Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) – STATES OF BEING 2, 1964 (TRIPTYCH) made €26,000 at hammer
A total of €1.3 million was realised at Whyte’s Irish art sale in Dublin on May 25. The top lot was Dapping on Lough Mask by Paul Henry which made a hammer price of €230,000. Travelling People by Louis le Brocquy made €145,000. Mass in a Connemara Cabin by Aloysius O’Kelly made €40,000 at hammer over a top estimate of €30,000 and a portrait of Daniel O’Connell by Nicholas Joseph Crowley made €29,000 over a top estimate of €8,000. Art by Markey Robinson, Ciaran Clear and Derek Clarke all sold for above the top estimate. Whyte’s say their sale demonstrated a continuing strong demand for art of quality.
Lot 46, Portrait of Poet John Jordan 1958 by Pauline Bewick sold before the auction to a public gallery for €6,000. A number of lots sold after the auction including John Luke’s the Mournes 1939 at €50,000 and Basil Blackshaw’s The Morning Exercise which made €60,000.
The auction room, although sparse, as they all are these days, took over €500,000 worth of the art on offer. Telephone bidders took another €200,000, with on-line bidders taking the balance. There was a 70% selling rate.
(See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for May 8, 14, 19 and 23, 2026)