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    HIGH SUMMER GARDEN SALE BY VICTOR MEE

    Monday, August 2nd, 2021

    From oak barrels with metal banding to sundials, cast iron seats to marble turtles the summer sale online by Victor Mee in Co. Cavan on August 4 offers a selection of no less than 565 lots to  enhance and add interest to any garden, large or small.   There is sandstone wall capping, a moulded stone fountain and even a pair of rattan rocking chairs on a metal base. Garden auctions have become more numerous and popular, especially over the last 18 months when so many of us have been unwittingly stuck at home.  So if you think a cast iron eagle or a moulded stone pair of lions is just what you need then this sale is for you.  There are tables, chairs, limestone troughs, planters,  pine posts, terracotta planters, Lutyens style benches, a life size model of a raptor in resin, staddle stones and a 19th century cast iron arch in the form of branches.  The catalogue is online.

    19th century cast iron arch in the form of a branch. UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,400 AT HAMMER

    CUTTING EDGE PIECE BY ACCLAIMED IRISH SCULPTOR

    Monday, August 2nd, 2021

    This volatile and brilliant piece by acclaimed artist Maud Cotter is titled Without Stilling. The inner edge is geometric and beautiful, the outer edge grasps at an unknowable future, within its folds it contains the energy of a lightly coiled spring. Made of Finnish birch ply – each piece hand cut, made wet and folded where necessary – this remarkable artwork speaks to the nature of form. It is part of Cotter’s solo exhibition entitled “a consequence of – a dappled world”  at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin until August 8.  It is definitely easier to make sense of a landscape or a portrait bust than abstraction. Contemporary art and sculpture is challenging. If you are unsure about abstraction just take a long look and seek a response within yourself.  There is a clue in the exhibition title inspired by the Gerald Manley Hopkins poem Pied Beauty.  

    YOUGHAL, CO. CORK BY NORAH McGUINNESS AT ONLINE SALE

    Sunday, August 1st, 2021
    Youghal, Co. Cork by Norah McGuinness. UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,800 AT HAMMER

    The Cubist influence is apparent in Norah McGuinness’s painting of Youghal, Co. Cork which comes up as lot number 2 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s online sale next Tuesday evening.  The medium is gouache, the painting measures 14″ x 18.3″ and it is estimated at €1,500-€2,500. Born in Co. Londonderry Norah McGuinness studied at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and Chelsea Polytechnic. She worked in Dublin as an illustrator and stage designer in the 1920’s and went to Paris on the advice of Mainie Jellett in 1929 to study with Andre Lhote.  In the 1930’s McGuinness lived and worked in London and New York before returning to Ireland in 1939 and settling in Dublin.  Associated in Ireland with the modern movement in Ireland she  helped found the Irish Exhibition of Living Art.

    This high summer season sale of 256 lots runs until next Tuesday evening (August 3).   From an etching by Sean Scully to a landscape by James Arthur O’Connor the choice is wide and designed to suit all tastes. A brooding Co. Down landscape by Dan O’Neill stands in sharp contrast to a photo realist work by Eileen Meagher of the Erriff River at Delphi in Co. Mayo. There is work by Kenneth Webb, Pauline Bewick, Patrick Scott, Percy French, Mark O’Neill, Barrie Cooke, Mildred Anne Butler and many more acclaimed Irish artists and sculptors.