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    ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR AT TEFAF MAASTRICHT

    Friday, June 24th, 2022
    Necklace, 1969. Platinum, white gold, 59 sapphires for about 65.95 carats (Burma, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Thailand, Cambodia), diamonds. Heritage Collection.

    This magnificent 1969 Heritage necklace will be presented by Van Cleef and Arpels at TEFAF Maastricht which runs from June 25-30. The 59 sapphires of various origins and shapes are displayed as an exceptional ensemble of precious stones set in white gold and platinum.

    The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) returns to Maastricht in signature style, revealing a selection of recent discoveries and masterpieces for the 35th edition. TEFAF Maastricht attracts the world’s leading dealers and is unrivalled in terms of the breadth and depth of the works presented.

    ANTIQUE ROADSHOW AT HUNT MUSEUM FUNDRAISER

    Thursday, June 23rd, 2022

    There will be an antiques roadshow at the Hunt Museum in Limerick from noon to 4 pm on Sunday June 26. Experts on hands will cover all areas from books, coins, general ephemera, glass, ceramics, silver, pictures and textiles. The Friends of the Hunt Museum, who have organised the event to raise funds for upgrading and refurbishing a number of showcases at the museum, have advised people who would like to have a furniture valuation to bring a good photograph rather than the piece. There will be a panel of experts from the Irish Antique Dealers Association and auctioneers Fonsie Mealy and George Mealy in attendance.

    ASIAN ART AT THREE DAYS OF SALES AT ADAMS IN DUBLIN

    Thursday, June 23rd, 2022
    A JADE SNUFF BOTTLE CHINA, LATE QING DYNASTY. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    This jade snuff bottle is lot 11 at three days of sale of Asian art at James Adam in Dublin next week. The catalogues for Asian Spring 1, Asian Spring 2 and Decorative Asian Art are online and in person viewing gets underway at St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin on June 24. The auctions, which feature lots from noted collections, have already been previewed at the Pagoda Fair in Paris.

    TEFAF AT MAASTRICHT FROM JUNE 25-30

    Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022
    ‘Japonisme’ Gilt and Patinated Bronze and Cloisonne Table by Ferdinand Barbedienne – Design attributed to Edouard Lièvre, c1870

    The rare and important table encapsulates the fashion for the ‘le style japonais et chinois’ which swept Paris in the mid-19th century and was inspired by Empress Eugénie’s Musée chinoisat the Château de Fontainebleau and the opening of trade with Japan. This occasioned a revival of the study of the art and culture of the Far East, which itself was greatly advanced by Japan’s participation in the World’s Fairs, or Great Exhibitions of Art and Industry, which for the first time presented for public consumption a dazzling array of Asian artworks. and techniques including cloisonné enamel, marquetry of shell and ivory, carved wood and patinated bronze. Western artists created their own works by adopting and reinterpreting this newfound source of inspiration. The ensuing style, an amalgamation of Eastern and Western influences was coined ‘Japonisme’ and went on to inspire the organic forms of Art Nouveau and Aestheticism.

    Adrian Alan Ltd. of London will present this table at TEFAF. With an extraordinary selection of antiques gathered by 242 leading global dealers The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) – normally held in March – runs at Maastricht  in The Netherlands from June 25-30. Collectors, specialists and curators can experience 7000 years of art history at a fair which offers everything from Greek statues to the best of contemporary art and design.

    PAINTING ONCE AT BALLYHAHINCH AT SOTHEBY’S

    Tuesday, June 21st, 2022
    Joseph van Aken – A Musical Gathering. UPDATE: THIS MADE £15,120

    This painting of A Musical Gathering was once part of the Berridge Collection at Ballynahinch Castle, Co. Galway. It comes up at Sotheby’s Old Masters day auction on July 7 with an estimate of £12,000-£18,000. Bidding for this sale which offers Flemish landscapes, Dutch marines, Netherlandish still lifes, Italian religious paintings and classical landscapes, to British portraits and historic view paintings of London, and a variety of canvases from nineteenth-century continental Europe, opens on July 1. A Musical Gathering was removed from Ballynahinch in 1924 and retained by the Berridges. In 1872 the Ballynahinch estate in county Galway, was bought by Richard Berridge, a London brewer, from the Law Life Assurance Society. In the mid 1870s he is recorded as owning over 160,000 acres in county Galway. In 1888 Bateman asserted that Richard Berridge was “the largest landowner in Ireland”. The Galway estate was purchased for sporting purposes and the Berridges built a number of fishing lodges, including those at Inagh, Fermoyle and Screebe. The estate remained in the family’s possession for only two generations. Over 70,000 acres was vested in the Congested Districts’ Board in 1915. The family retained a house in the locality and some fishing at Screebe until the late 20th century.

    FIRST TIME TO MARKET FOR DEFINING YVES KLEIN WORK

    Monday, June 20th, 2022
    Yves Klein – Anthropométrie de l’époque bleue, (ANT 124) (1960). UPDATE: THIS MADE £27,197,000

    A defining 1960 work by Yves Klein, Anthropometrie de l’epoque bleue will highlight Christie’s  20th/21st Century London evening sale on June 28. Coming to market for the first time it consists of eight solid blue imprints against a shimmering azure backdrop. It was painted after he had developed International Klein Blue and was in pursuit of ways to transcend the body and the physical realm.

    Now live for browsing Christie’s 20/21 London to Paris sale series focuses again on artistic synergies between London and Paris throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

    GEORGIAN FIREPLACE AND VICTORIAN SPIRAL STAIRCASE

    Monday, June 20th, 2022
    Irish Georgian marble fireplace. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    An Irish Georgian fireplace with a neoclassical style Adams plaque and an ornate Victorian cast iron spiral staircase will be feature lots at the online Lynes and Lynes sale from Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork on June 25. The auction is comprised of 361 lots.  There is an executors contents from west Cork, part contents from a religious order and furniture and silver from estates and collections in Dublin, Cork, Waterford and Limerick. The most expensively estimated piece, at €12,000-€15,000, is the fireplace. Along with the 14′ high spiral staircase (€2,000-€3,000) this can be viewed in situ.  It will be up to the purchaser to dismantle and remove them.

    Victorian cast iron spiral staircase. UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,700 AT HAMMER

    A fine pair of oval antique Waterford mirrors with alternating blue lozenge and gilt fluted cut glass studs will be of interest to collectors.  They are estimated at €6,000-€8,000.  A Georgian long case clock with brass dial by Thomas Cahill of Waterford is reasonably estimated at €1,000-€1,500. A Limerick silver soup ladle measuring 14 and a half inches in length by Patrick Connell – Limerick silver is always a rarity – is estimated at €400-€600.  An early Cork silver salver by John Nicholson comes with an estimate of €300-€500. A pair of Irish pole screens, most likely by the Dublin firm of Williams & Gibton, is  estimated at €300-€500. There is a soup plate from the old Cork Mansion House service. This was designed by renowned Cork based architect George Richard Pain (1793 to 1838), who was a pupil of John Nash, as the Lord Mayor’s dinner service for what was then the Mansion House and is now the Mercy Hospital. The plate is estimated at €100-€200. There are some Meissen plates with the crossed  swords mark and a French ormolu mantel clock with Sevres panels is estimated at €1,000-€1,500.

    WIDE RANGE OF IRISH ART AT MORGAN O’DRISCOLL SALE

    Saturday, June 18th, 2022
    DANIEL O’NEILL (1920-1974) – HEAD UPDATE: THIS MADE 19,000 AT HAMMER

    Dan O’Neill, Louis le Brocquy, Jack B Yeats, John Shinnors and Mr. Brainwash all feature at Morgan O’Driscoll’s online evening sale of Important Irish Art on June 20.  The auction kicks off with a Study for a Stained Glass Window by Evie Hone and there is art by Mainie Jellett, Percy French, Arthur Maderson, Cecil Maguire, Flora Mitchell, Sean Keating, Rose Barton, Mildred Anne Butler and a wide variety of Irish artists whose work is sought after.  The catalogue is online.

    BACON PORTRAIT OF FREUD AT SOTHEBY’S

    Friday, June 17th, 2022
    Francis Bacon – Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud, 1964 (Estimate in excess of £35 million) Courtesy Sotheby’s. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £43,336,000

    Francis Bacon’s magnetic portrait of Lucian Freud will highlight British Art: The Jubilee Auction at Sotheby’s in London on June 29. Paintined in 1964 the full-length portrait illuminates the powerful dialogue of friendship and epochal rivalry which would engulf two titans of art history and spur them to create some of their greatest works. The pair had first met 20 years earlier and would go on to share an intense friendship for over 40 years until jealousy and petty rows would ultimately splinter relations forever in the mid-1980’s.

    Though their visual styles differed considerably, both artists were deeply committed to the human figure, painting each other on numerous occasions over the years. Indeed, for Bacon, Freud would become a recurrent – and one of the most significant – subjects of his work in the 1960’s. Bacon believed that: “the living quality is what you have to get. In painting a portrait, the problem is to find a technique by which you can give over all the pulsations of a person…The sitter is someone of flesh and blood and what has to be caught is their emanation.”

    The black and white photographs taken by their mutual friend John Deakin would become Bacon’s primary source material as he painted Freud obsessively. Of great personal significance, Bacon would keep these photographs with him for the rest of his life, and they were rediscovered torn, crumpled and splattered with paint in his studio following his death.

    SILVER SHINES AND MIRRORS SPARKLE AT FONSIE MEALY SALE

    Wednesday, June 15th, 2022
    THIS EARLY PAIR OF IRISH PROVINCIAL TABLESPOONS, POSSIBLY CORK, SOLD FOR 4,400

    MIRRORS sparkled and silver shone on day two of Fonsie Mealy’s Chatsworth summer fine art sale online from Castlecomer today. This early pair of Irish provincial silver tea spoons, with an estimate of 200-300, made a hammer price of 4,400. An 18th century Dublin c1788 serving spoon with a hooked handle and HM makers mark, made 3,000 over a top estimate of 300, a c1792 Dublin soup ladle with an estimate of 200-300 made 2,300, a cowrie shell silver crested snuff box by Jane Williams, Cork make 2,500 over a top estimate of 600 and a pair of card trays by Michael McDermott, Cork c1760 made 2,200 over a top estimate of 1,500.

    An 18th century carved gilt overmantle in the Chippendale manner crested with a ho ho bird from Cahir Park House in Co. Tipperary made 11,500 at hammer and an Irish gilt and gesso two compartment overmantle mirror made 9,500 at hammer. On June 14 a large pair of Irish carved giltwood compartmental mirrors made 11,000.

    (See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for May 31, June 8, June 12 and June 14, 2022)