A rare example of an Irish scene by renowned Scottish artist Anne Redpath comes up at Bonhams in Edinburgh on May 13. Dun Laoghaire Harbour was painted in the late 1940’s after a visit to Ireland in 1947. Although the label on the back of this painting just provides a title of The Harbour – Dublin, it was always known in the family as Dunlaoghaire Harbour and has not been seen in public since 1958. Redpath is listed as exhibiting a painting with the title Dunlaoghaire Harbour in London, with the Society of Scottish Artists in 1947 and again at the Royal Academy in 1949. It comes up at The Scottish Art sale on May 13, a sale which includes paintings by all four of the Scottish Colourists – Samuel Peploe, George Leslie Hunter, Francis Cadell and J.D Fergusson.
ANNE REDPATH OBE RSA ARA LLD ARWS ROI RBA (BRITISH, 1895-1965) The Harbour, Dublin (£10,000-15,000). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £29,000 (€33,668)
A rare Nude by Marie Vassilieff from her cubist period was the top lot at Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art and Works on paper sale in Paris. It made €680,000, the second highest price achieved for the artist at auction. The sale total was €10,347,375 and there was bidding from 30 countries. The second part of the collection “De Caillebotte à Calder” achieved a combined total of €938,750 including two emblematic works by Raoul Dufy, Le port du Havre which sold for €325,000 and Nu dans l’atelier de la place Arago à Perpignan which realised €375,000.
Georges Seurat – Paysage et personnages (La jupe rose), 1884 ($7-10 million)
Two exceedingly rare studies for Georges Seurat’s masterpiece Un Dimanche d’été à l’Ile de La Grande Jatte will highlight Christie’s 20th Century livestreamed evening sale in New York on May 11. The two oil panels, being sold from the family of Boston collector Robert Treat Paine II, are among the few examples of Seurat’s extensive preparatory practice for this masterpiece to remain in private hands. More than half of the oil studies for La Grande Jatte are in the collections of prestigious museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and the National Gallery of Art, London. Seurats Bathers at Asnières, 1884 has long been one of the most popular paintings in London’s National Gallery.
Both Seurat panels remained in the artist’s possession until his untimely death in 1890, at which point, Paysage et personnages(La jupe rose) was acquired shortly thereafter by a fellow artist, the Belgian painter Jean de Greef. The painting would pass through the collection of the Symbolist poet and art dealer Charles Vignier during the early twentieth century, before crossing the Atlantic in the mid-1920s. Similarly, Le Saint-Cyrien was gifted by the artist’s mother to the painter Henri-Edmond Cross, a close friend of Seurat. It subsequently passed to Félix Fénéon, the influential French art critic who coined the term Neo-Impressionism, before also making its way to the Americas, where it was reunited with Paysage et personnages(La jupe rose) in 1929.
Un Dimanche d’été à l’Ile de La Grande Jatte is in the collection of The Art Institute of Chicago.
This 17th century William and Mary oak and elm refectory table is lot 17 at the James Adam timed online Library Collection sale which begins to close at 2 pm today. The planked top is in figured elm above a carved frieze with a trailing leaf pattern. It is carved with the initials WB and dated 1649. The table is estimated at €5,000-8,000. UPDATE: THIS WAS BID TO 4,200 AND WITHDRAWN.
With everything from a Georgian oak cased tavern wall clock to designer loungers the Easter Interiors and Historical sale by Victor Mee Auctioneers in conjunction with Niall Mullen showcases items from the 18th century to the present day. The auction of 1,214 lots is online today and tomorrow and includes items from the collection of late antique dealer and owner of Beaufield Mews Jill Cox.
Lot 282 is this Georgian bow fronted chest (€300-€500). UPDATE: THIS MADE 300 AT HAMMER
This set of four Irish silver candlesticks made in Dublin c1760 features at Sotheby’s New York sale of European Furniture, Silver and Ceramics running online until April 19. There are no makers marks but the set is estimated at $12,000-$18,000. Other Irish lots on the catalogue include an Irish George II Revival mahogany side table with marble top and a silver porringer. UPDATE: THESE SOLD FOR $20,160
Among the lots at the evening sale of The Fitzwilliam Square collection at Adams, Blackrock, Dublin today (April 13) is this ornate 19th century giltwood Irish pier mirror. There is a canopied pediment above seated figures flanked by birds and scrolled rockwork branches carved with dogs. It is conservatively estimated at €1,000-€1,500. There are 432 lots of fine art, furniture and silver and the auction gets underway at 6 pm.
Giltwood Irish pier mirror. UPDATE: THIS MADE 9,500 AT HAMMER
Watercolours, sketches and oil paintings from the studio of Fergus O’Ryan, who died in 1989 and was at one time one of Ireland’s most popular artists, are at a timed online sale at James Adam in Dublin until April 21. The “Travels, Painter and Palette” sale draws on his love of travel and penchant for locations that were off the beaten track. There are Dublin and Connemara views as well as work from France, Spain, Greece and Italy. He and his wife May were keen hikers and much of his work is from the 1950’s, before mass travel and tourism began. He painted in Girona and Salamanca in Spain and made art in Venice and Santorini. Estimates range from €100-€800 and proceeds will be donated to Our Lady’s Hospice. Born in 1910 Fergus O’Ryan studied at the School of Art in his native Limerick, moved to Dublin, lectured at the National College of Art and was a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy.
UPDATE: THE auction was completely sold out. Many lots sold above estimate and the top lot was a view of the 12 Pins in Connemara which made €3,400 at hammer.
A view, possibly Santorini. UPDATE: THIS MADE €480 AT HAMMER
The Northern Irish artist Charlie Whisker has died. His work is in the collections of the Arts Council, Allied Irish Banks, the Ulster Museum and private collectors such as members of U2, Steven Soderberg, John Boorman, Paul McGuinness and Henry Mountcharles. Born in 1949 he taught at the NCAD in the 1980’s and worked as a video director in Los Angeles with artists including Bob Dylan in the 1980’s. He was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers at the age of 63.
ONCE BELOW A TIME by Charlie Whisker, with The Titanic in the background, sold for €2,900 at Whyte’s in 2012
Decorative and fine arts from the London and country homes of Mrs. Henry Ford at Eaton Square and Turville Grange, Oxfordshire will come under the hammer at Christie’s on April 15. The sale is led by Impressionist works including a self portrait by Edouard Vuillard. The decorative arts are led by a Louis XV ormolu-mounted Chinese black-lacquer commode by Laurent Felix and a George III Pembroke table attributed to Thomas Chippendale. Silver includes a George VI silver cigar box inset with grass from the sod cut by Edsel Ford in 1929 when breaking ground for the Dagenham Ford motor factory.
Louis XV c1755 black lacquered commode. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £137,500. THE SALE REALISED £3.98 MILLION
