A Tale of the Sea by Walter Osborne made a hammer price of €315,000 at Whyte’s in Dublin this evening in a sale where no less than six works sailed past the €100,000 barrier at hammer. Three of them, The Blue Hills of Connemara (€240,000), The Stony Fields of Kerry (€200,000) and Killary Bay, Connemara (€140,000), were by Paul Henry. Sculling by Jack B. Yeats made €190,000 and Image of Picasso by Louis le Brocquy made €140,000. Those six works alone realised a hammer total of 1.225 million in an evening with strong prices and competitive bidding for many of the artworks on offer.
The overall sale total was 2.5 million and the auction was 85% sold by lot.
