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An important Symbolist work by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898) comes up at Christie’s sale of Victorian and British Impressionist Art in London on December 12.    Entitled “Evening” it  has been in the same private collection since it was acquired from the artist.  It belongs to a group of works in which Burne-Jones explored the idea of representing cosmic subjects by allegorical figures floating in the night sky.  The estimate is £300,000-500,000.

The sale features 104 works from the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Estimates are from £2,000.  Here is a small flavour of what is on offer:

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., A.R.A., R.W.S. (1833-1898) Hesperus, The Evening Star (£300,000-500,000). Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2013  UPDATE: THIS MADE £506,000

John Singer Sargent, R.A., R.W.S., H.R.S.A. (1856-1925) A Bridge in Venice – pencil and watercolour (£100,000-150,000). Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2013  UPDATE: THIS MADE £98,500

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, R.A. (1802-1873) Neptune (£300,000-500,000). Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2013  UPDATE: THIS MADE £566,500

An off the wall online art auction runs at Morgan O’Driscoll until December 9 at 6.30 p.m.  You can check out all the latest bids online. It is a big sale with just over 300 lots. Here is a small selection:

George Gillespie RUA (1924-1996)
Strandford Lough (1,000-1,500).  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 1,000

Patrick Leonard HRHA (1918-2005)
Hilary and the Kids at the Beach (1,500-2,500). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

Eileen Meaghar – Mountain Stream.  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 850

David Ffrench Le Roy (b.1971)
Chardonnay and Stilton Cheese (700-900).  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 600

Arthur K. Maderson (b.1942)
Point of Sunset (1,500-2,000).  UPDATE: THIS AMDE 1,200

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) The Day’s First Customer (1952) (80,000-120,000) sold for 115,000

Gerard Dillon RHA RUA (1916-1971) The Jockey sold for 92,000 at hammer.

Jack Yeats and Gerard Dillon provided the top lots in a fairly solid sale of Important Irish Art at James Adam in Dublin last night.  The sale realised 1.5 million, the best result at Adams this year, and there was no shortage of bidders for good, fresh to the market works of Irish art.  In this recession there is no silliness in the market, but the result suggests the beginning of a recovery.  Just under 80 per cent of lots on offer sold.

There was much interest in and good prices for artists like Paul Henry, Dan O’Neill, William Conor, Estella Solomons, Harry Kernoff, Tony O’Malley, John Shinnors and Nathanial Hone.  Click on either image to enlarge.

(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for November 27, 2013).

George Stubbs, A.R.A. (1724-1806) James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil (1730-1798), with his hunter Mowbray, resting on a wooded path by a stream (£1.5-2.5 million). Courtesy, Christie’s Images Ltd., 2013.

Claude Lorrain (1600-1682) – A Mediterranean port at sunrise with the Embarkation of Saint Paula for Jerusalem. Christie’s Images Ltd., 2013

A private Irish buyer paid £1,426,500 for a Stubbs portrait at Christie’s sale of Old Master and British Paintings in London last night.  On the face of it this looks like a real bargain.  The painting of James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Clanbrassil (1730-1798), with his bay hunter Mowbray, resting on a wooded path by a lake had been estimated at £1.5-2.5 million. It was painted by George Stubbs (1724-1806) in the same year as his record breaking Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath which made £22.4 million at Christie’s in 2011.

The hottest lot at Morgan O’Driscoll’s sale of Irish and British art was Jack Yeats’ Hot Weather Hot Day.  The small oil on board, which was originally given as a gift by the artist to the wife of his brother William and stayed in the family through inheritance before becoming part of Theo Waddington’s Irish art project and entering a private collection in Dublin, sold for 27,500 at hammer.  It measures just 7″ x 11″.

The Olive Pickers by Patrick Swift sold for 15,500 and William Conor’s Local Banter on a Sunny Morningsold for 11,000.  The auction brought in 273,000 at hammer and 73% of lots on offer sold.

(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for November 27, 2013).

Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) – Hot Weather, Hot Day sold for 27,500.

Patrick Swift (1927-1983) – The Olive Pickers sold for 15,500.

William Conor (1881-1968) – Local Banter on a Sunny Morning sold for 11,000.

A pair of landscapes by Irish artist Solomon Delane, celebrated by his contemporaries for landscapes in the manner of Claude,  come up at Sotheby’s Old Master Paintings sale in London on December 5.  View of Lake Nemi, Italy and a Wooded Landscape with a Waterfall are estimated at £30,000-30,000. Born in Dublin Delane spent most of his career in Italy, but is regularly recorded in Dublin from the 1790’s.  Four landscapes painted for the 4th Duke of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1784-1787, suggest that Delane was in Dublin in the 1780’s.

Solomon Delane (1727-1812) – View of Lake Nemi, Italy.

Solomon Delane (1727-1812) – A Wooded landscape with a Waterfall. UPDATE: THIS PAIR WAS UNSOLD