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  • Archive for December, 2019

    A SCULLY HIGHLIGHT AT PARIS ART SALE

    Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019

    A Sean Scully work from a private collection in Paris comes up at Sotheby’s Art Contemporain day sale on December 5. The pastel on paper 5.27.91 is estimated at 150,000-200,000 euro. It was previously at the Mayor Rowan Gallery in New York.

    UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 200,000

    JEWELLERY AND DIAMONDS AT JAMES ADAM

    Monday, December 2nd, 2019

    The catalogue for the James Adam evening sale of fine jewellery and watches on December 3 features 246 lots. Estimates range from 250 euro to 200,000 euro, the high estimate for a 6.74 carat rectangular cut diamond ring. A c1925 Art Deco diamond bracelet is estimated at 7,000-8,000, a diamond line bracelet by Boodles has an estimate of 4,000-5,000, a c1885 Faberge diamond and gold brooch is estimated at 3,000-4,000 and a pair of diamond ear studs is estimated at 50,000-60,000.

    A DIAMOND AND CHRYSOPRASE ‘ROSE DE NOëL’ BROOCH, BY VAN CLEEF & ARPELS, CIRCA 1980. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    1831 VIEW OF GOUGANE BARRA

    Monday, December 2nd, 2019

    This 1831 view of Gougane Barra in Co. Cork by George Petrie is among the works displayed by Guy Peppiatt. Fine Art during London Art Week the showcase of London’s leading galleries in Mayfair and St. James which runs from December 1-6. The watercolour heightened with touches of body colour is indistinctly signed and dated. 

    ORPEN PORTRAIT OF FIRST WOMAN TO ENTER TOMB OF KING TUT

    Sunday, December 1st, 2019

    THIS portrait of Lady Evelyn Herbert by Sir William Orpen comes up at Sotheby’s sale of Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite and British Impressionist art in London on December 10.  She was the only daughter of the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, accompanied him to Egypt on several occasions and had the distinction of being the first woman to enter the antechamber of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in November 1922.  Despite the supposed Curse of Tutankhamun, fuelled in part by her father’s tragic death in 1923 in Cairo as a result of a mosquito bite, she lived to the ripe old age of 79 and died without incident in January 1980.  The portrait is estimated at £40,000-60,000.