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    IRISH ART EXHIBITION BY HERMANS AT WICKLOW ST. IN DUBLIN

    Friday, March 24th, 2023
    PATRICK COLLINS HRHA – The Brave Bull UPDATE: THIS MADE 11,000 AT HAMMER

    The Brave Bull by Patrick Collins is part of an exhibition called Dessel by Hermans at 10 Wicklow St. in Dublin from March 24-27. This is a show and auction of Modern and Contemporary Irish art. Taken from the old Irish word for sunwise, Dessel will feature a selection of works from Ireland’s most prominent and compelling artists, with established Irish art sharing wall space with the most contemporary works from fledgling artists.

    Bidders are invited to view the works at Wicklow Street over the weekend. The auctions starts on Monday March 27 at 7 pm.

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    KUSAMA WORKS HIGHLIGHT SOTHEBY’S HONG KONG SALE

    Thursday, March 23rd, 2023
    Two Monumental Sculptures by Yayoi Kusama. UPDATE: THE PUMPKIN SCULPTURE MADE €7.3 million (62,638,000 HKD)

    Infinity Mirror Room and Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama will highlight Sotheby’s Contemporary evening auction in Hong Kong on April 5. The towering two metre tall works represent the first Mirror Room to be offered at auction in Asia and the first monumental bronze pumpkin to come to auction.

    Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is widely celebrated as an unrivalled figure in contemporary art, admired both for her tenacity and compelling vision, with her renowned Infinity Mirror rooms, iconic dots and pumpkin sculptures drawing enormous crowds wherever they are shown. The sale coincides with the current Kusama exhibition at Hong Kong’s M+ Museum.

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    VALUE IN ANTIQUE FURNITURE AT WOODWARDS SALE IN CORK

    Tuesday, March 21st, 2023
    Set of six Cork inlaid mahogany 11-bar dining chairs. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,200 AT HAMMER

    A set of Cork 11-bar chairs (€3,000-€4,000) will highlight Woodwards sale in Cork on March 25.  There is a selection of affordable antique furniture like a William IV Mahogany lowboy, a Regency sofa table and a Georgian peat bucket (each €400-€500). Other pieces have estimates that are even smaller.  An Edwardian walnut sewing table (€300-€400), a Louis XV bowfront chest (€200-€300), an Edwardian bonheur du jour (€200-€300), a Georgian bureau (€200-€300), a Regency walnut card table (€200-€300), a boulle bombe chest (€200-€300) and a Victorian dining table (€100-€200) are some examples of lots with value. This sale offers a five piece cast iron garden set and a Coalbrookdale cast iron garden bench as well as Wateford Crystal, mirrors and collectibles.

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    JAMES JOYCE AND ROGER CASEMENT AT BONHAMS SALE

    Monday, March 20th, 2023

    Annotated typescripts from Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, mainly from Paris in 1936-37, will come up at Bonhams sale of fine books and manuscripts in Knightsbridge on March 29. Among them are sections of the third chapter of the second book, typed in black ink with Joyce’s autograph ink additions and two genealogies of “Finn” on two separate sheets. There are further revisions and corrections in the hand of either Joyce or more likely one or more of his amanuenses working on his instructions, in two parts. The lot, with 42 leaves in total, is estimated at £45,000-55,000. The sale also includes a series of six signed letters by Roger Casement to  to Max W. Karstensen of the Münchener Zeitung, 6 November 1915 to 6 March 1916, with supporting material. This lot is estimated at £4,000-6,000. UPDATE: The Casement letters made £4,845, the annotated Joyce typescripts were unsold.

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    LOST SHIP AND OAK FURNITURE FROM AN OLD HOTEL

    Sunday, March 19th, 2023
    A model of the Nellie Fleming of Youghal, lost with all hands in February 1936. UPDATE: THIS MADE 800 AT HAMMER

    With everything from Capuchin annuals, oak furniture from the old Fawcett’s Hotel in Ballycotton which came to a house in Cork around 1949, a fine set of Cork 11-bar chairs, an English silver lidded jug inscribed in 1877 from Jane, Countess of Bantry and a model of the Nellie Fleming of Youghal, lost with all hands in 1936,  the sale at Lynes and Lynes in Carrigtuohill on March 25 is redolent of Cork in days of yore.  There is more memorabilia in a silver salver by Egans of Cork inscribed: Presented to Henry St. J. Glynn on leaving Skibbereen by the members of the Choral Society, Nov. 1944″.  Each of these silver pieces is estimated at €500-€700.

    A 19th century carved oak Black Forest sideboard is estimated at €1,000-€1,500 and the selection of antique furniture is good. Most of it is fairly affordable. Unusual collectibles include a pair of tractor seat stools, about 30 old stoneware beer bottles, 142 Parker biros in original cases emblazoned with logos from  Aer Lingus, Ryanair, Black & Decker and many more companies and a 19th century rocking horse in need of restoration.  There will be interest too in a collection of metal garden lamps by Harte, Wexford and six old framed photographs of Queenstown originally at Ballynoe House.  Artworks include a painting of Annalong Harbour, Co. Down by Lillian Lucy Davidson.

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    THE NATIONAL ANTIQUES FAIR NOW UNDERWAY IN LIMERICK

    Saturday, March 18th, 2023
    A selection of percussion pistols which dealer David Elliman will feature on his militaria stand at the National Antiques Fair this weekend.

    Even when the weather outside is frightful one compensation of our world is that armed only with an internet connection it is possible to virtually view a huge selection of upcoming antiques, art and collectibles sales.The virtual world has its advantages but no matter where in Ireland you happen to be local sales that can be easily got to and viewed readily are a significant draw.

    There is no substitute for actual viewing. The thousands of people travelling to the National antique, art and vintage fair, an indoor event at Limerick Racecourse today and tomorrow, are testament to the fact that, though the market is subject to its ups and downs, interest is huge. Auctions at Lynes and Lynes and Woodwards scheduled to take place on March 25 will open for viewing today in Carrigtwohill and Cork city centre respectively.  

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    WHISKEY GALORE AND IRISH ART AT DOLAN’S

    Saturday, March 18th, 2023
    UPDATE: THESE MADE 9,500 AT HAMMER

    Irish art and rare Irish whiskeys form the nucleus of Dolan’s timed online Spring auction which runs until next March 20 at 6.30 p.m.  Among the many artists featured are Patrick Hennessy, Mark O’Neill, John Behan, Arthur Maderson, Charles Harper, John Brobbel, Martin Mooney, Ernest Hayes, Ciaran Clear and and Roger Dellar.

    The sale opens with a collection of 12 Midleton Very Rare Irish whiskeys from 2012 to 2022.  The estimate is €10,000-€12,000.  Dolan’s reports internet bidders from Cork to Sydney for this particular lot.  There is a unique bronze by John Behan titled Kyrenia Ship based on a 15 metre long Greek Cypriot ship from  around 389 BC which sank around 288 BC three miles off the coast of Kyrenia.  Dolan’s is also featuring artwork by Susan Cronin and other artists including Henry Morgan, John Morris, Norman Teeling, Mat Grogan, Douglas Hutton, Robert Ballagh, Roy Lyndsay, Robert Egginton, Olive Bodeker, Michael Morris and Henry Healy.

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    IRISH VERNACULAR SALE AT SHEPPARDS

    Friday, March 17th, 2023
    18th century Irish penal cross – UPDATE: THIS MADE €3,700 AT HAMMER

    This 18th century Irish penal cross comes up at Sheppards Irish Vernacular Part II sale on March 28. It is dated 1729 with a well figured corpus among a skull and crossbones. Sheppards will offer 368 lots in a private collection of Irish ceramics, furniture and metalwork. The catalogue is online and there will be viewing in Durrow from March 25-27. The cross is estimated at 2,000-3,000.

    This type of auction is developing as more and more collectors opt for rare and unusual collectibles. Auctioneers James Adam will hold their first Irish vernacular sale in Dublin on April 12. This is a new category for Adams.

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    FROM MARLENE DIETRICH TO ANNE EISENHOWER TO WHO???

    Thursday, March 16th, 2023
    AN EXCEPTIONAL RUBY AND DIAMOND ‘JARRETIÈRE’ BRACELET, BY VAN CLEEF & ARPELS, 1937 – $2.5-$4.5 million. © Christie’s Images Limited 2023.

    The magnificent jewels of Anne Eisenhower featuring the iconic ‘Jarretière’ ruby and diamond bracelet acquired by Marlene Dietrich in 1937 from Van Cleef & Arpels will be sold by Christie’s in New York on June 7. Worn by the actress in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1950 murder mystery ‘Stage Fright’ it was purchased by Ms. Eisenhower in 1992 – making its way from one iconic collection to another. Anne Eisenhower was, according to Christie’s, as known for her humble character as for her undeniable glamour, the late philanthropist and designer approached all aspects of her life with that same sense of effortless grace. When asked by Architectural Digest in 1990 – the same year she was named one of the publication’s Top 100 designers — to describe her interior design style the granddaughter of the late US President responded: ‘Traditional, but for today’s living: comfortable, with a “lived-in” look; uncluttered without appearing austere.’ 

    A tour of the collection will begin in Los Angeles and continue to Paris, Geneva, and Hong Kong. Additional jewels offered from the collection will come up at an online sale open from May 30  to June 8.

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    TEFAF MAKES SPECTACULAR MARCH RETURN

    Thursday, March 16th, 2023
    Joaquin Sorolla – Girls on a Beach

    TEFAF has made a spectacular return to its traditional March dates in Maastricht.  Tens of thousands of collectors and art lovers descended on Maastricht from around the world to see and acquire 7,000 years of the very best art history, presented by 270 exhibitors from 20 countries.  More than 250 museums and institutions visited the previews.  Among them were major institutions like the National Gallery of Washington; Art Institute of Chicago; J. Paul Getty Museum; MoMa; Metropolitan Museum of Art; American Friends of the Louvre; American Friends of the Musée d’Orsay; Guggenheim; Uffizi; Teylers Museum; Van Gough Museum; Rijksmuseum; Museum of Fine Art Boston; Louvre; Toledo Museum; Dallas Museum; Kimbell Museum; Museum Voorlinden; Mauritshuis; Cleveland Museum; Frick Collection; Museum Barberini; Kunstpalast Düsseldorf; Minneapolis Institute of Art; National Gallery of London and National Galleries of Scotland. 

    Security is tight.  Among many notable sales was a painting by Joaquin Sorolla titled Girls on a Beach on which the Barcelona Gallery Arthur Ramon Art of Barcelona had an asking price of €2,700,000.  The first exhibition of Sorolla’s work in Ireland was at the National Gallery in 2019.

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for August 10, 2019)

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