Flowers by the Window by Norah McGuinness. UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,600 AT HAMMER
From Patrick Collins and Donald Teskey to Andy Warhol and John Behan the sale by Morgan O’Driscoll which runs until October 21 is brimful of colourful interest. This Irish and International online art auction kicks off with a Percy French watercolour of a bog landscape with gorse (€1,500-€2,500) and has an estimate range from €500 to €120,000-€160,000 for Cottages on Achill Sound, an oil on canvas by Paul Henry.
There are 1980’s screenprints of Ingrid Bergman and Jane Fonda by Andy Warhol and a study towards an image of Federico Garcia Lorca by Louis le Brocquy among the leading lots. A View of Fez by Sir John Lavery dates to 1919 and is estimated at €70,000-€100,000. The selection of sculpture is headed by John Behan’s Bantry Famine Ship (€15,000-€25,000) and offers work by Jacob Epstein, Ian Pollock, Michael Foley, Rory Breslin and Liam Flynn. The sale, with 155 lots in total, is on view at the RDS in Dublin on today, tomorrow and Monday and the catalogue is online.
Jane Fonda (1982) by Andy Warhol. UPDATE: THIS MADE 28,000 AT HAMMER
Petalas coffee table in jacaranda by Jorge Zalszupin at Adams. UPDATE: THIS MADE 10,000 AT HAMMER
Interiors created by architect designers like William Morris, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, Cesar Manrique and Jorge Zalszupin have a seductive appeal that withstands the constant ebb and flow of fashion and is timeless.
Auctions underway in Ireland right now challenge chic antique home designers to build their own timeless lnteriors in genres that range from Mid Century Modern at James Adam to Irish Vernacular by Victor Mee, silver and collectibles at Woodwards and the contents of Cork antique shop Salvagem by Mitchelstown based Ray Alley Auctioneering.
The pickings are rich and mostly affordable, though it must be said that you will not come across objects like Zalszupin’s Petalas coffee table in Jacaranda every day. At €10,000-€15,000 it is among the most expensively estimated lots at Adams in Dublin on October 21. The noted Jewish Polish Brazilian architect designer, who died aged 98 in 2000, founded L’Atelier in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1959. The iconic Petalas table captures many of his core concerns like minimal ornament, excellence in material, structural innovation and an approach to modernism that is lyrical.
The sale at Adams offers furniture by Eileen Gray, Finn Juhl, Arne Jacobsen, Niels Otto Muller, Arne Vodder, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, Gerrit Rietveld, le Corbusier, Charles Eames, Monika Graffeo and a range of illustrious designers. There is art by Anselm Kiefer, Alexander Calder, Gerard Byrne, John Boyd, Patrick Graham, Merlin James, Picasso, Georges Rouault, Elizabeth Magill, Liam Belton, Sean Scully and others along with a selection of rugs, lighting and collectible objects.
A silver freedom box at Woodwards sale today. UPDATE: THIS MADE 5,250 AT HAMMER
Irish and English silver, art, militaria and various collectibles will come under the hammer online at Woodwards from 10 am today. The sale is headed by an 1808 silver freedom box by Kean Mahony of Cork with Dublin assay marks (€8,000-€12,000) and a large Birds in Flight bronze by John Behan (€6,000-€10,000). There is Cork and Irish silver including a pair of c1760 salvers by William Reynolds, Cork, a large silver bowl by Padraig O Mathuna with Dublin hallmarks for 1974, a pair of c1780 serving spoons by Maurice Fitzgerald, Limerick and a London silver tea set.
Collectors will find everything from an early 19th century Irish settle bench and a scumbled pine kitchen cupboard to spongeware, a dug out chair, painted pine dressers and hand cut limestone troughs at Victor Mee’s Irish vernacular sale on October 19. These were staples of rural Irish homes made by local people using materials to hand.
A 19th century painted pine dresser from Co. Clare at Victor Mee. UPDATE: THIS MADE 900 AT HAMMER
Irish spongeware pottery made from clay is loved for its colourful decoration and the sale offers a selection of Irish and French pieces. There are floor candle holders and a rare rush light holder from Co. Fermanagh, kitchen tables, chairs, milking stools, a cast iron skillet pot, banks of drawers, wall racks and a 19th century pine washboard in a selection of over 700 lots calculated to stir many old memories of an Ireland that is now vanished.
Antique furniture, rugs, collectibles and lighting from Salvagem, the McCurtain St., Cork antique shop which closed last month, will be auctioned today at the Metropole Hotel in Cork and online by Ray Alley Auctioneering of Mitchelstown. Estimates are very reasonable and the catalogue is online. Salvagem operated since 2020 in an era when many antique shops have been lost. Salvagem owner Michael Wall hopes to continue with an online shop.
A Cork Regency sofa table at the sale of contents from Salvagem antique shop today. UPDATE: THIS MADE 300 AT HAMMER
Paul Henry (1876-1958) – Cottages on Achill Sound. UPDATE: THIS MADE 120,000 AT HAMMER
Cottages on Achill Sound by Paul Henry is the leading lot at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish and International online art sale which runs until October 21. From a private Dublin collection it is estimated at €120,000-€160,000. Viewing for this auction with 155 lots gets underway today at the Minerva Suite at the RDS in Dublin and continues until October 20. The catalogue is online.
JANE O’MALLEY (1944-2023) – GULL EVENING, 1996. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 750
Gull Evening, an oil on board by Jane O’Malley, is lot 152 at Whyte’s autumn online art sale which runs until October 20. The oil and gesso on board is estimated at €800-€1,200. The sale of 277 affordable lots is on view at Molesworth St. over the coming weekend.
Peter Doig – Ski Jacket (1994) sold for €16,381,960
The highest total for a Frieze Week sale in London in seven years was achieved last night when Christie’s London evening sale made £106,925,400. Peter Doig’s Ski Jacket was the top lot of the evening making £16.3 million against an estimate of £6/8million and there was world records for Paula Rego, Suzanne Valadon, Annie Morris and Esben Weile Kjær. Peter Doig’s Country Rock made £9.2 million, Lucian Freud’s Self Portrait fragment made £7.6 million, Gerhard Richter’s Tulpen made £6.1 million and Cezanne’s Maison de Bellevue et pigeonnier made £5.5 million.
PAULA REGO (1935-2022) – Dancing Ostriches from Walt Disney’s Fantasia made £3.4 million.
CIRCLE OF JOHN WOOTTON (1682-1764) – A Race on the Beacon Course at Newmarket Races with the Prince of Wales and other Noblemen in the Foreground
A rare officer’s dress sword with gold and diamonds was the top lot at the James Adam Country House Collections sale at Townley Hall. The sword was Presented by the East India Company to Lt. Col. Barry Close (1756-1813) and made a hammer price of €280,000. A painting of a race at Newmarket from the Circle of John Wootton made €55,000; an American silver gilt dinner service made €36,000: a painting of the Hawkesbury River in Australia by Girolamo Nerli (1860-1926) made €32,000; A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World by John Speed made €18,000 and a Louis XV style bureau made €16,000.
David Hockney – The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) – 4 January UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £304,800
The Arrival of Spring is the title of the David Hockey sale at Sotheby’s in London on October 17. There are 17 limited edition iPad drawings printed in colours on wove paper on offer ranging from January to June of that year. Estimates are from £80,000-£180,000.
FRANZ WEST (1947-2012) – BLUE LUCK. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £285,750
Franz West began producing his beloved large-scale, brightly painted tubular and bulbous sculptures in the mid-1990s, initially in welded sheets of aluminium and later in fibreglass. Many of them include places to sit. Blue Luck, constructed of fibreglass, epoxy resin and lacquer, is lot 31 at Christie’s 20th/21st Century evening sale in London on October 15 with an estimate of £300,000-£500,000. The sale offers revolutions in art making from Impressionism to Modernism with art by Paul Cezanne, Paul Signac, Lucian Freud, Gerhard Richter, Paul Rego, Peter Doig, Chris Ofili and Jean Michel Basquiat among the 61 lots on offer.
The Picasso exhibition now underway at the National Gallery in Dublin offers insightful paintings, sculpture, ceramics, works on paper and photographic work. This show places Picasso in the context of his studios and explores key locations that inspired him from his arrival in Paris at the start of the 20th century to his studio at Villa La Californie (1955-1961) at Cannes.
The personal life and work of the most innovative and influential artist of the 20th century were deeply intertwined. His homes and his studios were intimately linked and no space exemplifies this more than the Chateau de Boisgeloup in Normandy, purchased in 1930. Here during an intense love affair with Marie-Therese Walter he created some of his more iconic works. The exhibition presents renowned and lesser known pieces from captivating perspectives by placing works within the context of their creation. Photographic and audio visual work will immerse visitors in his creative spaces from rustic French farmhouses to expansive seafront villas.
Picasso: From the Studio, in collaboration with the Musée Picasso in Paris, traces his diverse phases, styles and passions over more than 50 years through more than 60 works. It runs until next February 22.
Stephen McKenna PPRHA (1939-2017) – Two Melons 1990. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
An oil on canvas by Stephen McKenna entitled Two Melons with an estimate of €4,000-€6,000 will lead the timed online only autumn art sale at Whyte’s which runs until October 20. Among the artists in the sale are Graham Knuttel, Liam O’Neill, Elizabeth Cope, Kenneth Webb, Dan O’Neill, Tony O’Malley, Pauline Bewick, Banks and Picasso. The sale is on view at Whyte’s in Dublin from October 13 and the catalogue is online.
