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    SHINNORS, BEWICK, O’MALLEY AT DE VERES ONLINE SALE

    Saturday, March 25th, 2023
    John Shinnors – White Ship, Estuary, October

    Art by John Shinnors, Pauline Bewick, Carey Clarke, Tony O’Malley and William Crozier features at de Veres timed online March Irish art auction which runs until next Tuesday (March 28),  There are 142 lots on this interesting catalogue, including three late 1950’s gouaches of scenes in France by the late Cork artist John O’Leary.  The sale much to whet the appetite at across the board rates.Colourful watercolours by the late Pauline Bewick are full of the joy of spring, there is a particularly cheerful work titled Bog Cuts by Brian Bourke, an interesting Lake Study by John Luke, a watercolour of harbour boats in Spain by William Crozier, colourful works by Mary Theresa Keown and Desmond Carrick,, flower studies by Stella Steyn, Brigid Ganly, Carey Clarke, Phoebe Donovan and others, still lifes, abstractions and a collection of oils by Richard Kingston.

    IRISH ART EXHIBITION BY HERMANS AT WICKLOW ST. IN DUBLIN

    Friday, March 24th, 2023
    PATRICK COLLINS HRHA – The Brave Bull,

    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.

    KUSAMA WORKS HIGHLIGHT SOTHEBY’S HONG KONG SALE

    Thursday, March 23rd, 2023
    Two Monumental Sculptures by Yayoi Kusama

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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)

    PERMISSION GRANTED FOR CRAWFORD GALLERY RE-DEVELOPMENT

    Wednesday, March 15th, 2023

    Planning permission for an important redevelopment of the Crawford gallery has just been granted by Cork City Council.. The project has been designed by an interdisciplinary design team led by Grafton Architects, and is being delivered by the Office of Public Works and Crawford Art Gallery. Catherine Martin, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media has welcomed the decision. The project is being funded by her department. The gallery will remain open to visitors until the Autumn of 2024 after redevelopment will commence on-site. 

    A KNEELING MAN IN PROFILE BY RUBENS AT CHRISTIE’S

    Sunday, March 12th, 2023

    A Study of a Kneeling Man in Profile by Peter Paul Rubens will be among the highlights at Christie’s annual Old Master and 19th Century Drawings sale in Paris on March 22. Drawing inspiration from Caracci and other Italian greats this work is an example of the Italian influence that remained with Rubens long after his return to Antwerp. The delicate study was created using one of his favourite techniques, black chalk accentuated with white.   Drawings by Rubens rarely appear and this one was last on the market in 1867. The estimate is €250,000-€350,000.  The auction, with works spanning more than 400 years of European art, will coincide with the opening of the Salon du Dessin in Paris, the foremost fair dedicated to drawing and now a major international event. Image © Christie’s Images Limited 2023. UPDATE: THIS MADE €378,000 at hammer.

    SIXMILEBRIDGE SALE TO INCLUDE ANTIQUE DEALER STOCK

    Saturday, March 11th, 2023
    19th century Chinese export sterling silver tea set

    Items from the estate of the late antique dealer Stephen Stock will come under the hammer at Aidan Foley’s two day sale at Sixmilebridge on March 13 and 14.  Belfast born and Dublin based for over 30 years he did not have a shop of his own, but was a respected source and supplier the antique trade. The auction will include tribal art, Oriental items and an early abstract work attributed to Sean Scully.One of his last commissions, with Niall Mullen, was an interior fit out of the upstairs bar at The Queens in Dalkey.  His collection, curated by Niall Mullen, will come up in a two day Spring sale of more than 1,400 lots of art, antique furniture, rugs, jewellery and collectibles.  The top lot is a 19th century Chinese export sterling silver tea set with an estimate of €4,000-€6,000.

    HISTORIC BOER WAR CHAIR AT MULLEN’S COLLECTOR’S CABINET

    Friday, March 10th, 2023

    On May 31, 1902, after two-and-a-half years of conflict between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the South African Republic and the Orange Free State); the Boer War ended. On that day the Treaty of Vereeniging was signed, placing South Africa within the British Empire. This ia the Captain of the Guard’s chair used at the treaty signing by Major Charles Roper-Lindsay, Royal Munster Fusiliers. He was attached to Utrecht-Vryheid Mounted Police. The stinkwood dining chair has a brass plaque engraved “2nd Boer War – Used at Signing of Peace of – Vereeniging, May 1902 – Capt. of Guard – Maj. Charles Roper-Lindsay”. It comes up as lot 44 with an estimate of €800-1,200 at Mullen’s Collector’s Cabinet online auction on March 11. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD