5,000-7,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 8,500 AT HAMMER
18TH CENTURY MEISSEN GROUP OF THE INDISCREET HARLEQUIN
By J.J Kandler, c. 1742 (25,000-35,000)
GEORGE III INLAID AND PAINTED SYCAMORE BOWFRONT SIDE CABINET, in the manner of Mayhew and Ince (15,000-20,000) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
JACK DEMPSEY’S TITLE BELT AT CHRISTIE’S
Friday, August 12th, 2016Jack Dempsey’s title belt and a set of keys from the Titanic are among the collectibles on offer at Christie’s Out of the Ordinary sale in South Kensington, London on September 14. The 250th anniversary edition of this celebration of the unusual and unique comprises over 90 lots. All are now on view at a five week summer exhibition at Christie’s in the weeks leading up to the sale. Jersey based collector David Gainsborough Roberts has spent the last 40 years amassing an extraordinary selection of memorabilia from the worlds of film and entertainment, royalty and politics, sport, and travel and exploration. His collection includes personal possessions of an array of celebrities as diverse as Queen Victoria, Sir Winston Churchill, Lawrence of Arabia, the Duchess of Windsor, William Harrison “Jack” Dempsey and Captain Robert Falcon Scot. Highlights include the Titanic keys(£7,000-10,000); a pair of ear clips owned and worn by the Duchess of Windsor (£8,000-12,000); a silk head scarf and agal owned by Lawrence of Arabia (£3,000-5,000 and £10,000-15,000); and a Stetson presented to Sir Winston Churchill by the City of Calgary (£4,000-6,000).
A further highlight is the Leica Camera Family Tree, an artwork displaying 107 Leica cameras that chart the history of the camera maker from c1923 to 2006 (£350,000-450,000). Here is a small selection:
WILLIAM HARRISON “JACK” DEMPSEY (1895-1983)
A 14K GOLD, DIAMOND AND ENAMEL WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE BELT 1919 Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2016 UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £25,000
RMS Titanic – set of four keys on brass fob c1912 (£7,000-10,000) Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2016 UPDATE: THESE SOLD FOR £20,000
ANTIQUE AND INTERIOR LOTS AT SLANE AUCTION
Thursday, August 11th, 2016Antique furniture, mirrors and collectible items with highly reasonable estimates will come under the hammer at the Matthews of Oldcastle summer auction at The Old Transport Museum in Slane, Co. Meath on August 14. This is a large clearance sale of antique and interior items with over 750 lots. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:
An oval carved gilt wood mirror (200-300)
Vintage life belt marked Saltdean Lido, 1932 (40-70)
Pair of blue and white vases, 13″ high (100-150)
An Art Deco occasional table (70-120)
A walnut games table (250-350).
