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    RENOWNED DEGAS SCULPTURE TO HIGHLIGHT NEW YORK ART SALE

    Saturday, October 8th, 2011

    Degas dancer estimated at $25-35 million at Christie's. UPDATE: THERE WAS HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT AT CHRISTIE'S WHEN THIS FAILED TO SELL. TWO PICASSO'S AND A MATISSE ALSO FAILED TO FIND BUYERS.

    Edgar Degas’ Petite danseuse de quatorze ans, one of the most readily recognisable sculptures in the world,  is a highlight at Christie’s Impressionist and Modern art sale in New York  on November 1. Christie’s say the work represents a defining moment in Degas’s career.  With it he broke from academic tradition to embrace a new modernist aesthetic.

    Degas first unveiled the original tinted wax and mixed media version of Petite danseuse in 1881 at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition, where it made an immediate impact. With its unflinchingly naturalistic depiction of a young dancer and its unconventional addition of clothing and hair,  the 40-inch high figure earned instant notoriety among artists and connoisseurs.

    Roy Lichtenstein, I Can See the Whole Room…and There's Nobody in It! at Christie's Contemporary and Post War sale in New York on November 8. It is estimated at $25-35 million. UPDATE: This sold for $43.2 million, a new auction record for the artist.

    Estimated at $25-35 million, the work is to be on view in London during Frieze Week from October 9-14. There will be a week of exhibitions and auctions dedicated to modern and contemporary art a newly renovated rooms at King St. It will include works by Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter, Roy Lichtenstein, Edgar Degas, Damien Hirst, Joan Miró and Réne Magritte, among others.

    UPDATE:  The Degas was the biggest casualty in a disappointing night.  Christie’s sold $140.8 million of works. This was the lowest sales total in two years for Impressionist and Modern art.  No less than 38 per cent of the 82 lots on offer failed to find buyers. The pre-sale estimate was $211.9 million – $304.4 million.

    Christie’s Post War and Contemporary evening sale in New York on November 8 features one of the earliest of Roy Lichtenstein’s Pop Art pictures.  I Can See the Whole Room…and There’s Nobody in It!, estimated at $25-35 million, is one of a number of Pop Art masterpieces in the auction.

    The Post-War and Contemporary day sale at Christie’s in New York on November 9 includes Andy Warhol’s Dollar Sign being sold by NAMA, Ireland’s bad bank set up to purge risky property loans.  (See antiquesandartireland.com post for September 19).

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    YEATS AND HENRY AT BONHAMS IN NOVEMBER

    Saturday, October 8th, 2011

    IMPORTANT paintings by paintings by Yeats and Henry will feature at Bonham’s sale of 20th century British and Irish art in London on November 16.  Paul Henry’s Running for Shelter featured at the artist’s annual exhibition in Dublin in 1938.  It is estimated at £120,000-180,000. The Jack Butler Yeats work, entitled A Giant Reading, has always been in the same private collection. It is estimated at £70,000-100,000.

    Paul Henry, Running for Shelter. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: IT MADE £175,250

    Jack Butler Yeats, A Giant Reading. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: IT MADE £88,250

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    LEONARDO DA VINCI: PAINTER AT THE COURT OF MILAN IN LONDON FROM NOVEMBER 9

    Thursday, October 6th, 2011

    LEONARDO DA VINCI: Painter at the Court of Milan’ at the National Gallery in London from November 9 is to be the most complete display of Leonardo’s rare surviving paintings ever held. It focuses on his time as court painter to the Sforza rulers of Milan in the 1480’s and ’90’s. The exhibition brings together around 60 drawings and paintings, the largest number of Leonardo’s ever to be lent to a single show.  Even though he is one of the greatest artists who ever lived, this is the first show to focus on Leonardo’s innovations as a painter.

    The exhibition, sponsored by Credit-Suisse, will run from November 9 2011 to February 5, 2012.

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    ZHANG DAQIAN’S SELF-PORTRAIT LEADS RECORD BREAKING AUCTION

    Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

    Zhang Daqian's Self Portrait in the Yellow Mountains. (Click on image to enlarge).

    Fu Baoshi - Boating Under the Willows (click on image to enlarge).

    Zhang Daqian’s Self-Portrait in the Yellow Mountains was the top lot at Sotheby’s sale of fine Chinese paintings in Hong Kong.  It made 5.9 million US dollars.

    The second most expensive lot was Fu Baoshi’s Boating under the Willows which sold for 3.9 million US dollars. The sale brought in 94.7 million US dollars and far exceeded the pre-sale estimate.

     

    In 2010  Zhang Daqian was the fourth highest selling artist in the world.

    See post on antiquesandartireland.com for April 7, 2011.

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    VARIETY OF ARTWORK AT MORGAN O’DRISCOLL CORK SALE

    Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

    FROM Shinnors to Scott, Markey to Maderson  the Morgan O’Driscoll Irish art sale in Cork on October 17 has much variety to offer collectors. There are abstracts and still lifes, landscapes, portraits, beaches, horses and cliffs.  Despite the Yeats effect – the impact of the million euro Yeats’ painting at Adams at the end of September on the market for Irish art – the estimates in this sale represent good value.

    The 285 lot auction is at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Little Island, Cork on October 17  at 6.30 p.m.  Here is a small selection from what is on offer. The entire catalogue is on-line:

    UPDATE:  THE sale brought in 212,000 at hammer.  The top lot was Potato Gatherers by Markey Robinson which made 6,400 and there were good prices for works by Mark O’Neill, Kenneth Webb, John Shinnors and Arthur Maderson.

    Sean Scully (b.1945) 'Horizon I' limited edition print 29/40 (2,000 - 2,500). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 1,900

    John Luke RUA (1906-1975) 'Villiage Scene' watercolour (3,000 - 4,000). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    Sean Keating PRHA HRA HRSA (1889-1978) 'Irish Free State Bacon' offset lithograph poster printed in colour Provenance: Commissioned by the Empire Marketing Board in 1929 as part of a campaign to market Irish produce in Britain. (600 - 900) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    Pauline Bewick RHA (b.1935) 'Yellow Man in Fig Tree' (8,000 -12,000). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    Grace Henry HRHA (1868-1953) 'Old Woman Sewing' (3,000 - 5,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,200

    Brian Ballard RUA (b.1943) 'Tulips and Green Bottle' (1,400-1,800). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 1,100.

    William Scott OBE RA (1913-1989) 'Pears' (2,000 - 2,500). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

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    FORTE COLLECTION OF LOWRY’S AT CHRISTIE’S IN NOVEMBER

    Monday, October 3rd, 2011

    THE  highest quality group of works by L.S. Lowry to come to the market will be sold at Christie’s inaugural evening sale of 20th Century British & Irish Art in London next November 16.  The Lord Forte Collection of 14 piantings is being sold by the descendants of Lord Forte (1908-2007).  The Forte family name is synonymous with the world famous hotel brand which was established by the entrepreneurial magnate Charles Forte who created a worldwide empire of restaurants and hotels from virtually nothing.

    UPDATE:

    The inaugural evening sale of 20th Century British & Irish Art including The Lord Forte Collection of Works by L.S. Lowry realised £23,625,000/ $37,233,000/ €27,664,875, selling 92% by value and 72% by lot.

     

    The top lot was Piccadilly Circus, London, 1960, by L.S. Lowry which achieved £5,641,250/ $8,890,610/ €6,605,904, setting the joint highest world record price for the artist at auction and for the category.

    UPDATE:  The sale realized £23,625,000.  The top lot was Piccadilly Circus, London 1960  by L.S. Lowry, which made £5,641,250, a joint highest world record price for the artist at auction.

    L.S. Lowry Saturday Afternoon 1941 (estimate: £1,200,000-1,800,000). Click to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE £2,057,250.

    L.S. Lowry Fun Fair at Daisy Nook 1953 (estimate: £1,500,000-2,000,000). (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS MADE £3,401,250.

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    PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS AND SCULPTURE AT WHYTE’S IRISH ART SALE

    Monday, October 3rd, 2011

    In Dublin Whyte’s will offer a selection of 279 modern, contempory and classical paintings, drawings and sculpture with realistic market reserves on Monday October 10.  There is a classical Yeats from 1949, a collection of fifteen works by Markey Robinson, ten by Joseph William Carey, five by Hughie O’Donoghue and even a collection of paintings relating to the visit of Queen Elizabeth 11 to Ireland in May 2011.

    Here is a selection from the sale:  UPDATE: THE YEATS WAS THE TOP LOT IN A SALE WHICH GROSSED OVER 700,000.

    RESCUE MEN, 1949 by Jack Butler Yeats (60,000-80,000). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE 110,000.

    THE THIRD DAY, c.1950 by Nevill Johnson (8,000-10,000). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.

    SIX MILE WATER by Basil Blackshaw (8,000-10,000). Click to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE 7,500

    LANCASTRIA II, 2000 by Hughie O'Donoghue (6,000-8,000). Click to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.

    VINCENT IT CAN BE THIS, 1984 by Brian Maguire (800-1,000). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE 850.

    Ruth by Daniel O'Neill (25,000-35,000). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE 37,000.

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    YEATS’ POEM INSPIRED SYMBOLIST MAKINTOSH PAINTING

    Sunday, October 2nd, 2011

    The Silver Apples of the Moon by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR £115,250

    THE Silver Apples of the Moon, a re-discovered watercolour by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, features at Christie’s sale of 20th Century Decorative Art & Design in London on October 25.  As with so many Symbolist works, The Silver Apples of the Moon is inspired by poetry, taking its title from W. B. Yeats’ poem  The Song of Wandering Aengus.  This is a twilight scene depicting the poem’s character: “a glimmering girl, With apple blossom in her hair  …..   The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.”

    Margaret  Macdonald Mackintosh and W. B. Yeats had a common interest in mysticism and the occult, as well as being influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites. The Silver Apples of the Moon is known to have been exhibited in 1912 at the 33rd Annual Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Societies of Watercolours and subsequently in 1913 at the 52nd Exhibition Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.

    Macdonald Mackintosh exhibited at the 1900 Vienna Secession, where she undoubtedly influenced the Secessionists Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann.  She was wife of pioneering Glasgow architect, interior decorator and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The Silver Apples of the Moon is estimated at £50,000-£70,000.

    Here is Yeats’ poem The Song of Wandering Aengus:

    I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flicking out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.
    When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire aflame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And some one called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.

Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.

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    ICONIC FASHION DRAWINGS BY RENE GRUAU AT CHRISTIE’S IN OCTOBER

    Friday, September 30th, 2011

    Rene Gruau The Red Coat, circa 1950 (£3,000-5,000). (Click on images to enlarge). UPDATE: SOLD FOR £15,000.

    THE autumn sale of of 20th Century Decorative Art & Design at Christie’s in London on October 25 includes these iconic original fashion drawings by René Gruau (1909-2004) renowned haute couture illustrator who fashioned the style of the forties and fifties.  He was favoured by  leading fashion houses, including Christian Dior, Balenciaga, Balmain and Lanvin and was commissioned by the American editor Fleur Cowles in the 1950’s for Look and Flair magazines.

     

    UPDATE:  THE collection of René Gruau fashion illustrations easily quadrupled its low estimate. Bidding was fierce in the room, on the phone and online, mostly from European collectors and trade. 

    There is contemporary design, Art Nouveau, Modern and Postmodern works in a sale of over 130 lots expected to realise more than £2 million.

    Rene Gruau On the beach, circa 1950 (£3,000-5,000) UPDATE: SOLD FOR £5,000

    Rene Gruau The Blue Bows, circa 1950 (£3,000 -5,000). UPDATE: SOLD FOR £9,375

    
				
    

				
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    YEATS MASTERPIECE MAKES A MILLION AT ADAMS
    
				Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

				
    
					
    

    

    

    A Fair Day, Mayo by Jack Yeats sold for one million at Adams.
    

    A Jack Yeats masterpiece made a hammer price of one million euro at the James Adam auction of Irish art this evening to become the most expensive Irish picture to sell at auction this year. This gives an Irish art market a much needed shot in the arm.  The Irish market has lingered in the recessionary despite a strong recovery in the international art market.
    

    A Fair Day, Mayo which dates to 1925 also became the highest priced painting ever sold at auction in Ireland.  The best of Irish art has made its top prices at the London Irish art sales.
    

    The painting, which once hung in the office of Eamon de Valera, had been in the same family for 67 years.  It was chased by four bidders. The underbidder was a London agent acting on behalf of an unnamed client. A number of telephone lines were booked in advance of the sale.  There was spirited bidding in the room before the painting eventually wold on the telephone to an anonymous bidder.  Adams believe the picture will stay in Ireland.   A Fair Day, Mayo’, was originally sold for IR£250 to Mr. J. P. Reihill Snr in 1944 by Leo Smith and has remained in the Reihill family ever since.    After it was painted, the artist lent the picture to the leader of the new Fianna Fail party, Eamon de Valera who displayed it in his offices at Suffolk Place in Dublin. The subject is a bustling country fair and probably appealed to de Valera’s vision of Ireland.
    

    “The 24 x 36” work had never been on the market before, yet had been seen in a number of very prestigious exhibitions including “Images in Yeats” at Monte Carlo in 1990 and at  “The Moderns” at IMMA earlier this year.” A second painting by  Yeats – ‘The Dawn” – also featured in the sale and made 80,000.
    

    Adams managing director James O’Halloran said: “This picture was one of the largest and most valuable works by Yeats to appear on the market for many years and this evening’s result now proves that the market for Irish art is clearly here in Dublin, with Adam’s.
    

    See antiquesandartireland.com posts for September 19 and September 23.
    

    

    

    
				
    

				
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