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    WARHOL DRAWINGS FROM BLAU COLLECTION AT THE DOROTHEUM

    Friday, March 21st, 2025

    “Andy Warhol – The 1950s Drawings from Daniel Blau” at the Dorotheum in Vienna on March 27 offers an extraordinary selection of works on paper with moderate starting prices. The 221 drawings are executed in pencil or ink, sometimes accented with gouache or collaged with adhesive tape, with starting prices from €800 to €4,000.  Renowned Munich gallery owner Daniel Blau, son of painter Georg Baselitz, discovered the drawings in 2011 in Warhol’s personal estate at the Warhol Foundation Archive and acquired them. They have since been displayed in major touring exhibitions in Europe and the US.  Blau is now parting with his Munich gallery.  A second auction on March 28 features Daniel Blau’s collection of works on paper by George Grosz, Markus Lüpertz, Per Kirkeby, Neal Fox and others. After online bidding pre-bids lots will be auctioned in a virtual auction room at the Dorotheum, the largest auction house in central Europe.  Pictured here is Untitled (Angel Playing the Trumpet) a c1955 ink on paper.

    UPDATE: THIS MADE €9,888. ALL THE DRAWINGS FROM THE COLLECTION SOLD. An astounding 4,500 bids were submitted, sparking intense bidding duels in the virtual auction room, which lasted seven hours and continued late into the evening.

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    ADAMS IMPORTANT IRISH ART SALE ON VIEW FROM TODAY

    Friday, March 21st, 2025

    Patrick Swift (1927-1983)  – Positano  UPDATE: THIS MADE 28,000 AT HAMMER

    Viewing for the James Adam sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin on March 26 gets underway today. A total of 145 lots will come under the hammer including Positano by Patrick Swift, exhibited at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin in 1993. It is estimated at €8,000-€12,000. The auction offers a wide array of paintings, tapestries, sculpture and print by many of Ireland’s best loved artists.

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    TIMED AUCTION BY DOLAN’S NOW LIVE ONLINE

    Wednesday, March 19th, 2025

    Mark O’Neill – Garden’s Rainbow. UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,700 AT HAMMER

    Art and whiskey combine to make Dolan’s Spring auction, now live online, a cause to celebrate for collectors of all things Irish. Artists featured include Mark O’Neill, Arthur Maderson, Peter Curling, Norman Teeling, Susan Cronin, George Gillespie, Robert Egginton and Moyra Barry. The sale features a selection of Very Rare Midleton Whiskeys and there is antique furniture and collectibles, including stamps and books. The timed online sale runs until March 24.

    A set of 10 Very Rare Midleton whiskeys. UPDATE: THESE MADE 4,600 AT HAMMER

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    TIMED ONLINE AUCTION OF IRISH ART AT DE VERES

    Tuesday, March 18th, 2025

    DAN O’NEILL (1920-1974) – LANDSCAPE, TIRCONAILL. UPDATE: THIS MADE 15,000 AT HAMMER.

    Landscape Tirconaill by Dan O’Neill (€15,000-€20,000) leads the timed online Irish art auction by de Veres which runs until March 25.  Feeding Ground by Norah McGuinness is estimated at €14,000-€18,000.

    With around 180 lots on offer estimates range from €80 up. Among the top lots at this auction is work by Louis le Brocquy, Hughie O’Donoghue, Basil Blackshaw,  Harry Kernoff, Markey Robinson and William Crozier.

    Norah McGuinness (1901-1980) – Feeding Ground UPDATE: THIS MADE 14,000 AT HAMMER

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    IRISH ARTISTS AT CHRISTIE’S SALE IN LONDON THIS WEEK

    Monday, March 17th, 2025

    Roderic O’Connor –  Paysage, Pont Aven, 1892. UPDATE: THIS MADE  £378,000

    Paysage, Pont Aven, an important and vibrant example of Roderic O’Conor’s stripe pictures, comes up at Christie’s Modern British and Irish art evening sale in London on March 19. It was exhibited in Paris at the 1892 Salon des Indépendents demonstrating its avant-garde approach and technique. The stripe pictures are generally accepted as the artist’s most desirable period. The estimate is £200,000-£300,000.

    The auction features an interior by Sir John Lavery, The Hall, Argyll House, A summer’s day (1925). Argyll House on the King’s Road was home to Sybil Colefax and her husband Arthur in 1925. Known for her exceptional taste, she founded her business in the 1930’s and in 1938 was joined by John Fowler.  Her business became known as Colefax & Fowler. The estimate is £100,000-£150,000.

    Sir John Lavery – The Hall, Argyll House – A Summer Day, 1925. UPDATE: THIS MADE £157,500.

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    COLOURFUL LE BROCQUY TAPESTRY LEADS ADAMS ART AUCTION

    Monday, March 17th, 2025

    Cavanagh (1974) by Louis le Brocquy. UPDATE: THIS MADE 76,000 AT HAMMER

    A large, colourful and unique tapestry by Louis le Brocquy, commissioned for Setanta House in Dublin in the mid 1970’s, is the leading lot at the James Adam evening sale of Important Irish Art on March 26. The Aubusson wool tapestry produced by Tabard Freres & Soeurs is estimated at €80,000-€120,000.

    The catalogue cover lot is Pont du Gard by Mary Swanzy, an oil on canvas with a definite wow factor in which the artist painted a simplified Roman aqueduct with exceptional freedom.  The estimate is €25,000-€35,000.

    Pont du Gard by Mary Swanzy. UPDATE: THIS MADE 40,000 AT HAMMER

    The Promised Land by Colin Middleton (€20,000-€30,000) was painted in 1947 when horrifying newsreel footage of the liberation of the concentration camps was widely viewed. Deeply deeply affected by these images Middleton here depicts two isolated and anonymous figures dispossessed by war caught up in swirling tides not of their own making and in search of a new land.  Sadly this theme is as apposite now as it was in 1947.  Plus ca change.

    A c1886 Portrait Interior with Oriental Screen by Sir John Lavery is a chance  discovery made when the vendor turned up at Adams looking for a valuation with no idea who the artist was.  Adams had Lavery expert Professor Kenneth McConkey take a look and he confirmed the attribution.  The oil on panel, measuring 42cm x 28cm, is estimated at €5,000-€8,000.

    The Promised Land by Colin Middleton UPDATE: THIS MADE 22,000 AT HAMMER

    Demand for George Russell (AE) is steady and consistent and there are a number of works by the artist in the sale, headed by An Apparition from 1921, an oil on canvas that reveals the influences of Symbolism (€8,000-€12,000).

    The artist Gerard Dillon experiments with geometric forms, line and colour in Abstract by Night, a large scale work in an arresting palette of colours. The lot is estimated at €8,000-€12,000.

    The auction offers art by John Doherty, Barrie Cooke, Camille Souter, Frank McKelvey, Lady Beatrice Glenavy, Sean Keating, Dan O’Neill, Hilary Heron, Tony O’Malley, John Shinnors, Cecil King, Felim Egan, Deborah Brown, Sarah Purser, James English, Pauline Bewick and many more artists among 145 lots. The sale is on view at Adams from March 21 and the catalogue is online.

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    SPRING ONLINE ART SALE AT WHYTE’S IN DUBLIN

    Sunday, March 16th, 2025

    William Scott (1913-1989) – Arran 1960. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    This lithograph by William Scott, number 32 from an edition of 50, is at Whyte’s Spring online art sale which runs until March 24. Printed at the Curwen Studio and published by Johanna Schiessel Abstracta-Verlag, Freiberg it is estimated at €2,500-€3,500. Among the artists represented are William Orpen, Mary Swanzy, George Campbell, Gerard Dillon, Patrick Collins, William Scott, Robert Ballagh, Louise Mansfield, Harry Kernoff, John ffrench and Auguste Edouart.  A set of four silhouettes by Edouart is estimated at €1,000-€1,500. The sale is on view at Whyte’s in Dublin from March 18.

    Auguste Edouart (French 1789-1861) – A set of four silhouettes, three signed and dated. UPDATE: THIS LOT WAS UNSOLD

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    LIMERICK OR MAASTRICHT? ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR

    Saturday, March 15th, 2025

    A set of four George II candlesticks by Robert Calderwood, Dublin c1745 at the Limerick fair.

    Collectors know all about having to make choices.  One choice available this St. Patrick’s Weekend is Ireland’s biggest fair or Europe’s biggest fair.  Limerick or Maastricht.  If you can avail of either more power to your elbow.

    The array of dealers at Limerick Racecourse today and tomorrow is impressive. They have assembled from Donegal to Dublin, Belfast to Kerry, Tipperary to Roscommon, Antrim and Drogheda to Kilkenny and Galway and all points between.  On offer is everything from silver, rugs, jewellery and porcelain to art, antique furniture, militaria, vintage fashion and collectibles of every type.

    TEFAF Maastricht is a world fair which brings curators from major museums and heavy hitting private collectors with deep pockets to a beautiful Dutch town every year. It runs until March 20. So refreshing to see the super rich looking at objects ranging from antiquities to cutting edge contemporary art instead power playing with global politics on an inept scale.  World domination aside if you can’t find something you want at either of these venues you are just not looking properly.

     Gallerie Maria Wettergren, Paris will show After the Storm (Square) by Gjertrud Hals at TEFAF Maastricht : Photo Omar Sejnaes.

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    ARTIST RARELY SEEN AT AUCTION TO HIGHLIGHT SALE AT CHRISTIE’S IN PARIS

    Friday, March 14th, 2025

    SOPHIE TAEUBER-ARP (1889-1943) – Relief rond en quatre hauteurs (Round relief in four heights) © Christie’s Images Limited 2025 

    This painting by Sophie Taeuber-Arp – one of the major figures of modernity – is a highlight at Christie’s stand alone auction in Paris on April 8 of the collection Funck-Brentano. In 2021 and 2022, Living Abstraction – a retrospective organised jointly by the Kunstmuseum Basel, Tate London and MoMA in New York – and the Elles font l’abstraction exhibition at the Centre Pompidou confirmed her key role in the history of art. The power and significance of multidisciplinary work by Taeuber-Arp have had a lasting and profound influence on contemporary artists and designers.  The art market has shown a keen interest and the work is rare at auction.

    Completed in 1937, Relief rond en quatre hauteurs was acquired directly from the artist’s studio by Michel Seuphor, who donated it to the Funck-Brentanos in 1987, as a gesture of gratitude. It is estimated at €1.9 – €2.5 million. Ten wooden reliefs by Sophie Taeuber-Arp are known and only three are still in private hands. The record for a work by Sophie Taeuber-Arp, set in 2003 in Paris, is €1.2 million. 

    Born in Germany Liselotte Kahn (1929-2020) was initially stateless when she arrived in France in 1936, and found refuge in Switzerland. A childhood spent in exile led to deep-seated European convictions, which she shared throughout her life with Roland Funck-Brentano (1929-2013), whom she met whilst studying law at university in Paris.  In 1954 they founded what was to become one of the leading corporate law firms in Paris, deeply involved in the internationalisation of law and specialised in the development of European Community legislation.

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    A Fabergé egg and a Pleyel grand piano by Ruhlmann at TEFAF

    Thursday, March 13th, 2025

    Carl Fabergé – An Imperial enamelled gold and gem-set egg pendant 1896-1908

    This Fabergé egg, made with silver, gold, enamel and diamonds, will be feature by Wartski at TEFAF, Maastricht. The egg pendant, measuring just 2.4 cm, is decorated with opalescent white guilloché enamel, bound with a single band of rose cut diamonds mounted in silver, from which spring alternating chased yellow and green gold oak leaves. Wartski is a British firm of antique dealers specialising in Russian works of art.

    Among many highlights at TEFAF,  which offers unparalleled collecting opportunities, is a grand piano by Ruhlmann with Macassar ebony veneer, walnut, and violet wood and a case ornamented with gilded wood and gilded bronze. The Pleyel piano was commissioned by François Ducharne, then head of Soieries F. Ducharne, for his private mansion in Paris. This rare piano will be showcased alongside a unique collection of Ruhlmann furniture and objects, including rugs, armchairs, pedestal tables, and a coffee table, all featured by Galerie Marcilhac of Rue Bonaparte in Paris.

    TEFAF. globally recognised as the premier fair for fine art, antiques, and design, runs from March 15 – 20 with an invitation only preview today and tomorrow.

    Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann – Pleyel grand piano 1929

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