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    A WILLIAM MOORE SIDE TABLE AT HEGARTY’S OF BANDON

    Saturday, November 12th, 2016

    A demi lune side table by the renowned Dublin maker William Moore is a highlight at Hegarty’s sale in Bandon, Co. Cork  on the evening of November 15. Estimated at 15,000-20,000 the satinwood and marquetry table is decorated with oval floral panels and a floral medallion.  From the collection of the late Maggie Glixted in Kinsale it is inlaid in satinwood, sycamore and tulip wood.  Other highlights in a sale which includes highlights from the collection of the late Dr. Marie Baker of Bantry at Hegarty’s are a c1765 Worcester basket mould dish (1,200-1,300), a Killarney wood jewellery box (2,500-3,000), an 18th century hunt table (3,000-4,000), a pair of landscapes by Edmund Johann Niemann (1813-1876) (4,000-8,000), a pair of unusual rosewood bookshelves (3,000-4,000), a pair of 19th century cast bronze figures of women bathing (2,200-2,800) and an 18th century dish top silver table (2,000-2,500).

    A demi-lune side table by William Moore

    A demi-lune side table by William Moore  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 18,600

    A Killarney wood jewellery box

    A Killarney wood jewellery box  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 2,200

    A RANGE OF ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES AT LIMERICK FAIR

    Friday, November 11th, 2016
    No matter what area of interest you pursue as a collector you will get to take your pick from a range which includes everything from antique Irish furniture and contemporary art to Waterford and Murano glass, coins and medals at the National Antiques, Art and Vintage fair at the South Court Hotel in Limerick on November 12-13.
    In the beginning of the run up to Christmas Hibernian Antique Fairs come home to Limerick for what is one of the most popular events on their annual calendar. It is always a crowd puller.  There will be at least five art galleries, ten antique furniture stalls, twelve dealers with jewellery, silver and objets d’art and rare book dealers from around the country. In addition to all this a range of dealers big and small will bring Oriental furniture and effects, costume jewellery, vintage fashion, coins, banknotes, medals, militaria, china, porcelain, brass, copper, clocks, watches, gramophones and car memorabilia.
    Among those present will be George Stacpoole of Adare, the Irish Antique Dealers Association President and IADA members like Greene’s Galleries, Drogheda, Roger Grimes and Vanessa Parker of Co. Mayo and Weldons of Dublin.  This assembly of antique business professionals from all over the island of Ireland, North and South offers collectors an unrivalled opportunity to see what dealers from Belfast to Ballina and Dublin to Dromcollogher have in stock.

    A selection of Clarice Cliff

    A selection of Clarice Cliff

    This rare rose vase in nine carat gold was made in Birmingham in 1906 by Walker Hall and Co. Ltd. Commissioned for a 50th wedding anniversary it will be at the Charles Vivian stand

    This rare rose vase in nine carat gold was made in Birmingham in 1906 by Walker Hall and Co. Ltd. Commissioned for a 50th wedding anniversary it will be at the Charles Vivian stand

    A RECORD BREAKING NIGHT FOR BRITISH ART

    Friday, November 11th, 2016
    Frank Auerbach’s Head of Gerda Boehm sold for £3.8m

    Frank Auerbach’s Head of Gerda Boehm sold for £3.8m

    With participants from 46 countries there were records for 11 British artists at Part 1 of the sale of the David Bowie Collection at Sotheby’s.  The first session, a white glove sale in which every lot found a buyer in a record breaking night for British art,  doubled the high estimate and totalled  £24.3 million.

    There were artists records for Frank Auerbach, Peter Lanyon, Bernard Leach, Winifred Nicholson, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Henry Lamb, Harold Gilman, Ivon Hitchens, Kenneth Armitage, Bryan Wynter, Patrick Caulfield and Meret Oppenheim.  Over the course of the 10-day pre-sale exhibition in London, more than 37,000 people came to Sotheby’s to view the collection, making for the best attended pre-sale exhibition London has ever witnessed.  The top lot of the evening was Air Power 1984 by Jean Michel Basquiat which made £7.1 million.

    Bowie famously said of the Frank Auerbach painting illustrated left: “My God, yeah!  I want to sound like that looks”. 

    Sleep Sound by Jack B. Yeats sold for £233,000 over a top estimate of £180,000 and Image of James Joyce by Louis le Brocquy sold for £68,750 over a top estimate of £15,000.

    Part I: Modern and Contemporary Art, Evening Auction: £24.3m

    Part II: Modern and Contemporary Art, Day Sale: £7.2m

    Part III: Design: Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis Group: £1.4m

     

    “David Bowie’s personal art collection captured the imagination of the tens of thousands who visited our exhibitions and the thousands who took part in the sales. Sotheby’s is truly honoured to have had the opportunity to share this collection with the world and, in doing so, offer a fresh insight into the creative mind of one of the greatest cultural figures of our time.”– Oliver Barker, Chairman, Sotheby’s Europe

    Image of James Joyce by Louis le Brocquy sold for £68,750.

    Image of James Joyce by Louis le Brocquy sold for £68,750.

    Sleep Sound by Jack B. Yeats sold for £233,000.

    Sleep Sound by Jack B. Yeats sold for £233,000.

    AN IRISH SILVER PORRINGER FROM THE TIME OF OLIVER CROMWELL

    Wednesday, November 9th, 2016
    The Porringer dates to the time of Oliver Cromwell.

    The Porringer dates to the time of Oliver Cromwell.  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR A HAMMER PRICE OF £25,000

    A porringer made in Dublin during the time of Oliver Cromwell is to be auctioned by Sworders Auctioneers at Stansted in England on November 30. Dating to between 1659 and 1663 it is estimated at £4,000-6,000 and is reckoned to be one of the oldest pieces of secular Irish silver known.  Engraved with the initials I.S. it is marked with a Dublin Harpl

    The porringer is from the collection of Col. S.L. Bibby.  According to his granddaughter much of his collection was stolen.   Seven pieces from the collection of Col. Bibby were included in an exhibition entitled Seven Centuries of English Domestic Silver at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1958.

    Among the tiny corpus of pre-1660 domestic wares published in Tony Sweeney’s catalogue raisonné of Irish Stuart Silver (1995) is an austere porringer from the end of the Commonwealth period. It was shown by How of Edinburgh at the Antique Dealers Fair and Exhibition at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel in 1967 priced at £3,000. An advertisement in the Connoisseur magazine in the same year stated: ‘There would appear to be only one earlier piece of Irish secular plate at present recorded’. At the time, only a table salt made in Dublin c.1640 by the English migrant goldsmith George Gallant was thought to pre-date it.

    MARKET FOR IMPORTANT DESIGN GROWS

    Tuesday, November 8th, 2016

    The market for important works of design has gone from strength to strength in recent months.  The Design sale at Sotheby’s in London on November 15 follows on successful similar sales in New York and Paris in 2016.  Following the success of a relaunched dedicated design sale for London in 2015, this second edition will be underpinned by important works of Post-war Scandinavian, Italian, French, American and Contemporary Design, including rare examples by Arne Jacobsen, Gerrit Rietveld, Gio Ponti, Studio Job, Marc Newsom and Nacho Carbonell. The sale takes place just days ahead of the landmark opening of a major new home for London’s Design Museum.

    Fontana Arte - Low Table Model No. 1774

    Fontana Arte – Low Table Model No. 1774  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £50,000

    Gerrit Thomas Rietveld - Zig Zag Chair

    Gerrit Thomas Rietveld – Zig Zag Chair  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £16,875

    Hans Coper - Monumental Spade Form vase

    Hans Coper – Monumental Spade Form vase  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £62,500

    Arne Jacobsen - Desk

    Arne Jacobsen – Desk  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    BOWIE COLLECTION IS INSTRUCTIVE

    Monday, November 7th, 2016
    David Bowie‘s collection of a wide variety of contemporary art and design is instructive insofar as it shows that in order to get it you must engage with it. An avid and genuine collector he was deeply involved with and sustained by art and design.  “I use it”  he explained once. “It can change the way I feel in the mornings”.
    His collection spans post-war British avant grade painting centred on St. Ives to German Expressionism and works created in the aftermath of the first democratic elections in South Africa..  It includes a “spin” painting he made in collaboration with Damien Hirst, an altarpiece by the Renaissance master Tintoretto and works by 20th century Modern British masters like David Bomberg, Stanley Spencer, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff.  There is a painting by Jack B. Yeats entitled Sleep Sound.
    Bowie/Collector is a sale in three parts. It will begin with an evening sale of modern and contemporary art on November 10.  There  will be a day auction of art the following morning and a design sale that afternoon.  All the catalogues are online.
    (See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for July 14 and August 23, 2016)

    Willie Bester (born 1956) - What happened in the Western Cape? (£2,000-3,000)

    Willie Bester (born 1956) – What happened in the Western Cape? (£2,000-3,000)

    Damien Hirst with David Bowie  Beautiful, hallo, space boy painting 1995  (£250,000-350,000)

    Damien Hirst with David Bowie Beautiful, hallo, space boy painting 1995 (£250,000-350,000)

    Jacopo Robusti known as Jacopo Tintoretto and Studio - The Angel foretelling St. Catherine of Alexandria  of her martyrdom (£100,000-150,000)

    Jacopo Robusti known as Jacopo Tintoretto and Studio – The Angel foretelling St. Catherine of Alexandria of her martyrdom (£100,000-150,000)

    SOME LOTS TO CREATE INTERNATIONAL INTEREST AT FONSIE MEALY

    Sunday, November 6th, 2016
    A pair of Roman scenes of The Coliseum and the Pantheon are among a number of lots likely to create international interest at Fonsie Mealy’s two day Chatsworth fine art sale in Castlecomer on November 15 and 16.  The oils on canvas, in carved gilt wood frames, are estimated at 20,000-30,000. There are two stained glass panels from the Clarke Studios commissioned around 1900 by the Pierce family of Wexford for the portico of their home – King David and the Creation is estimated at 5,000-7,000 and a panel depicting the four provinces of Ireland is estimated at 1,000-1,500.

    Vintage barn finds include a 1914 Talbot Invincible (17,000-22,000) and a 1939 Vauxhall (3,500-5,000).  Both are in need of extensive restoration.  A brougham by Robson of Belfast is estimated at 4,000-5,000.

    The Coliseum - one of a pair of Roman oils on canvas (20,000-30,000)

    The Coliseum – one of a pair of Roman oils on canvas (20,000-30,000)  UPDATE: THIS  MADE 22,000 AT HAMMER

    A Brougham by Robsons of Belfast (4,000-5,000)

    A Brougham by Robsons of Belfast (4,000-5,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 6,250 AT HAMMER

    THE MONARCH OF THE GLEN AT CHRISTIE’S

    Sunday, November 6th, 2016
    Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, R.A. (London 1802-1873) The Monarch of the Glen. Courtesy Christie's Images Ltd., 2016

    Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, R.A. (London 1802-1873)
    The Monarch of the Glen. Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2016

    The Monarch of the Glen  by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, R.A. (1802-1873) will lead the Christie’s Old Master evening sale on  December 8.  This major highlight of Classic Week comes at the culmination of Christie’s 250th anniversary year.  The c1849-51 work will feature alongside important works by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Bernardo Bellotto and Edward Lear. The auction will mark the fourth occasion that The Monarch of the Glen has commanded Christie’s saleroom, having last been offered precisely a century ago, in 1916. The painting is one of the most celebrated works of British art. It was originally commissioned in 1849 for the Refreshment Room in the House of Lords.

    John Stainton, Deputy Chairman of Christie’s Old Master and British Paintings Department said: “Following this year’s record-breaking Old Master sales which include Rubens’s ‘Lot and his Daughters’ and, via private treaty, two Rembrandt Portraits and the iconic ‘Armada Portrait’, there is perhaps no more fitting a conclusion to our 250th anniversary than the return of Sir Edwin Landseer’s ‘The Monarch of the Glen’ to Christie’s King Street. The sales in 1884 and 1892, prompted Landseer to become known as the ‘king of the salerooms’ and in 2016 Landseer’s masterpiece will lead Christie’s December Classic Week.”

    UPDATE: THE PAINTING HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN FROM AUCTION. It is now the subject of a fundraising campaign by the National Galleries of Scotland. Diageo, which owns the work, has agreed to gift half the £8 million value, the NGS has until mid March to raise the remaining £4 million

    CHINA IN PRINT AND ON PAPER AT SOTHEBY’S

    Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016

    Rare Chinese and European books, maps, photographs and manuscripts will come up at Sotheby’s in London on November 7, during the annual Asian Art in London from November 3-12.  China in Print and on Paper reveals the rich history of cartography, exploration, trade and diplomacy between China and the West for over half a millennium.  At the heart of the auction are two magnificent single-owner collections formed over many years by private collectors Bernard Hanotiau in Belgium, and Floyd Sully in Canada.  The Hanotiau library reveals the rich history of exploration and cultural and political exchange between China and the West from the fifteenth to twentieth century in over 180 lots of books, atlases and early photographs. The Sully collection comprises over fifty lots of rare maps, photographs, illustrated texts, drawings and watercolours. Star lots include the  “Blue Map” created during the Qing dynast which is estimated at £80,000-120,000.

    The Blue Map (£80,000-120,000.

    The Blue Map (£80,000-120,000.

    One of the first European maps of Beijing made in 1765 by Joseph Nicholas de L'Isle (£2,500-3,500)

    One of the first European maps of Beijing made in 1765 by Joseph Nicholas de L’Isle (£2,500-3,500)

    MONET, PICASSO AND KANDINSKY TO LEAD CHRISTIE’S NEW YORK SALE

    Tuesday, November 1st, 2016

    Monet, Picasso and Kandinsky will lead Christie’s auction of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York on November 16.   The evening sale of 49 works by the major artists of the era is expected to achieve more than $200 million.

    Brooke Lampley, Christie’s Head of Impressionist and Modern Art, New York, remarked: “This sale constitutes an exceptional line-up of masterpieces and fresh to market gems perfectly suited to collectors’ taste. From Monet to Kandinsky, Cézanne to Matisse, and a great range of works by Picasso, all of the sought after artists of the period are well represented in this sale, with offerings at every price level.”

    Chaim Soutine - Le garçon d'etage ($6-9 million. Courtesy Christie's Images Lt.d, 2016.

    Chaim Soutine – Le garçon d’etage ($6-9 million. Courtesy Christie’s Images Lt.d, 2016.  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $6,519,500

    Claude Monet - Meule (Grainstack) Courtesy Christie's Images Ltd., 2016

    Claude Monet – Meule (Grainstack) Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2016  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $81,447,500