EARLY 19TH CENTUY IRISH MAHOGANY FOLD OVER TEA TABLE. UPDATE: THIS MADE 700 AT HAMMER
THIS c1820 tea table comes up at Hegarty’s online sale in Bandon, Co. Cork on June 7. Estimated at 800-1,200 it is from the Martello Tower at Cobh and the Haughton family collection. Benjamin Haughton of the well known Quaker family in Cork was an independent member of Seanad Éireann from 1922 – 1928. He was one of a small deputation of business people who went to London to meet with Prime Minister Lloyd George in 1920 in an attempt to seek peace in Ireland. His relative James Haughton was a prominent figure in the Hibernian Anti-Slavery Society. The sale will include a selection of antique furniture, silver, jewellery and collectibles including a number of lots from the Haughton family.
CLARA PEETERS (ANTWERP 1589-1657) Roses, lilies, an iris and other flowers in an earthenware vase. UPDATE: THIS MADE $1.5 million
Old Master paintings, sculptures, and antiquities will come under the hammer at two live auctions at Christie’s in New York on June 9 and 10 and an online sale which runs to June 16. On 9 June, Old Masters | New Perspectives: Masterworks from the Alana Collection, offers one of the most important groups of Italian Renaissance works to come to market in a generation on June 9. On the following day the Old Masters sale features works by Northern Masters, women artists, and two pictures subject to restitution to the heirs of their owners. For the first time, Christie’s is offering an Old Masters sale entirely without reserve online.
(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for April 15, 2022)
BASIL BLACKSHAW HRHA RUA (1932-2016) – PENELOPE COLLINS. UPDATE: THIS MADE 17,000 AT HAMMER
This unusual four part portrait of Penelope Collins by Basil Blackshaw comes up at Whyte’s Irish and International art sale at the RDS on June 6. She is daughter of the artist Patrick Collins. It is estimated at €10,000-15,000. The catalogue for the sale is online and viewing gets underway at the RDS on June 4.
Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957) – The Bridge, Skibbereen made 440,000 at hammer
The Bridge at Skibbereen by Jack B Yeats made a hammer price of €440,000 over an estimate of €400,000-€600,000 at the James Adam sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin this evening. It was exhibited at The Dublin Society of Painters in 1920. A Pair of 18th century views of Dublin Bay Looking North and Looking South by William Ashford made €460,000 at hammer. Among the other top hammer prices were: Chiswick Baths by Sir John Lavery (€110,000); Sun Rising: An extensive wooded landscape by George Barret snr. (€90,000); Across from Inishlacken by Gerard Dillon (€65,000): Yellow Man by Hughie O’Donoghue (€57,000); Horse on Anvil by Barry Flanagan (€30,000); Arrieta-Orzola (Lanzarote) by Tony O’Malley (€28,000); Talk (Egglers) – egglers were men who dealt in eggs – by Jack Butler Yeats (€28,000); Sunday by Daniel O’Neill (€22,000); Drawing; Still Life by William Scott and Figure in Woodland by George Russell each made €20,000.
Edward McGuire (1932-1986) – Portrait of Michael Hartnett
The June selling season of Irish art kicks off with an exciting sale by James Adam in Dublin this evening. But one lot will not be included. This portrait of the Limerick poet Michael Harnett by Edward McGuire has been purchased in advance of the auction by the Limerick City Gallery. It was previously at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. The artist is best known for his portraits of literary figures, including Patrick Kavanagh, Paul Durcan, Seamus Heaney, Anthony Cronin, John Montague, Francis Stuart and this one, from 1971, of Michael Hartnett.
This classic McGuire work shows a thirty-year-old Hartnett by which time Hartnett had published Poems 1958-1970, Secular Prayers, Anatomy of a Cliché, Thirteen Sonnets and Notes on My Contemporaries. Hartnett, born 1941 in Croom Co Limerick, was educated locally and at UCD. He worked for a while as curator of Joyce’s tower at Sandycove, lived in Madrid and London, returned to Dublin where he worked at the international telephone exchange, as a house painter and as a lecturer in creative writing. He moved to Newcastle West in 1974 and died in 1999.
At Adams works by many of the most famous and best loved Irish artists dating over the last 250 years are featured – from a pair of rare views of Dublin in 1775 by William Ashford, up to a monumental 2008 oil by Hughie O’Donoghue, and everything in-between.
