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Colin Davidson – Mourne Mountains
Mourne Mountains by Colin Davidson made a hammer price of €6,500 at Gormley’s art auction in Dublin this evening. Fire from the elements (H6) by Damien Hirst was the most expensive lot sold at €8,500. Hooker setting out for the island by Ciaran Clear made €5,400, Untitled by Patrick Scott made €5,200, a Still Life by Liam Belton made €5,000 and Bull by Anthony Scott made €4,200.
Yves Klein (1928-1962), California, (IKB 71), 1961 © Christie’s Images Limited 2025. UPDATE: THIS MADE 18,375,000
California, (IKB 71) will highlight Christie’s Avant-Garde(s) including Thinking Italian sale on October 23 during Paris Art Week. This exceptional monumental work measuring over four metres embodies the radical spirit and true inventiveness of Yves Klein. Returning to the city where it was created, and appearing at auction for the first time, California, (IKB 71) ranks among the most important works by Yves Klein to ever come to market.
With his signature International Klein Blue pigment, Klein sought to dissolve boundaries, inviting viewers to take an imaginative leap into an immaterial realm. The enveloping, immersive power of his monochromes places Yves Klein’s practice among the most ambitious of the second half of the 20th century, alongside leading figures of American Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting. It was last seen in public during its long-term loan to the? Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from 2005 to 2008.
Abstract Composition by Mainie Jellett (1897-1944). UPDATE: THIS MADE 32,000 AT HAMMER
Art by Louis le Brocquy, Paul Henry and Roderic O’Conor will lead Whyte’s sale of Irish and international art in Dublin on the evening of September 29. A total of 152 lots valued at over €1.2 million will come under the hammer. The catalogue cover lot is le Brocquy’s Image of Samuel Beckett from 1980 (€100,000-€150,000). In Connemara by Paul Henry has an estimate of €90,000-€120,000 and a self portrait by Roderic O’Conor has an estimate of €60,000-€80,000.
Abstract Composition by Mainie Jellett is estimated at €18,000-€22,000 and a watercolour with ink from le Brocquy’s Tinker series, Tinker Children at a Fair (1946) is estimated at €15,000-€20,000. Artists featured include Percy French, Rose Barton, Gerard Dillon, Dan O’Neill, Pauline Bewick, Rowan Gillespie, John Behan and Liam O’Neill.
Mother and Baby Achill by Lillian Lucy Davidson and Dublin Bay by Norah McGuinness are the top lots at the de Veres sale which runs until next Tuesday (September 30). Each is estimated at €7,000-€10,000. A total of 230 lots will come under the hammer by artists including Martin Gale, Frank McKelvey, Barbara Warren, Kenneth Webb, Kitty Wilmer O’Brien, Mark O’Neill and many more. Brown and White Cob by Basil Blackshaw (€12,000-€18,000) and Fire, from The Elements by Damien Hirst H6 (€8,000-€12,000) are the top lots at Gormley’s auction at Francis St. in Dublin at 7.30 pm next Tuesday. Catalogues for all these sales are online.
Dunquin Pier, Kerry by Sean O’Sullivan (1906-1964). UPDATE: THIS MADE 4,000 AT HAMMER
A Rolls Royce Corniche at Victor Mee’s sale in Tipperary. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
An original copy of the Irish Proclamation in Castlecomer, a Sheik’s Rolls Royce at New Inn in Co. Tipperary, art in Dublin and a reminder of nuns on the run – what is not to like among the auction offerings in Ireland this week.
An original copy of the Proclamation, first, limited and signed editions by Irish and international authors, a collection of Seamus Heaney material, rare maps, fine bindings and the earliest extant programme for the 1913 All Ireland senior hurling final are all included in Fonsie Mealy’s rare book and collectors sale in Castlecomer on October 1 and 2.
An original copy of The Proclamation at Fonsie Mealy. UPDATE: THIS MADE 90,000 AT HAMMER
More than 1,200 lots, headed by the Proclamation with an estimate of €100,000-€150,000, will come under the hammer. Rarities include an 18 carat gold medal presented in 1846 to Timothy O’Brien of Johnston Mooney and O’Brien for his continued exertions in the manufacture of bread from Indian corn (Trevelyan’s corn) (€15,000-€20,000). A scribal manuscript of Keating’s History of Ireland, transcribed for the use of Edward Denny of Tralee Castle, is similarly estimated. The antiquarian and local history library of the late Tony Bocking of Kinsale is included. The sale will be at the Avalon House Hotel and the auction is on view at Fonsie Mealy’s next Monday and Tuesday. The catalogue is online.
A Rolls Royce in a convent auction recalls the group of elderly Poor Clare nuns who made international headlines in 1990 after selling their convent in Bruges and moving to a life of luxury in the South of France. Alas, Victor Mee’s sale of contents from the Convent of Mercy at New Inn in Co. Tipperary, which includes both a Rolls and a Bentley, will feature lots from other clients too.
The Hooper built Rolls Royce Corniche in the sale was once owned by Sheik Abdelaziz bin Ahmed Al Thani. Lot 914 and estimated at €60,000-€120,000. A 1992 Bentley is more modestly estimated at €6,000-€12,000. The wide ranging collection on offer will include antique furniture, collectibles, Irish art, clocks, lighting, kitchen equipment, carpets and rugs among 1,200 lots.
A 19th century Killarney work table at Victor Mee. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
There will be much interest in a Killarney wood work table (€5,000-€8,000), a specimen marble chess table (€5,000-€8,000), an Irish Georgian breakfront bookcase (€3,500-€5,500) and a 19th century French clock garniture (€2,000-€4,000). Artists Edwin Hayes, Louis le Brocquy, Peter Curling, Cecil Maguire and Graham Knuttel will feature along with an Adoration of the Christ Child, a 19th century Italian work after Corregio. A sandstone two tier fountain is estimated at €2,000-€3,000 and there is some garden sculpture. The auction on September 28 is both online and in room, the sale on September 29 will be online only.
An All-Ireland hurling final programme from 1913, the first final at Jones Road, at Fonsie Mealy. UPDATE: THIS MADE €11,000 at hammer
PAIR OF 19TH-CENTURY GAINSBOROUGH ARMCHAIRS IN BUTTONED LEATHER UPHOLSTERY
This handsome pair of library armchairs will come up as lot 238 at Sheppard’s three day sale in Durrow from October 7-10. The Legacy of the Big House sale will offer around 1700 lots of Irish and international art, furniture, sculpture, lighting, arms, books and decorative objects. Viewing gets underway in Durrow on October 4 and the catalogue is online. The chairs are estimated at €5,000-€8,000.
Arthur Maderson – Evening shadows on the beach. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,800 AT HAMMER
This small oil on canvas by Arthur Maderson is lot 28 at Dolan’s timed online autumn auction of Irish art, rare whiskies and collectibles which runs until September 29. The sale features the work of 20th century and contemporary Irish and international artists and emerging talents in the world of Irish art. This lot is estimated at €2,800-€3,500. A collection of nine Midleton Very Rare Irish Whiskeys leads the auction with an estimate of €4,800-€6,500.
Maser – Colourway. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Colourway by the Dublin artist Maser, who first made his mark on the grafitti scene in 1995, is lot 81 at Whyte’s sale of Irish and International art on September 29. He has created immersive installations in cities including Berlin, Paris, Zurich, Milan, Hamburg, Munich and Amsterdam. The unframed acrylic and spray paint on canvas is estimated at €2,500-3,500. Artists in the auction include Roderic O’Conor, William Orpen, Harry Clarke, Mainie Jellett, Paul Henry, Louis le Brocquy, Donald Teskey and Rowan Gillespie. Viewing for the sale is underway at Whyte’s on Molesworth St. in Dublin.
A Family of Cheetahs in a Rocky Landscape attributed to Basawan, Mughal India, circa 1575-80. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £10,245,000 (€11,689,545), 14 times over estimate and a world record auction price for a classical Indian or Islamic painting.
A landmark auction of exceptional paintings from the personal collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan at Christie’s London on October 28 will present the market with an opportunity to acquire masterpieces of Indian and Persian painting. Comprising 95 works, the sale features the paintings that Prince Sadruddin and Princess Catherine Aga Khan chose to live with at their home, Chateau de Bellerive, on the shores of Lake Geneva. This is truly a personal collection that reflects their impeccable taste and discerning eye for quality, rarity and beauty. The group includes some of the most important examples of their kind in any collection in the world, many having been studied and published by leading scholars of the 20th century and featured in ground-breaking exhibitions. With estimates ranging from £2,000 to £1,000,000, this personal collection is expected to realise in excess of £8 million.
One of a pair of satinwood inlaid side cabinets. UPDATE: THIS LOT MADE 2,300 AT HAMMER
A pair of exceptional satinwood wide cabinets will feature among the top furniture lots at Victor Mee’s auction of contents from the former Convent of Mercy at New Inn in Co. Tipperary on September 28 and 29. The catalogue features lots from other clients too. A total of 1230 lots will come under the hammer.
William IV combination games/sewing table. UPDATE: THIS MADE 320 AT HAMMER
A Regency inlaid teapoy, William IV games/sewing table or a Georgian davenport. Any of these petite antique furniture items would grace a modern house or apartment and all three will come under the hammer with reasonable estimates at Woodwards in Cork on September 27. The teapoy and the games table are reckoned to make €400-€600 each while the davenport has an estimate of €500-€800.
There is a good selection of antique pieces in this sale, from a harlequin set of Cork 11-bar dining chairs (€1,000-€1,500), a Victorian walnut tallboy (€400-€600) and a Georgian hexagonal cellarette (€600-€800) to an Irish Regency secretaire bookcase (€1,000-€1,200), a Georgian walnut bureau (€800-€1,200) and a Georgian kneehole desk (€400-€600). All have provided sterling and elegant service for many years and can do so for many more. The auction offers a large gilt framed mirror (€600-€800), a set of four gilt framed mirrors (€1,000-€1,500), a selection of Persian rugs and three French chandeliers and many other items of interest. The catalogue is online.
