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    KAHLO MAKES NEW WORLD RECORD FOR A FEMALE ARTIST

    Friday, November 21st, 2025

    FRIDA KAHLO – EL SUENO (LA CAMA)

    Frida Kahlo’s 1940 self portrait The Dream, the Bed sold for $54,660,000 at Sotheby’s in New York last night to become the most expensive work ever by a female artist. It surpassed the record for Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 which sold for $44.4 million in 2014.

    The painting shows Kahlo asleep in a wooden, colonial-style bed that floats. Above the bed lies a skeleton figure wrapped in dynamite. The artist depicted herself and her life. Injured in a bus accident aged 18 she began to paint whilst bedridden with a damaged spine and pelvis. She wore casts until her death in 1954 at age 47. The buyer’s identity was not revealed.

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    GILLESPIE MAQUETTE FOR YEATS SCULPTURE AT WHYTE’S

    Thursday, November 20th, 2025

    Rowan Gillespie (b.1953) – MAQUETTE FOR W.B. YEATS, SLIGO, 1989. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    This maquette for the sculpture of W.B. Yeats erected outside Ulster Bank on Stephen Street, Sligo is at Whyte’s sale of Important Irish Art on December 1 with an estimate of €15,000-€20,000. It was jointly commissioned by the Adhoc Yeats Sculpture Committee, Ulster Bank and the local community. The bronze was placed in position in May 1990 to mark the 50th anniversary of the poet’s death.  Viewing for the auction at Whyte’s is now underway at Molesworth St. in Dublin and the catalogue is online.

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    EARLY VICTORIAN WORKBOX AT REILLY’S SALE

    Thursday, November 20th, 2025

    Early Victorian fitted mahogany workbox UPDATE: THIS MADE 600 AT HAMMER

    This quality early Victorian workbox is at Reilly’s live auction in Prosperous, Co. Kildare on November 22. The estimate is €900-€1,100. The auction of 447 lots will include contents from several houses and features rugs, mirrors, a selection of antique furniture, art and collectibles. The catalogue is online.

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    IRISH PAINTINGS AND WHISKEY AT DOLAN’S TIMED ONLINE SALE

    Wednesday, November 19th, 2025

    Cecil Maguire – Easter Light on Inishmaan. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    Irish Paintings by artists including Cecil Maguire, Arthur Maderson, Charles Harper, Markey Robinson, Arthur Armstrong, Mat Grogan, Frank Egginton, George Campbell, Manus Walsh, George Gillespie and others feature at Dolan’s online auction which runs until November 24. The auction offers a collection of more than 70 Irish whiskeys, mostly Very Rare Midleton, along with collectibles, stamps and books.

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    KLIMT’S PORTRAIT OF ELISABETH LEDERER MAKES $236.4 MILLION

    Wednesday, November 19th, 2025

    Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer – sold for $236.4 million.

    Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer by Klimt made $236.4 million at Sotheby’s in New York last night to become the most expensive auction sale of a modern work of art. This was the second highest price ever paid for a work of art at auction. The most expensive artwork sold at auction this year was from the collection of Leonard Lauder, philanthropist, cosmetics magnate and legendary collector who died aged 92 last June. He donated his $1 billion Cubist art collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

    The $706 million total for the night included the white glove sale of 24 lots from the Lauder collection which brought in $456.2 million. The first Sotheby’s auction at the Breuer Building made the highest total ever achieved by Sotheby’s for a one night auction. The Now and Contemporary sale brought in $178.5 million.

    The record for a work of art sold at auction is Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, sold by Christie’s for $450.3 million in 2017. In 2022 Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn sold for $195 million at Christie’s and this record has now been surpassed.

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for November 1, 2025)

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    PALPABLE ENERGY AT ART SALES NOW UNDERWAY IN NEW YORK

    Tuesday, November 18th, 2025

    MARK ROTHKO (1903-1970) – No. 31 (Yellow Stripe)

    Great depth of bidding, numerous artist records, and palpable energy marked the opening night of Christie’s Marquee Week in New York, where the auction house achieved exceptional results for two premier sales: The Collection of Robert F. and Patricia G. Ross Weis and the 20th Century Evening Sale. In a packed, energetic saleroom at Rockefeller Center, and with active online bidders, the two sales achieved a total of $689,795,000 million, were 96% sold by lot, 97% sold by value.

    The top lot of the evening was Mark Rothko’s No. 31 (Yellow Stripe) from the Weis collection. It work sold for $62,160,000 to a bidder on the phone after a fierce four-minute and 40-second bidding battle—also securing the highest online bid ever for a live auction at Christie’s. Another highlight of the collection was La Lecture, a portrait of Marie-Therese by Pablo Picasso which made $45,485,000.

    The top lot from the 20th Century Evening sale was Claude Monet’s Nymphéas from the collection of Japan’s Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art. It made $45,485,000

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    EARLY DEPICTION OF STEAM DRIVEN WARSHIPS

    Monday, November 17th, 2025

    Two 90 Gun Ships of the Line entering Cork Harbour by George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson at Morgan O’Driscoll’s sale on November 24 should arouse much interest. It adorned the cover of Peter Murray’s book Maritime Paintings of Cork written to coincide with a popular exhibition of the same name at the Port of Cork hq in 2005 and is one of Atkinson’s more ambitious works.  With three masts, steam engines and single funnels these are an early manifestation of steam driven warships.  As they enter the harbour following another steamship a frigate with sails unfurled is leaving. It is flying the Blue Peter, known as the departure flag. A cutter in the foreground is possibly the Cork pilot boat.

    UPDATE: THIS MADE 25,000 AT HAMMER

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    15th CENTURY ALTARPIECE AT SHEPPARDS UPCOMING AUCTION

    Sunday, November 16th, 2025

    A  15th century Northern European altarpiece is among the highlights at Sheppards sale in Durrow on November 25 and 26. More than 1,200 lots of fine and decorative art, silver, furniture and sculpture drawn from Irish and international collections will be on offer including a Qing Dynasty silk wall hanging from Abbeyleix House.  The altarpiece is estimated at €25,000-€45,000.

    UPDATE: THIS MADE €36,000 AT HAMMER

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    IRELAND’S WINTER ART SALE SEASON NOW UNDERWAY

    Saturday, November 15th, 2025
    Mick Jagger by Andy Warhol at Art Source at the RDS.

    The winter art sale season with a feast in store is kick started in Ireland this weekend by Art Source at the RDS. With more than 200 artists and galleries this is Ireland’s largest art fair with a huge selection of affordable art. Highlights include a portrait of Mick Jagger by Andy Warhol and work by Tracey Emin exhibited by Gormleys. Expected to draw more than 15,000 visitors the event features the Irish debut of Naples based Fonderia Artistica Ruocco.

    This is a prelude to the season’s major sales of important Irish art.  An online sale by Morgan O’Driscoll on November 24 with highlights by Yeats, O’Malley, Blackshaw and George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson will be followed by Dublin auctions by de Veres and Gormleys on November 25.  Roderic O’Conor, William Leech, Paul Henry, Yeats and Mainie Jellett are at de Veres. Adams on November 26 offers art by Paul Henry, Yeats, Harry Clarke, Camille Souter, Gerard Dillon, Mary Swanzy and Hughie O’Donoghue. Among the highlights at Whyte’s on December 1 is work by John Luke, Paul Henry, Grace Henry, Frank McKelvey, Louis le Brocquy, Rowan Gillespie, Donald Teskey and John Behan. 

    Nature Morte by Roderic O’Conor at de Veres. UPDATE: THIS MADE 115,000 AT HAMMER

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    ART SOURCE AT THE RDS THIS WEEKEND

    Thursday, November 13th, 2025
    Dawn at the Forty Foot by Olivier Demé at Art Source

    Art Source, Ireland’s largest art fair, is at the RDS from November 14-16. It offers a selection of affordable art and a range of pieces from artists like Tracey Emin and Andy Warhol. The event will feature the Irish debut of Fonderia Artistica Ruocco – a foundry from Naples, Italy.  And spray-paint artist Hernán González and mural artist SOLUS will bring Dublin street art to the RDS.  

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