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    WHYTE’S PRESENT REPLICA OF HISTORIC PAINTING TO CORK CHURCH

    Saturday, January 14th, 2017
    A replica of an historic painting of The Consecration of St. Mary’s, Pope’s Quay, has been presented by Dublin auctioneer’s Whyte’s to the Cork Dominican church and priory. The original was sold by Whyte’s in September 2015.  It was bought for the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger  Museum at Quinnipiac University, Connecticut. They paid 19,000 on the hammer for the c1842 work estimated at 8,000-10,000.  St. Mary’s was the disappointed underbidder.
    “We felt very sorry that they didn’t get it” said Ian Whyte. “We got permission from the Famine Museum to create a full sized replica and this was finally completed and framed just before Christmas and we were delighted it arrived at St. Mary’s, where it can be appreciated by the people of Cork and visitors to the city”.
    The work had been presented to Kearns Deane, architect of St. Mary’s and had been passed down through the Deane family. At the time it was auctioned it had not been seen in public since being shown at the RHA in 1842. It depicts the ceremony in the newly built catholic church shortly after Catholic emancipation and includes the figure of Daniel O’Connell in the congregation.  The foundation stone of St. Mary’s was laid in 1832 and it opened in 1839. The Cork artist James Mahony is best known for his harrowing illustrations of the Irish famine for the Illustrated London News.  According to art historian Dr. Julian Campbell his illustrations were admired by, among others, Vincent van Gogh.
    St. Mary’s have placed the painting in the sanctuary and will install overhead lighting to ensure that it can be easily seen and appreciated by all visitors.

    THE CONSECRATION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST. MARY’S, POPE’S QUAY, CORK, c.1842 by James Mahony RHA (c.1815-c.1859).

    The replica of the work being admired at St. Mary’s by Fr. Gerard Dunne, Prior and Mr. John O’Flynn

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    HIGHLIGHTS FROM UPCOMING LONDON ART SALES AT SOTHEBY’S, HONG KONG

    Friday, January 13th, 2017

    An exhibition of highlights from Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art, Surrealist Art and Contemporary Art evening sales in London on March 1 and 8 will run on Hong Kong for the next three days.  It will include paintings by some of the most sought-after artists from Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse to Gerhard Richter and Yves Klein, Wassily Kandinsky, Francis Picabia and a small model of Rodin’s Penseur from the collection of Lord and Lady Attenborough estimated at £800,000-1 million.  Here is a sample:

    YVES KLEIN – UNTITLED MONOGOLD (MG 47) (£700,000-900,000)

    MARC CHAGALL – GRAND COQ BLANC (£1-1.5 MILLION).

     

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    SHOW OF WORKS BY CARAVAGGIO NOT SEEN IN IRELAND BEFORE

    Saturday, January 7th, 2017
    Never before seen in Ireland works by Caravaggio will feature at an upcoming exhibition at the National Gallery in Dublin   Beyond Caravaggio, which runs from February 11 to May 14, will feature two works by the artist which have not been seen here before – Boy Bitten by a Lizard from the collection of the National Gallery in London and Boy Peeling Fruit from the Royal Collection in the UK.  The other works by the artist in the show are The Supper at Emmaus from the National Gallery in London and The Taking of Christ from the collection of Ireland’s National Gallery.
    With his dramatic use of light and uncompromising realism Caravaggio is acknowledged as bringing a revolution to painting during the Baroque period. This exhibition features over 40 works which show how he influenced other artists. These include Valentin de Boulogne’s Concert with Three Figures, Georges de La Tour’s Dice Players and Nicolas Regnier’s St. Sebastian being tended by St. Irene.  Many works in this show –  a collaboration between the National Galleries of Ireland, London and Scotland – are on loan from private collections and regional galleries.

    Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) – Boy Peeling Fruit.

    Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) – Boy Bitten by a Lizard.

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    SKI POSTERS AT CHRISTIE’S INTERIORS SALE

    Wednesday, January 4th, 2017

    Posters evoking a glamorous era of travel will feature at Christie’s in South Kensington, London on January 11. The sale of interiors including the ski sale will offer 100 posters by the most sought after artists depicting iconic resorts. Estimates start at £1,200 and range up to £30,000.  Here is a small selection:

    JOHANNES HANDSCHIN (1899-1948) VILLARS (£5,000-7,000) © Christie’s Images Limited 2016

    Francisco Tamagno (1851-1933) CHAMONIX MONT-BLANC (£8,000-12,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE £17,500  © Christie’s Images Limited 2016

    Emil Cardinaux (1877-1936) ZERMATT (£8,000-12,000) © Christie’s Images Limited 2016  UPDATE: THIS MADE £10,000

    Roger Broders (1883-1953) SPORTS D’HIVER DANS LES VOSGES (£6,000-8,000).© Christie’s Images Limited 2016

    Emil Cardinaux (1877-1936)
    JUNGFRAUBAHN (£3,000-5,000) © Christie’s Images Limited 2016

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    RARE 16TH CENTURY PORTRAIT BOUND FOR TEFAF

    Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017
    Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) Portrait of an African Woman Holding a Clock, circa 1585

    Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) Portrait of an African Woman Holding a Clock, circa 1585

    A rare late 16th century portrait of An African Woman holding a Clock by Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) will be brought to TEFAF, The European Fine Art Fair at Maastricht by Tomasso Brothers Fine Art. A full provenance for the work by the renowned Italian Baroque artist has been established and it includes King Philip V of Spain and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. The oil on canvas portrait was painted circa 1585 and depicts a finely dressed African woman holding a gilded clock and commanding a direct gaze.  She wears a necklace of coral, pearl earrings, and intriguingly presents to the viewer a timepiece of extreme luxury and technological advancement, perhaps reflecting the sitter’s, or patron’s, modernity and intellect.

    During the 1580s Annibale Carracci was painting the most radical and innovative pictures in Europe. He introduced a new, broken brushwork technique to represent the effects of light on form, which gave his works an intimacy and immediacy.

    In-depth research by Leeds and London based Tomasso Brothers has revealed the rich history of this unusual painting; it passed from the studio of the artist Carlo Maratti (1625-1713) to Philip V of Spain via one of Maratti’s disciples, Andrea Procaccini (1671-1734), who was painter to Phillip V and in charge of decorating the monarch’s new palace San Ildefonso in Segovia.  In August 1812 the painting was made a gift to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, along with 11 other works, following his stay at San Ildefonso Palace during the Spanish War of Independence.  It remained in a private collection until sold by Christie’s London in 2005.  The work was shown at The Walters Art Museum and Princeton University Art Museum (USA 2013) in the exhibition ‘Revealing the African presence in Renaissance Europe’. TEFAF is at Maastricht from March 10-19.

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    ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF TURNER WATERCOLOURS AT NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND

    Sunday, January 1st, 2017
    JMW Turner (1775-1851) Sunset over Petworth Park, Sussex, c.1828 Photo © National Gallery of Ireland

    JMW Turner (1775-1851)
    Sunset over Petworth Park, Sussex, c.1828
    Photo © National Gallery of Ireland

    The annual exhibition of works by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) displayed for the month of January at the National Gallery of Ireland gets underway today. For over a century the Gallery has followed the stipulations set out by the art collector Henry Vaughan in a bequest; that 31 watercolours covering the entire career of one of the great masters of British painting were to be exhibited to the public all at one time, free of charge, during the month of January. This is the month when daylight is low and at its least damaging level.

    Inspired by the writings of John Ruskin the collector Henry Vaughan (1809-1899) decided to gift his collection of Turner watercolours to the National Galleries of Ireland, England and Scotland. This year, alongside the much loved Vaughan bequest, the National Gallery of Ireland will display a selection of Turner’s Liber Studiorum prints.  Turner embarked on his most important publishing venture the Liber Studiorum – or drawing book – in 1807.  The series of over 70 prints was conceived as a visual treatise on landscape and art and made his work accessible to a wide audience.  The show runs to January 31.

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    MORE ONLINE BIDDING AND NEW YOUNGER BUYERS

    Saturday, December 31st, 2016
    Red Earth VI by Hughie O'Donoghue sold for a hammer price of 28,000 at Morgan O'Drsicoll

    Red Earth VI by Hughie O’Donoghue sold for a hammer price of 28,000 at Morgan O’Drsicoll

    In 2016 the most notable antique and art market trends are an increasing use of online bidding and a growth in younger, wealthy buyers.  This will impact on taste in the year to come.

    In Ireland younger buyers new to a market are that has been dominated for what seems like forever by Yeats, Henry, Orpen, Lavery et al are more likely to opt for more cutting edge contemporary work into the future.  The most expensive artwork sold in the winter season of Dublin art sales was a pastel on paper entitled 1.6.92 by Sean Scully which made 165,000 at hammer at de Veres.
    Research by art and antiques search engine aggregator Barnebys – covering 1,600 auction houses carrying half a million objects at any one time – shows that about 35% of bids now come in over the internet.  Millennials are logging on to buy, instead of searching the high street. Growth by younger buyers is anticipated. The environmental aspect of buying at auction – upmarket recycling – appeals in particular to this segment. Another consequence of the internet is that auctioneers are making huge savings by cutting back on the number of catalogues they print, using online catalogues instead.
    This year the market performed strongly at the top. Auctioneers are increasingly focused on the middle and lower markets. Unique items – think of Marilyn Monroe’s Happy Birthday Mr. President dress making $4 million on the hammer at Juliens – are achieving prices not seen since 1990 and before the 2008 crash.  The middle market is struggling but the lower end is growing, thanks to the internet.
    The real excitement for new investors in emerging art markets is in contemporary African and Indian art, Latin American art and Cuban art. Barneby’s predicts that there will be an increasing focus on African art, and this will include sculpture. In terms of auction results right now artists from South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana are leading the pack.
    Globally the hunt is on for female artists.  Gallery owners, dealers and museums will place great emphasis on finding new artists and the best works by artists like Georgia O’Keeffe, Louise Bourgeois, Irma Stern and Frida Kahlo. These four already enjoy high profiles and achieve strong prices at auction.
    Another growth area is 20th century design.  Demand has been growing since the late 1990’s and it is expected that this will continue.

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    HONG LING AT CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY

    Friday, December 30th, 2016
    Hong LIng - A Peak in Reds.

    Hong LIng – A Peak of Reds.

    The retrospective by Hong Ling continues at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin until January 29.  It charts the development of Hong Ling’s art from student paintings in his personal collection to his vast later works painted in oil and in ink. Born in Beijing in 1955, the artist Hong Ling studied oil painting in the years after the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–76). In the mountains of rural China, however, his brush found a new path. Drawing together the imported medium of oil on canvas with the landscapes and philosophies of China’s artistic heritage, Hong Ling has made a contribution to the world of Chinese landscape painting unparalleled in its vibrancy.

    Working from his studio in the foothills of the Yellow Mountains of China’s Anhui Province, Hong Ling reveals the charged atmosphere of this dramatic locale from the bold colours of the shifting seasons to the heavy mists that weave among pine-clad peaks. As exhilarating as they are immersive, Hong Ling’s paintings stand as an invitation to join him in the landscape that is his home and his inspiration.
    The exhibition is part of a touring retrospective sponsored by UNEEC Culture and Education Foundation, Taiwan, and organised with Soka Art and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.  It follows Hong Ling’s recent retirement from the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, where he taught oil painting since 1987.  The show will travel on to Bath from Dublin.

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    A HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OUR VIEWERS AND READERS

    Saturday, December 24th, 2016
    The Holy Family with an Angel by Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) © Christie’s Images Limited 2016

    The Holy Family with an Angel by Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) © Christie’s Images Limited 2016

    We wish everyone who enjoys antiquesandartireland.com a very Happy Christmas.  Here is a seasonal image of The Holy Family with an Angel by Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). It was the top lot at Christie’s Old Masters evening sale in London this month. Jordaens succeeded Rubens as the leading painter in Antwerp in 1640. After the death of Rubens in that year he became the most important painter in Antwerp for large scale commissions.

    He painted altar pieces and mythological and allegorical scenes. As well as being a successful painter he was a prominent designer of tapestries.  In this painting his use of realistic models, the rustic presentation of religious subjects and dramatic use of light and shade point to the influence of Caravaggio. It sold for £1.8 million.  Bidders from 28 countries took part in the auction.

    It has been a great year for Old Masters at Christie’s with global sales of around £152 million.  Ruben’s masterpiece Lot and his Daughters which can be found elsewhere on this website sold for £44.9 million in July, the highest auction price for any work of art sold in Europe this year.

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    FOX HEAD STIRRUP CUPS AT CORK AUCTION ROOMS

    Friday, December 23rd, 2016

    home5a_tA collection of four Fox head stirrup cups will be a feature at the sale at Cork Auction Rooms on December 28.  Such cups are rare and of interest to specialist collectors.  One sold for 1,500 at Cork Auction Rooms two years ago. On offer this time is a pair of  Fox Head form stirrup cups and a  pair of Victorian Staffordshire stirrup cups in the form of fox hounds.  Each pair is estimated at 600-1,200.  A pair of Jack B. Yeats pen and ink cartoons and letters to his sister Susan  – “Two Dublin debutants exercising themselves close by O’ Connell Bridge” and “The turnip sculptor” – are estimated at 6,000-8,000.  A c1835 Georgian Irish mahogany sideboard with acanthus leaf decoration on barley twist supports is estimated at 1,800-2,500 and the sale will feature a selection miniature portraits and silhouettes.

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