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    BOWIE’S FLYING SAUCERS AT WHYTE’S ART SALE

    Monday, May 31st, 2021

    David Bowie had a lifelong obsession with flying saucers. He claimed to have seen three from Hampstead Heath when he was a child. This artwork, which comes up at Whyte’s Irish and International art sale this evening, was originally created in New York in November 1974 during his Stateside Diamond Dogs Tour. The printed version and installation was first shown at the Biennale di Firenze Art Show in September 1996.

    DAVID BOWIE (1947-2016) – SAUCER II, 1996 (2,000-3,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,200 AT HAMMER

    HISTORICAL ADVERTISING MATERIAL AT SHEPPARDS AUCTION

    Sunday, May 30th, 2021

    Historical Irish advertising material assembled over 40 years by  a private collector in the south east will come under the hammer at a two day sale by Sheppards in Durrow on June 10 and 11.  They mark the changes over the years from 1880 to 1990 with everything from a c1890 Gouldings Manures Clock to a fez wearing turkey on a c1962 Aer Lingus ad encouraging people to send their turkey gift by air.   Believe it or not Aer Lingus an annual week long airlift of Irish turkeys to London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff and Bristol.There is a rare Art Deco poster from around 1925 for Craven A cigarettes designed by Jean d’Ylen (1886-1938), a French Impressionist and Modern artist.  You could make it a Merry Christmas with Tayto or travel to Australia  via The Cape. Another rarity is the Persses Galway Irish Whiskey from the Nun’s Island distillery which closed in 1908, An 1896 ad for an Albionette oil stove is by Dudley Hardy (1867-1922), the poster artist credited with pioneering the British commercial art style.

    A Dudley Hardy designed ad from 1896. UPDATE: THIS MADE 240 AT HAMMER

    A VIRTUAL ANTIQUE FAIR IN IRELAND THIS WEEKEND

    Saturday, May 29th, 2021

    THIS Georgian oak tilt top table, priced at just €195, is at Barry and Fiona O’Leary’s stand at the Hibernian Antique Fairs virtual fair this weekend. The link to the online fair is hibernianantiques.ie/fairs/9

    ART SALES AT WHYTE’S AND ADAMS IN DUBLIN NEXT WEEK

    Saturday, May 29th, 2021
    Yellow Red (1994), an etching 18/30 by Sean Scully at Whyte’s. UPDATE: THIS MADE 7,000 AT HAMMER

    Encompassing everything from genre paintings, still life, abstract art, landscapes and Saint Gobnait to an original copy of the Irish Proclamation and a large bronze plaque made for An Tostal in 1953 the art sales at Whyte’s on Monday and Adams next Wednesday are brimful of interest. Given that collectors have adjusted remarkably well to the online model it seems safe to predict that there will be no shortage of competitive bidding for the 160 works on offer at Whyte’s and the 149 at Adams.  In a welcome move towards normality the easing of Covid restrictions allows viewing for these sales by appointment. Online or in person there is much to see and appreciate.  Whyte’s kicks off online on May 31 at 6 pm.  Sean Keating painted his friend Harry Clarke thinking about St. Gobnait on the Aran Islands while working on a commission for his series of eleven windows at the Honan Chapel in Cork.  The acclaimed windows were installed in 1916. Gobnait is traditionally associated with Ballyvourney in Co. Cork and with the Aran Islands.  The resultant oil painting by Keating –  exhibited at the RHA in 1918 – is lot 45 at Whyte’s, with an estimate of €50,000-€70,000.Along with Yeats and Keating, Whyte’s has work by artists including Cedil Maguire, Nathaniel Hone, Walter Osborne, Charlotte MacCausland, Harry Kernoff, Patrick Leonard, William Leech, Mary Swanzy, Maurice MacGonigal, Dan O’Neill, Tony O’Malley, Louis le Brocquy, Sean Scully, Donald Teskey and many others.  A bronze An Tostal commemorative plaque celebrating Irish life by the sculptor Gabriel Hayes (1909-1978) is estimated at €3,000-€4,000 and there are prints by Bob Dylan and David Bowie with estimates from €1,200 to €3,000.

    Over the Estuary  by John Shinnors at James Adam. UPDATE: THIS MADE 30,000 AT HAMMER

    Original copies of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic are always much sought after.  The one at Adams next Wednesday evening, signed by the printer Christopher Brady and obtained in Sackville St. on Easter Monday, 1916, has an estimate of €150,000. The sky and sea are made of blues, blacks and purples in William Croziers’ structural landscape The Inlet which Adams estimate at €20,000-€30,000.  There is a more traditional approach in Cottages in Achill by Paul Henry (€140,000-€160,000) while the acclaimed Limerick artist John Shinnors took inspiration from the River Shannon for his magnificent and dynamic oil on canvas diptych Over the Estuary (€30,000-€50,000). Camille Souters’ Cycling to Chioggia, a little town south of Venice, is a memory painting from 1961 that was once in the collection of Sir Basil Goulding. It is estimated at €15,000-€25,000.  Another memory jogger is an Elkington and Co. bronze of Oliver Goldsmith after John Henry Foley RA RHA (1818-1874).  The estimate here is €3,000-€4,000. In a Dublin Waxworks by Jack B Yeats (€60,000-€100,000) once in the collection of the late Garech Browne at Luggala, recalls a popular attraction in the capital until it was burnt down during the 1916 Rising.

    CHRISTIE’S DESIGN SALES IN NEW YORK TOTAL $17.4 MILLION

    Friday, May 28th, 2021
    JEAN ROYÈRE (1902-1981) ‘OURS POLAIRE’ SOFA, CIRCA 1950 in ash, beech with velvet upholstery made  $1,230,000. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2021

    Three live sales of Design at Christie’s in New York totalled $17,436,000, including Paris in New York: A Private Collection of Royère, Vautrin, JouveTiffany and Design. With very strong, spirited global cross-category bidding, these outstanding results demonstrated the strength and depth of the Design market. There was global participation with bidders from 28 countries across five continents. Hammer prices were 178% above the low estimate. The first dedicated various owner sale of works by Tiffany Studios held at Christie’s since 2014 brought in $3,903,375.

    TIFFANY STUDIOS LANDSCAPE WINDOW WITH MAGNOLIAS, HYDRANGEAS AND AZALEAS, CIRCA 1915 made $1,470,000. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2021

    GROUNDBREAKING MALE FORM SALE AT BONHAMS

    Thursday, May 27th, 2021
    ERIC HENRI KENNINGTON (1888-1960) An Infantryman. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £14,000

    The first-ever sale by an international auction house dedicated exclusively to a celebration of the male form in art takes place at Bonhams in London on June 16. It ranges from Antiquities and Old Master painting to sculpture and decorative arts, from contemporary art to photography.

    The sale is curated by Bonhams Greek Art Specialist Anastasia Orfanidou and Bonhams Head of Books and Manuscripts, Matthew Haley, who said: “This exciting new concept challenges a market that has traditionally been centred around the western concept of the male gaze. It will explore how women look at men and how men look at other men, introducing a fresh context and platform that will spark new discussions on an historically unspoken market.”

    Among the highlights is Atlas Beach by Patrick Hennessy (Irish, 1915-1980) which depicts the terrace of well-known gay bar The Charles Atlas Beach Bar, which overlooks Tangier City Beach, Morocco. It is estimated at £5,000-£7,000. 

    Atlas Beach by Patrick Hennessy. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £9,562

    NEW WORK BY EILIS O’CONNELL AT SOLOMON GALLERY

    Thursday, May 27th, 2021

    Materials Matter is the title of a new show by Eilis O’Connell RHA, one of Ireland’s leading artists, which opens at the Solomon Gallery in Dublin today and runs until June 19. The exhibition presents new sculpture and drawing made before and during the Covid pandemic, combining sculpture made in collaboration with skilled stone carvers in Pietrasanta, Italy and a range of self contained innovative work created within the limitations of lockdown. Using materials such as steel, bronze, stone and new bio resins, O’Connell explores different material properties to make hybrid organic geometric forms that she carves or constructs by hand. 

    Eilis O’Connell – Double Void, Carrara marble, edition of 3

    CHRISTIE’S FACILITATES ACQUISITION OF STEPHEN HAWKING PAPERS

    Thursday, May 27th, 2021

    A treasure trove of archive papers and personal objects belonging to the late Professor Stephen Hawking has been acquired by two leading UK cultural institutions, facilitated through Christie’s Heritage and Taxation Advisory Service.

    Following an Acceptance In Lieu (AIL) agreement between the Hawking Estate and the UK Government the archive of Professor Stephen Hawking’s scientific and personal papers will remain in Cambridge at the University Library. The entire contents of Hawking’s office will be preserved as part of the Science Museum Group Collection, with selected highlights going on display at the Science Museum in 2022.

    Professor Hawking’s archive contains letters dating from 1944-2008, a first draft of A Brief History of Time, film and tv scripts and autograph scientific manuscripts from the early phase of his career. There is a large collection of photographs, papers and correspondence with Popes, US Presidents and leading scientists of the age, including Nobel Prize winners Kip Thorne and Roger Penrose. The archive will be made available to current and future generations of scientists continuing his ground-breaking work in theoretical physics, and will provide future biographers and science historians with an extraordinary gateway and insight into Hawking’s life and work.

    JAGGER’S JACKETS BY L’WREN SCOTT AT CHRISTIE’S

    Wednesday, May 26th, 2021

    These bespoke stage jackets designed by L’Wren Scott for her partner Mick Jagger will highlight an online sale at Christie’s from June 9-July 1. The L’Wren Scott Collection sale comprises 55 curated lots designed between 2006 and 2014. The ‘glamouflage’ jacket on the left was worn by Mick Jagger during the Rolling Stones’ headline performance at Glastonbury in 2013. The Butterfly jacket on the right was worn during the celebrated Hyde Park concert, part of the Rolling Stones’ ‘50 & Counting’ live tour in 2013. Jagger wore it while performing ‘Miss You’, when large screens surrounding the Hyde Park stage showed blue butterflies, identical to those on his jacket, fluttering skywards as a tribute to the late Brian Jones, reminiscent of their 1969 Hyde Park concert when white butterflies were released into the sky in his honour. The jackets are estimated at £20,000-£30,000 each.

    O’DONOGHUE’S RETURN OF ULYSSES AT WHYTE’S

    Wednesday, May 26th, 2021

    The Return of Ulysses by Hughie O’Donoghue comes up as lot 90 at Whyte’s Irish and International art sale online in Dublin on May 31. It dates to 2006/7, two years before the Irish Museum of Modern Art celebrated this acclaimed artist with a major exhibition of 27 works. O’Donoghue is now represented by the prestigious Marlborough Gallery in London. This work is estimated at €8,000-€12,000. UPDATE: THIS MADE 8,500 AT HAMMER.