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    ROYAL FAMILY SALE AT SOTHEBY’S, AMSTERDAM

    Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
    Furniture, porcelain, glass, silver, paintings and drawings which encompass the long and varied history of the Dutch Royal family are about to come under the hammer in Amsterdam.  Sotheby’s will conduct the four day sale of around 1,600 lots from the estate of the late Queen Juliana of The Netherlands at the RAI Theatre, Europaplein 14, Amsterdam from March 14-17.
    The sale is taking place at the instructions of the Executors on behalf of the  Queen’s daughters, Her Majesty the Queen and Their Royal Highnesses Princess Irene, Princess Margriet and Princess Christina, who have stipulated that the proceeds go to four charities. Many of the lots are from the Palace Soestdijk where Queen Juliana lived throughout her married life, while other items come from the attics of other Royal Palaces, with many drawings and prints previously held in the Royal Archive.
    Only a small number of the pieces were acquired by Queen Juliana and her spouse Prince Bernhard, and by far the greater share was accumulated over the last 150 years from Kings Willem I, II and III, Queen Emma and Queen Wilhelmina. Many of the works still bear inventory marks and  labels to show their origins in the seven Royal Palaces and Royal Residences throughout the Netherlands.

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    ANTIQUE AUCTION IN SKIBBEREEN

    Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

    Cows in a Field by Thomas Sydney Cooper from Morgan O'Driscoll's sale in Skibbereen on March 13. (click on image to enlarge)

    A Georgian chest of drawers from the Morgan O'Driscoll sale in Skibbereen. (click on image to enlarge)

    Morgan O’Driscoll will have an auction of general antiques in Skibbereen in west Cork on Sunday, March 13 at 4 p.m.

    The sale will include contents from The Castle, Castletownshend.

    It will feature antique furniture, art, silver and a variety of items.

    The painting on the left by Thomas Sydney Cooper is estimated at 6,000-8,000.  The chest of drawers is estimated at 500-700.

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    GREAT RESULTS FROM SOTHEBY’S, OUTLOOK GOOD

    Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
    Sotheby’s delivered net income of $161.0 million in 2010, which apart from peak of the boom 2007 is the best yearly result ever.  “It is a remarkable accomplishment,” said Bill Ruprecht, President and Chief Executive Officer.  “The recovery of the global art market which was aided in part by the increased buying activity of clients from new markets certainly contributed to these results, as did the difficult decisions we had to make beginning in the autumn of 2008 – the headcount reduction, tightening of our cost structure and steadfast focus on auction commission margins – which have paid off considerably.
    The positive moment is continuing into 2011. “Overall, aggregate auction sales through the first two months of 2011 solidly improved from the first two months of 2010. We hope that 2011 will be another strong year for Sotheby’s and for the art market,”  Bill Ruprecht said.

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    GEORGE CAMPBELL AT WHYTE’S IRISH ART SALE

    Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
    Woman and Bag is the title of this work by George Campbell.  It comes under the hammer at Whyte’s Irish art sale in Dublin on March 14 at 6 p.m. The sale includes a Waterford collection put together from the 1950’s to the 1970’s.  These will comprise the first 40 lots of this 290 lots sale.
    The range of Irish art on offer is broad and estimates are realistic  The catalogue is now on-line and on-line bidding is also available.
    See antiquesandartireland.com posts for February 23 and January 27.
    UPDATE:  IT SOLD FOR 10,500

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    MASTERPIECE OF VENETIAN ART TO BE SOLD BY SOTHEBY’S

    Saturday, February 26th, 2011

    A masterpiece by Guardi at Sotheby's. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE A RECORD £26,697,250.

    A masterpiece of Venetian art is to be sold at Sotheby’s in London on July 6.  Francesco Guardi’s  Venice, Looking North, from the Fondamenta del Carbon is estimated to make in the region of £20 million.

    Monumental in scale (it measures 45¼ by 78½ inches) it is one of four works Guardi painted of this size.  All were executed at around the same time in the late 1760’s.  They are generally considered to be his greatest work, the  fullest expression of his mature style.

    One of the four was destroyed by fire in the mid-20th century. The last in the group was sold by Sotheby’s in 1989 for almost £10 million – then the second highest price ever achieved at auction for an Old Master painting and still the record for the artist.

    Throughout its existence, the painting has almost always hung in private. With the exception of a short period recently, when it was on loan to the Iveagh Bequest at Kenwood House in London, its last public showing was in the great 1955 exhibition at the Royal Academy, European Masters from the 18th century.

    UPDATE: IT MADE  A RECORD £26,697,250.

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    MUGHAL EMPEROR PORTRAIT AT BONHAMS

    Saturday, February 26th, 2011

    Jahangir. (click to enlarge)

    The largest known Mughal painting is to be offered  at Bonhams on April 5 for an estimated price of upwards of £1m. The portrait  of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir who ruled India 1605-1627 is in the style of a European portrait of the early 17th century.

    Jahangir was the father of Shah Jehan, under whose rule Mughal art and architecture reached their zenith. He ordered the construction of the Taj Mahal, Jahangir mausoleum and Shalimar Gardens in Lahore.
    The portrat of Jahangir  is attributed to the Mughal artist Abul Hasan, Nadir al-Zaman or “Wonder of the Age”.  It was shown at England’s National Portrait Gallery in an exhibition on the Indian Portrait in 2010.
    The Emperor is shown seated on a gold decorated throne holding a globe, wearing elaborate robes and jewellery. The surrounding Persian inscription states it was painted at Mandu in the
    AH1026/AD1617.
    UPDATE:  It sold for £1,420,000 and was bought by a Middle Eastern museum.

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    MICHAEL DOWNES AT THE KENNY GALLERY, GALWAY

    Saturday, February 26th, 2011

    Bog Pool by Michael Downes. (click on image to enlarge)

    Bog Pool is the title of this acrylic work by the Cork artist Michael Downes.  The  artist is inspired by the effects of light.  The way in which light moves on the Irish landscape  is a particular feature of his work.

    A director of the Crawford Gallery in Cork his solo show at the Kenny Gallery in Galway until March 10 has proved to be popular.

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    DEATH OF ARTIST T.P. FLANAGAN

    Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

    This 2009 watercolour by T.P. Flanagan is entitled "A Fermanagh Field". (click on image to enlarge)

    The death has taken place of the artist T. P. Flanagan. Born in Enniskillen in 1929 he was one of the most important and influential landscape painters of his generation. He once commented that, as a young man, he had hesitated to paint the Irish landscape because so many artists such as Paul Henry, J. H. Craig and Frank McKelvey had put such an indelible stamp upon it that there was nothing more to be said. Yet he put his own stamp on the landscapes of counties Fermanagh and Sligo.

    Flanagan worked thematically, a device that enabled him to present his subjects from more than one point of view.  This gives an image not just of his subjects but of his relationship to them and his feelings. In 1995 the Ulster Museum held a retrospective exhibition of Flanagan’s career.  That show  travelled to the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin and Fermanagh County Museum in Enniskillen.

    He studied painting and etching at the then Belfast College of Art from 1949 to 1953 alongside fellow students like Basil Blackshaw and Kenneth Jamison.  He worked both as a teacher and a painter for many years. His work has been exhibited widely in one-man and group exhibitions in Ireland and abroad.  He was an academician of the Royal Hibernian Academy and a Past President of the Royal Ulster Academy.  T.P. Flanagan is represented by the Taylor Galleries in Dublin.

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    PATRICK HENNESSY PORTRAITS AT WHYTE’S

    Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

    Self portrait by Patrick Hennessy at Whyte's. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,200

    A brace of portraits by Patrick Hennessy RHA (1915-1980) grace Whyte’s Irish and British art sale at the RDS in Dublin on March 14.  One is a self portrait from 1936 exhibited at a Birmingham exhibition sponsored by Winsor and Newton Ltd.  It is inscribed with an exhibition label with the artist’s address [9 Bridge Street, Arbroath, Angus] and price [£7-7-0] on reverse. It is now estimated at €2,500-€3,500.

    The second is a 1939 portrait of Liv Hempel, daughter of the German Ambassador to Ireland. It was made at De Vesci Terrace in Dun Laoghaire, the ministerial residence of Eduard Hempel (1887–1972) who was Adolf Hitler’s representative in Dublin between 1937 and 1945.  During his eight year tenure Hempel sent thousands of reports to Berlin by telegraph and shortwave radio.  He had to surrender the transmitter in December 1943 at the insistence of the Department of External Affairs, and under pressure from the United States and United Kingdom.  Hempel was granted asylum in Ireland at the end of the war. He returned to Germany in 1949.  This portrait is estimated at €2,000-€3,000.

    Liv Hempel by Patrick Hennessy at Whyte's. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: THIS MADE 4,800

    The artist Patrick Hennessy was born in Co. Cork. He won a scholarship to Dundee College of Art and a further scholarship allowed him study in Paris and Rome.   In 1939, he exhibited a self-portrait and a still-life at the Royal Scottish Academy and returned to Ireland as a professional painter, dividing his time between Cork and Dublin. In 1956, Hennessy had his first solo exhibition in London, displaying nearly 40 paintings, including several portraits. In 1957, the Ritchie Hendriks Gallery staged an exhibition of his flower paintings. More shows followed in Dublin, Chicago and Cork. Meantime, Hennessy continued to make trips abroad. He made regular visits to Paris, Normandy, the Dordogne, as well as Belgium, Holland and Spain. He also toured Italy and Greece.
    Farewell to Ireland by Patrick Hennessy which shows President John F. Kennedy boarding Air Force One at Shannon Airport on June 29th, 1963 after a visit to his ancestral homeland is currently on sale at the M.S. Rau Gallery in New Orleans priced at $98,950.
    His work is in a number of public and private collections, including: University College, Dublin; Hugh Lane Art Gallery; Irish Museum of Modern Art; National Gallery of Ireland; Office of Public Works; Crawford Art Gallery; Limerick City Art Gallery and Limerick University National Self-Portrait Collection.
    (See antiquesandartireland.com post for January 27)
    UPDATE:  THE PAINTINGS SOLD FOR 2,200 AND 4,800 RESPECTIVELY.

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    STELLAR LINE UP AT SOTHEBY’S IRISH SALE

    Monday, February 21st, 2011

    Beckett by le Brocquy at Sotheby's. (Click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: It made £75,650

    THERE is a stellar line up at Sotheby’s Irish Sale in London on March 29. It features rare works never seen on the market before by artists like Sir John Lavery, Roderic O’Conor and Mary Swanzy.  There are 13 works by Louis le Brocquy and the sale includes Basil Blackshaw,  John Shinnors, William Scott, Colin Middleton and Sean Scully.

    John Lavery’s portrait of Lady Gwendoline Churchill, A Lady in Brown, is at auction for the first time.  It is believed the painting was probably executed in the summer of 1915. O’Conor’s Landscape, Cassis, has re-surfaced from a private American collection and features one of the smaller peaks of the limestone cliffs of Le Cap Canail.
    Sunlit Landscape by Mary Swanzy is a dazzling modernist piece.   It is  part  of  a  series  of  lyrical  Provencal  cubist  landscapes produced following a stay at Grasse in the South of France in the winter of 1926-1927 and is estimated at £60,000-80,000.
    Daniel  O’Neill  is  represented  in  the  sale  with  one  of  the  most expressive  and  affecting  works  by  the  artist  to  ever  appear  at auction.  On  Reading  Dear  Theo  is  a  portrait  of  Vincent  van
    Gogh.  The  composition  and  treatment  clearly  reference  van  Gogh’s landscapes.  It is estimated  at  £30,000-50,000.  Headlining the le Brocquy works is an image of Samuel Beckett (Opus  473),  an
    oil  on  canvas  estimated  at  £60,000-80,000.
    There is a group of four still lives by William Scott and the art auction offers a strong selection of contemporary works.
    See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for February 16 and February 2.

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