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This Irish wake table comes up as lot 440 at Victor Mee’s decorative interiors sale which takes place on February 2 and 3. It is estimated at 2,000-4,000. The auction of 1,272 lots kicks off at 5.30 pm on February 2. It includes a wide range of seating in a variety of styles, antique furniture, art and a good selection of collectibles and curiousities.
THE 1916 Rising service medal awarded to Kathleen Lynn sold for a hammer price of 58,000 at Mullen’s Collector’s Cabinet sale today. It was awarded for her service to the Irish Citizen Army, City Hall Garrison and had been estimated at 20,000-30,000. Dr. Lynn gifted the medal to her cousin George Llewellyn Wynne and it was passed on by descent.
The daughter of a Co. Mayo Church of Ireland rector, her upbringing was conservatively Protestant and Unionist but,
like her distant cousin Constance Markievicz, Lynn became politically radicalised through her exposure to the poverty of Dublin’s slums while she studied medicine. She became a suffragette and, influenced by the writings of James Connolly, joined the Irish Citizen Army as Chief Medical Officer. Arrested and imprisoned and was one of only six women to be deported to British jails for their part in the Rising. Following her release she was appointed vice-president of Sinn Fein and was on the run for much of the War of Independence.
(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for January 15, 2022)
Joni Mitchell, who has joined Neil Young in asking for her music to be removed from Spotify over Covid misinformation concerns, has always thought of herself as a painter derailed by circumstances. “I sing my sorrow and I paint my joy” she said once. An artists proof by the singer songwriter of an original oil painting of Jimi Hendrix is one of many highly collectible highlights at Julien’s MusiCares charity relief auction live and online from Hollywood on January 30. Signed and framed by the writer of global hits like Both Sides Now, Big Yellow Taxi and Woodstock, it is estimated at $2,000-$4,000.
Christ & His Cousin: Renaissance Rediscoveries opens today at the National Gallery of Ireland. The exhibition showcases eight little-known restored sixteenth-century Italian paintings. For over a decade, the Gallery’s head of conservation Simone Mancini has carefully treated these paintings to reveal quality that was previously unrecognised. Exploring natural portrayals of human behaviour, such as warm and playful moments between the infants and the Madonna, these paintings tell the story of an imaginary encounter between a young Christ and his cousin, a meeting not referenced in the bible. According to the Bible, the two cousins did not meet until later in life, however, their relationship as children was described in later texts which proved incredibly popular and inspired many Italian artists to represent the two infant cousins in their works during the Renaissance period. Tying in with the exhibition, the paintings will be accompanied by four rare volumes drawn from the Gallery’s Library & Archives, some of which were instrumental in defining the development of sixteenth-century art. The exhibition runs until May 8.
There is furniture and jewellery to choose from at Hegarty’s live online auction from Bandon 2 pm on January 30. A late 18th century Georgian demi lune tea table has an appealing satinwood cross banded top and a flame mahogany frieze. It is estimated at €800-€900. An 18 carat white gold Ceylon sapphire and diamond cluster ring might be just the thing for Valentine’s Day but it does not come cheap. The sapphire weighs 4.72 carats and the ring is estimated at €12,000-€13,000. Among the collectibles on offer is a Cork silver salt spoon (€100-€200) and there are a number of items made by Tiffany including a 14 carat yellow gold compartmented pill box (€250-€450). The catalogue is online.
The Man of Sorrows by Botticelli sold for $45.5 million at Sotheby’s in New York on January 27. The hammer price was $39.3 million, just under the estimate of around $40 million. From an American collection the work had last changed hands in 1963 for £10,000. Works by Botticelli (about 1445-1510), best known for his various portraits of Madonna and Child, The Birth of Venus and Primavera, rarely appear on the auction market. The Man of Sorrows is one of only four of his late works known to be in private hands according to Sotheby’s.
(See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for October 8, 2021 and January 2, 2022)
This oil on canvas by Gwen O’Dowd is entitled Claddagh 14 and comes up at the James Adam sale of the Jacqueline Stanley and Campbell Bruce collection. It is estimated at 700-1,000. Viewing for this timed online art sale gets underway in Dublin today and continues over the weekend and on Monday. Bidding is now open and it will begin to close from 1 pm on Tuesday, February 1.
THIS six band diamond cluster ring comes up as lot 62 at O’Reilly’s timed online sale of jewellery, watches and silver which runs until January 28. It is estimated at 1,000-1,400. There is a big selection of 547 lots on offer from the Francis St., Dublin auction house and the sale starts to close from 1 pm on January 28.
The Study by Arthur Armstrong comes up at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current online sale of Irish art which runs until January 31. The oil on canvas measuring 13.6″ x 10.6″ is estimated at 600-900. The catalogue is online and the auction of 449 lots is on view in Skibbereen on today, tomorrow and Monday.
This Irish Neolithic bog oak dug out canoe made a hammer price of £7,500 at Bonhams in Edinburgh today. It had been estimated at £2,000-£3,000. It was from the Jim Lennon collection of silver, Asian and European works of art.
(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for January 17, 2022)
