An unframed, unsigned pencil sketch – “Bridge over the Awbeg at Buttevant Castle” – comes up at Aidan Foley’s online auction at Doneraile today. Lot 301 dates to the 1840’s and seems to be in good condition. A purchaser might set out to solve the mystery of who made it. The auction features a broad mix of antique furniture and collectible items as well as art by Albert Hartland, Arthur Maderson, Pauline Bewick, Con Campbell, Lorna Miller, Marie Carroll and others.
A selection of furniture, art, silver , garden furniture and jewellery will come under the hammer at Hegarty’s online sale in Bandon tomorrow. Among the highlights are an 18th century Irish silver teapot made in Dublin in 1796 and a silver fork by the Limerick maker Maurice Fitzgerald. Lots of note include an exceptional pair of bronze garden classical lions and a mid 18th century Irish Georgian tea table.
This unsigned 1840’s pencil sketch “Bridge over the Awbeg River at Buttevant Castle” UPDATE: THIS MADE 140 AT HAMMER
THIS portrait of Elizabeth Fitzgerald, the Irish noblewoman who was Countess of Lincoln, lady in waiting and close friend of Queen Elizabeth I, is part of an exhibition of Elizabethan portraits now on at the National Gallery of Ireland. Born in Maynooth and daughter of the 9th Earl of Kildare she was a member of the Fitzgerald dynasty and known as The Fair Geraldine. Silken Thomas, who was executed for treason, was her half brother. This is the first full exhibition of colourful and engaging Elizabethan portraits in the collection. It features portraits of well-known sixteenth-century historical figures, from politicians to soldiers, royal suitors to adventurers. Portraits include Elizabeth I and her lover Robert Dudley; Sir Walter Ralegh and his wife Lady Ralegh; and the Earl of Ormond. The exhibition runs until October 3.
This 1960’s lounge chair by Luigi Vietta and produced by Fratelli Besana comes up as lot 23 at Mullen’s Classic and Contemporary Interiors sale at Laurel Park, Bray, Co. Wicklow on June 7. It is estimated at 340-440. The sale of 798 lots gets underway at 6 pm.
Cottages in Achill by Paul Henry made a hammer price of 210,000 over a top estimate of 160,000 at the James Adam sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin this evening. Another top lot was an original copy of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic signed by the printer Christoper Brady. Inscribed on the rear is that it was obtained in Sackville St., Dublin on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. It made a hammer price of 170,000 over an estimate of 150,000-200,000.
This mid 18th century Irish Georgian fold over tea table comes up at Hegarty’s online auction in Bandon, Co. Cork on June 6 with an estimate of €1,000-€1,400. The sale will include two Cork family collections from Oysterhaven and Kinsale and offers a variety of antique furniture, silver, art and jewellery. A late 18th century Limerick silver fork by Maurice Fitzgerald is estimated at €850-1,000. UPDATE: THE TABLE MADE 1,000 AT HAMMER. THE LIMERICK SILVER FORK MADE 700.
An Important Imperial Presentation jewelled gold and guilloché enamel snuffbox, by workmaster Nikolai Chernokov, Bolin, St Petersburg, 1908-1917 comes up at Sotheby’s sale of Russian Works of Art, Fabergé & Icons which runs in London from today until June 9. It was presented to Vice Admiral Count Carl August Ehrensvärd (1858-1944) by Emperor Nicholas II during his state visit to Sweden in 1909 and is estimated at £200,000-300,000. The cypher of Emperor Nicholas II set with rose-cut diamonds is applied to the lid. The sale brings together an unprecedented group of imperial presentation pieces and a rare group of twenty-four Russian Military Orders from an Important Swiss Collection, including a rare Collar of the Order of St Andrew and a seldom seen diamond-set, silver-topped, gold-mounted and enamel Grand Cross set of insignia for the Order of St Catherine, circa 1890.
William Crozier HRHA (1930 – 2011) The Inlet UPDATE: THIS MADE 20,000 AT HAMMER
The Inlet by William Crozier is lot 17 at the online sale of Important Irish Art at James Adam this evening. It is estimated at 20,000-30,000. The catalogue lists 149 lots and offers work by Paul Henry, Jack B. Yeats and Camille Souter. The sale gets underway at 6 pm in Dublin.
This 1943 painting of Loughshinny Harbour, Co. Dublin by Patrick Leonard made a hammer price of €34,000 at Whyte’s Irish and International Art auction on May 31. It had been estimated at €12,000-€18,000 and was a new record for an oil by the artist (a pastel made €40,000 in 2006). The sale grossed just under €900,000 with 80% of the 160 lots sold. The top price was €160,000 for a Jack Yeats oil depicting a horse and jockey – Muldoon and Rattlesnake, €10,000 above the top estimate. Seán Keating’s Thinking Out Gobnet – including a portrait of Harry Clarke in the scene – made €58,000 while an ink drawn illustration by Harry Clarke sold for over twice its pre-sale estimate at €12,500.
David Bowie had a lifelong obsession with flying saucers. He claimed to have seen three from Hampstead Heath when he was a child. This artwork, which comes up at Whyte’s Irish and International art sale this evening, was originally created in New York in November 1974 during his Stateside Diamond Dogs Tour. The printed version and installation was first shown at the Biennale di Firenze Art Show in September 1996.
DAVID BOWIE (1947-2016) – SAUCER II, 1996 (2,000-3,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,200 AT HAMMER
Historical Irish advertising material assembled over 40 years by a private collector in the south east will come under the hammer at a two day sale by Sheppards in Durrow on June 10 and 11. They mark the changes over the years from 1880 to 1990 with everything from a c1890 Gouldings Manures Clock to a fez wearing turkey on a c1962 Aer Lingus ad encouraging people to send their turkey gift by air. Believe it or not Aer Lingus an annual week long airlift of Irish turkeys to London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff and Bristol.There is a rare Art Deco poster from around 1925 for Craven A cigarettes designed by Jean d’Ylen (1886-1938), a French Impressionist and Modern artist. You could make it a Merry Christmas with Tayto or travel to Australia via The Cape. Another rarity is the Persses Galway Irish Whiskey from the Nun’s Island distillery which closed in 1908, An 1896 ad for an Albionette oil stove is by Dudley Hardy (1867-1922), the poster artist credited with pioneering the British commercial art style.
A Dudley Hardy designed ad from 1896. UPDATE: THIS MADE 240 AT HAMMER
