Contents from Westport House, Luttrelstown Castle, Castle Durrow and Malahide Castle are among the lots at Sheppards two days sale Durrow next Tuesday and Wednesday. More than 1,200 lots will come under the hammer at auctions scheduled to begin at 10.30 am and 2 pm on Tuesday and Wednesday. There is a French ormolu corner cabinet from Westport House, a brass lantern from Luttrelstown Castle, a 19th century tapestry from Malahide Castle with lurchers and the castle in the background and a pair of William IV ebony curtain poles from Castle Durrow. Among the other lots from these sources are a pair of Irish mahogany side tables, a 19th century pine farmhouse table, an 18th century blunderbuss by Rigby of Dublin (3,000-5,000), a 17th century Italian School oil of The Last Supper, a pair of bronze Egyptian figures by Emile Louis Picault (1833-1915) and a 19th century classical urn.
One of a pair of Irish mahogany side tables UPDATE: THIS LOT MADE 4,400 AT HAMMER
Container Ship is the title of this work by Tom Roche. It is one of the works on show at the Dublin Painting and Sketching Club exhibition at CHQ, Customs House Quay, Dublin from today until May 12. One of the country’s largest exhibitions features around 90 artists showing 170 artworks. The theme of this years show is The Port and a number of member artists have created paintings with scenes of the Dublin Port and docklands. Works in oil, watercolour, pastel, ink, drawings, lithographs and prints are on offer at prices from 250 to 4,000. The Club was founded in October 1874 by artists who included Alfred Grey RHA, Alexander Williams RHA, Nathaniel Hone, John Butler Yeats, Walter Osborne and author Bram Stoker.
Mid Century Modern is the title of the auction at James Adam in Dublin at 6 pm on April 30. This is a sale of 123 lots of 20th century furniture, lighting, glass, mirrors, sculpture and art with work by Nevill Johnson, Felim Egan, John Shinnors, Alice Maher, Sean Scully, Mark Francis and others. The catalogue is online.
Cecil King (1921-1986) Nexus II UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,000 AT HAMMEREAMES SOFT PAD OFFICE CHAIR, by Vitra UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 1,400
Viewing gets underway in Dublin today for Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish and International art evening auction at the RDS on April 29. This sale has already been on view in New York, London and Cork. The catalogue lists 161 lots and is online. Here is a selection:
(See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for April 18 and April 2, 2018)
THOMAS ROBERTS (1748-1778) The Weir in Lucan House, Demesne (40,000-60,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 46,000 AT HAMMERFRANCIS BACON (1909-1992) Second Version of Painting 1946 (1971) (10,000-15,000) LITHOGRAPH NUMBER 101 OF 150. UPDATE: THIS MADE 11,000 AT HAMMERJOHN BEHAN (B.1938) The Emigrants (1,750-2,500) UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,100 AT HAMMER
The Great Irish Interiors auction at Sheppards in Durrow on April 30 and May 1 will see more than 1,200 lots come under the hammer. There is a very good across the board selection at all price levels. There is garden furniture and statuary, art, silver, antique furniture, Oriental porcelain, brassware and a variety of collectibles. Adding even more interest is the fact that the sale will include lots from Westport House, Luttrellstown Castle, Castle Durrow and Malahide Castle. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:
Panelling from the Brittanic – sister ship of Titanic – will come up at auction in Killenard, Co. Laois on May 1 and 2. Rediscovered after their use in a Dublin city-centre cinema until 1972, both the first-class lounge and the second-class library panels are expected to generate international interest at the sale by Niall Mullen antiques at The Heritage golf resort.
OAK PANELLING FROM BRITANNIC UPDATE: THE PANELLING SOLD FOR A COMBINED TOTAL OF 366,000 – EACH SET SOLD FOR 183,000.
Britannic’s yard number, S-433, was one of the most significant identifying factors in these panels. The same number, 433, is to be the lot number for the panelling. Lot 433 is the second-class library, panelled and framed in maple, handsomely carved in a Colonial Adams-style design and includes a magnificent mahogany bar fronted with copper with a guiding price of €200,000 – €300,000. Lot 433a is the first-class lounge panelling, framed in richly carved polished oak and carved in Louis XV style, with a guiding price of €250,000 – €350,000.
They were designed by Arthur Durand, who was heavily involved in all three Olympic Class liners and who had also worked on the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Launched in 1914, the Britannic was intended to be superior to her twin the Titanic, which sank in 1912. During World War I the ship was requisitioned as a hospital ship and had the fittings removed. It hit a mine and sank in the Aegean Sea in 1916. The Britannic’s stored luxurious furniture and fittings were auctioned in Belfast in 1919.
The panels will come up on May 1 when the first 600 of 1,500 lots in total will come under the hammer. The sale will also include contents from the Merrion, Burlington and Shelbourne Hotels in Dublin, an Anglo Indian curiosity cabinet originally at Lissadell House, maritime lots and items from embassies in Dublin.
Works from the SOR Rusche collection, including this landscape with a view of Leiden, will come up at Sotheby’s Old Masters May sale on May 8. More will feature in an online sale on May 10, at Sotheby’s Old Masters day sale in London on July 4 and in another online auction next October.
Spurred by the ethos ‘the best of the smallest’, four generations of the Rusche family built a collection of works by artists, many of whom, despite being held in high esteem in their day, were subsequently overshadowed by some of the biggest names in art history. A total of 225 works are to be sold across various auctions at Sotheby’s thisyear.
Anthonie Jansz. van der Croos, Landscape with a view of Leiden £20,000 – 30,000
Away from bohemian Montmartre The Irish and American Bar on the Rue Royale on Paris’ upscale Right Bank was Toulouse-Lautrec’s favourite haunt. This was the setting for a poster advertising the American journal, The Chap Book. An 1895 lithograph in colours by Toulouse Lautrec of The Chap Book comes up at Sotheby’s prints and multiples day sale in New York on April 30. From a private collection in Chicago it is estimated at $20,000-30,000.
HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC 1864 – 1901 IRISH AND AMERICAN BAR, RUE ROYALE – THE CHAP BOOK
The Birth of Modernism in Irish Art 1920-1960 is the title of an exhibition running at the State Apartment Galleries in Dublin Castle until August 18. In his catalogue commentary curator David Britton notes that it took time before the influence of early 20th century advances in art reached these shores. With the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922 the culturally conservative government and middle class catholics favoured art depicting west of Ireland cottages (Paul Henry), Irish agricultural workers (Sean Keating) or people at leisure as shown by William Conor or James Humbert Craig. The main exponents of Surrealism were Colin Middleton and Nevill Johnson. Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone were the first artists to promote pure Cubism in Ireland, but other Irish artists like May Guinness and Mary Swanzy had studied in Paris before Jellett and Hone’s arrival there. When Jellett first exhibited pure abstract work in 1923 there was a hostile review by the artist/poet George Russell. In 1943 Jellett was instrumental along with le Brocquy, Norah McGuinness, Jack Hanlon and others in organising the first Irish Exhibition of Living Art. Dublin Castle is one of the leading public sites of the OPW. Visitor numbers have been rising and reached 440,000 last year.
Ballyconneely in Connemara is the venue for an Easter Sunday art and antique auction at 2 pm tomorrow. Dolan’s art auction house will offer nearly 400 lots at a sale timed to coincide with the busy Bank Holiday weekend in the west of Ireland. Dolan’s holiday auctions in Connemara are always crowd pullers and this one features art by Kenneth Webb, Hughie O’Donoghue, Edward Delaney, Sean Keating, Harry Kernoff, Sean McSweeney, George Campbell, Norah McGuinness, Tony O’Malley, Charles Harper, Mark O’Neill, Carina Scott, Arthur Maderson and many more.
There are some vintage toy cars by makers like Triang and Dinky, a Hornby train set, a set of three antique ebony elephants with ivory tusks, ebonised and inlaid cabinets, antique furniture including easy chairs, dining chairs, a sofa table, long case clocks, rugs, porcelain, silver and glass. Estimates for the art on offer range from a couple of hundred euro to 12,500, the top estimate for an orange cat tapestry by Graham Knuttel. This is inscribed “Tapisserie D’Aubusson Felletin” and the estimate is 7,500-12,500.
Brooks Emporium, Baggot St. Lower by John BrobbelStanding Figures by Edward Delaney
