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    CORK ANTIQUE FAIR THIS WEEKEND

    Friday, January 31st, 2020

    The Cork Antiques Fair at the Clayton Silver Springs Hotel on February 2 marks 30 years of this fair in Cork. Organised by Hibernian Antiques Fairs this is always a crowd puller. Dealers from around Ireland will attend with everything from antique furniture, Irish art, silver, jewellery, vintage fashion and one off collectibles. Cork based stamp dealer Padraig O’Shea of Raven Stamps has offered an interesting illustration as follows:

    The block of Irish stamps on the left is worth about five euro, the block on right about 2,500. The right has no centre perforations.

    BIG ART NAMES AT CHRISTIE’S AUCTIONS

    Thursday, January 30th, 2020

    Tamara de Lempicka, Alberto Giacometti, Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali are among the big names due to come under the hammer at Christies in London on February 5. The Impressionist and Modern evening auction will be followed by The Art of the Surreal, together launching 20th century at Christie’s. de Lempicka’s Portrait de Marjorie Ferry from 1932 and Giacometti’s Trois hommes qui march from 1948, each estimated at £8-12 million, will highlight the first of the sales. There is a similar estimate on Magritte’s A la rencontre du plaisir from 1962. It is one of seven works by the artist in the auction.

    Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)  Trois hommes qui marchent (Grand plateau) . UPDATE: THIS MADE £11.2 MILLION

    BERLIN PAINTING BY KIRCHNER AT SOTHEBY’S

    Wednesday, January 29th, 2020

    Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Akt vor dem Spiegel (Nude at the Mirror) comes up at Sotheby’s Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist art evening sale in London on February 4 with an estimate of £3-5 million. This is a powerful example of Kirchner’s painting from the time he lived in Berlin, where he moved from Dresden in 1911 together with other Die Brücke members including Erich Heckel and Max Pechstein, setting up a studio in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. With its bold colouration and avant-garde approach to a traditional subject-matter, the work embodies the values proclaimed in Die Brücke programme, penned by Kirchner in 1906: ‘With faith in progress and in a new generation of creators and spectators we call together all youth. […] As youth, we carry the future and want to create for ourselves freedom of life and of movement against the long established older forces”.

    ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER
    AKT VOR DEM SPIEGEL (NUDE AT THE MIRROR) . UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    MAKING COLLECTING CONTEMPORARY ART EASY

    Tuesday, January 28th, 2020

    In a bid to make collecting contemporary art easier on all pockets Christie’s in New York has launched its most accessible sale yet. Christie’s 100 is an online-only sale of nearly 100 lots, many with starting bids of $100. Assembled by the New York Post-War and Contemporary Art department it includes works by both emerging and established artists. Collectible works by Yayoi Kusama, KAWS and Robert Indiana are offered alongside photographs by Ryan McGinley and Vera Lutter and works on paper by Yves Tinguely, Barnaby Furnas and Richard Pettibone. Bidding is from January 28 – February 5.

    LEFT: Leo Gabin, Mother’s Day Rumble, 2013 ($4,000 – 6,000 RIGHT: Ryan McGinley, Untitled (Morrissey 15) 2006 ($2,000-3,000

    RODERIC O’CONOR AT SOTHEBY’S IN NEW YORK

    Monday, January 27th, 2020

    BREEZE by Roderic O’Conor will come up at Sotheby’s sale of 19th century European art in New York on January 31. The 1898 seascape is from the collection of J.E. Safra. It is estimated at $70,000-100,000.

    RODERIC O’CONOR – BREEZE . UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    ALI HIGHLIGHTS WARHOL’S ATHLETES AT CHRISTIE’S

    Monday, January 27th, 2020

    Andy Warhol’s ‘Athletes’, ten multicoloured portraits of athletes, is highlighted by Muhammad Ali (1977) come up at Christie’s Post War and Contemporary art evening auction in London on February 12. From the collection of Richard L. Weisman Ali is estimated at £3-5 million. The seminal series is presented alongside Flowers (1964) (£1-1.5 million) which is offered as part of ‘Art for Future: Selected Works from the UniCredit Group’. The sale will include Warhol’s  Knives (1982) and Brillo Soap Pads Box (1964) originally held in the collection of Leo Castelli.

    The Post War and Contemporary art day auction takes place on February 13 and and online only sale will open for bidding from February 7-18.

    Andy Warhol, Muhammad Ali, 1977 . UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £4.9 MILLION

    ADAMS SEEKS TREASURE THROUGHOUT IRELAND

    Saturday, January 25th, 2020

    Following a highly successful year in 2019 the team of specialists at James Adam in Dublin is embarking on a nationwide valuation tour next week.  They will offer professional and discreet appraisals and hopefully pick up some interesting lots for sales in 2020. Adams say that the results achieved last year confirm that now is a good time to sell at auction in Ireland.  Their upcoming spring summer sales will range from fine art and period interiors to Important Irish Art, jewellery and watches, 20th century furniture and design, the library sale and historical document and artefacts.  Expert valuers will be in Belfast on Monday, Derry on Tuesday, Galway on Wednesday, Limerick on Thursday, Killarney on Friday, Kilkenny on this day week and Cork on February 2.  Appointments can be made by e-mail to valuations@adams.ie

    This c1955 diamond riviere necklace by Mauboussin sold for a hammer price of €150,000 at James Adam in September.

    THE NEW YORK WINTER SHOW STARTS TODAY

    Friday, January 24th, 2020

    This New York pier table dates to 1815 and will be on display at the Winter Show which opens at the Park Avenue Armory in New York today. The table is attributed to Duncan Phyfe and will be exhibited by Bernard and S Dean Levy. Objects from antiquity to the present will be on display at the leading art, antiques and design fair in the US. The 66th edition of this prestigious show brings together 72 of the world’s leading experts in fine and decorative arts. It runs until February 2.

    AFFORDABLE ART AT MORGAN O’DRISCOLL SALE

    Thursday, January 23rd, 2020

    The latest ‘Off the Wall’ affordable Irish art auction by Morgan O’Driscoll runs until the evening of January 27. There are 439 lots on offer with work by a variety of artists including Julian Opie, Norman McCaig, Estella Solomons, Colin Middleton, Graham Knuttel, John Morris, Henry McGrane and many more. The catalogue is online.

    Julian Opie (b.1958) Imagine You Can Order These Green (1999)
    lithograph – published by the artist in 1999 . UPDATE: THIS MADE 500 AT HAMMER

    DE STIJL DESIGN AT TEFAF MAASTRICHT

    Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020

    The design created by Theo van Doesburg (1883 -1931) for the historical Café L’Aubette building, at the Place Kléber in Strasborg would become one of the most iconic works of De Stijl. It will feature at Galerie Gmurzynska (Stand 404), part of TEFAF Modern Art at TEFAF Maastricht which runs from March 7 – 15. The colour design for the ceiling and three walls of the building, as part of a conversion into a complex of restaurants, bars, caberet and cine-dancing hall, was commissioned i 1926. van Doesburg worked with Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber Arp to create the design, still on display today.

    Color design for ceiling and three walls for the Café L’Aubette ciné-dancing wallpainting
    in Strasburg, gouache on paperboard, 1926-1927, by Theo van Doesburg (1883 – 1931). Image courtesy Galerie Gmurzynska