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    AN EXHIBITION CELEBRATING GOLD IN ART AT ORDOVAS

    Thursday, October 3rd, 2024

    Donald Judd (1928–1994) – Untitled – stamped ‘JUDD BERNSTEIN BROS.INC.JO 88-28’ (on the reverse) anodized aluminium Executed in 1988 © Judd Foundation/ARS, NY and DACS, London 2024

    Golds – an exhibition exploring one of the most symbolic colours in the history of art, and how it has been used and represented in the work of significant artists from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries – opens tomorrow at Ordovas on Savile Row in London. The exhibition, featuring 11 works of art, represents a diverse group of artists including Carl Andre, Lucio Fontana, Donald Judd, Giuseppe Penone, Edmund de Waal and Andy Warhol. These modern works are shown alongside a masterpiece of medieval art: an exceptional champlevé enamel chasse from Limoges, France, created circa 1200 and believed to have housed and protected one of the most precious relics: a piece of the True Cross. This is the latest in a series of exhibitions held over recent years exploring the use of a single colour; previous editions were dedicated to white in 2017 and blue in 2020. It runs until December 13.

    Limoges, France, circa 1200 – A champlevé enamel chasse showing the Crucifixion Photo courtesy Sam Fogg, London.

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    ADAMS ANNUAL COUNTRY HOUSE COLLECTIONS SALE AT TOWNLEY HALL

    Thursday, October 3rd, 2024

    VICTORIAN WALNUT TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY INLAID CREDENZA. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    This fine Victorian credenza comes up on day one of the James Adam annual Country House Collections sale at Townley Hall on October 14. Bidding is now open for day one of the sale, a timed online auction of 245 lots. The credenza is lot number 237 and is estimated at €3,000-€5,000. There will be a live auction with 460 lots at St. Stephen’s Green on the following day. Viewing gets underway at Townley Hall near Drogheda on October 12. The carefully curated sale is drawn from country houses right around Ireland and the vast majority of lots have been sourced from Irish private collections. This annual auction has become one of the highlights of the antique and fine arts calendar in Ireland.

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    FREUD PORTRAIT IN THE HISTORICAL TRADITION AT CHRISTIE’S

    Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024

    Lucian Freud –  Ria, Naked Portrait. Painted in 2006-2007. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £11,810,000

    A seminal work by Lucian Freud – Ria, Naked Portrait – with an estimate of £10 million – £15 million is a highlight at Christie’s 20th/21st century evening sale in London on October 9 during Frieze Week. The painting is deeply rooted in the art historical tradition of the reclining female nude, drawing from a lineage that includes Giorgione, Titian, and Velázquez, and finds a modern culmination in Édouard Manet’s Olympia (1863), a work that Lucian Freud greatly admired.

    The sitter, Ria Kirby, was an art handler whom Freud initially met at the Victoria & Albert Museum during his joint exhibition with Frank Auerbach in 2006. Ria went on to become one of his most significant sitters during the final decade of his life, with sessions totalling an intense 2,400 hours over the course of 16 months. Ria, Naked Portrait was completed in 2007 and it is the only portrait of Ria the artist realised. The painting is offered at auction for the first time.

    UPDATE: The sale total was £81,980,050

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    DUBLIN GALLERY WEEKEND RETURNS FOR SECOND OUTING

    Tuesday, October 1st, 2024

    YANNY PETTERS – Fieldwork with Mainie and Albrecht

    Dublin Gallery Weekend returns for its second year with an ambitious programme of contemporary art exhibitions November 7-10. Eleven leading commercial galleries will present exhibitions by Irish and international artists. Sean Rainbird, former director of the National Gallery of Ireland, will once again gather together a panel of national and global experts in a day-long conference of talks with the theme of realising the potential of the Irish visual arts sector.

    Egyptian feminist Nil Yalter, who won a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2024 Venice Biennale is showing at Green On Red Gallery. One of Ireland’s most celebrated living sculptors, John Behan, will present new work in bronze at Solomon Gallery, while Irish contemporary artist Nevan Lahart presents new work at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery. Hillsboro Fine Art will present its first solo exhibition by the renowned Irish painter Eithne Jordan, while Kerlin Gallery presents the first exhibition in Ireland by Justin Fitzpatrick, a young Dubliner based in France and with a growing international reputation. 

    Fieldwork with Mainie and Albrecht, pictured here, is a new body of work by Yanny Petters primarily about wild Irish habitats at Olivier Cornet Gallery from October 6 to November 10.

    The Ffull programme details and booking links are available at caga.ie/dublingalleryweekend

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    SEATED FIGURE BY BREON O’CASEY AT WHYTE’S

    Monday, September 30th, 2024

    BREON O’CASEY (1928-2011) – SEATED FIGURE (1990). UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,800 AT HAMMER

    This unique brass figure by Breon O’Casey comes up as lot number 83 at Whyte’s sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin this evening. The estimate is €2,000-€3,000. A prominent member of the St. Ives School he was a versatile jewellery, weaver, painter and sculptor. O’Casey was a son of the Irish playwright Sean O’Casey.  Included in the sale are major works by Jack Butler Yeats, Paul Henry, Grace Henry, William Orpen, Seán Keating, Mildred Anne Butler, William Percy French, William Conor, Mary Swanzy, Colin Middleton, Daniel O’Neill, Nano Reid, Patrick Collins, Camille Souter, Norah McGuinness, Patrick Hennessy, Donald Teskey, Rowan Gillespie, Anthony Scott, Liam O’Neill, Rita Duffy and many more.

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    ESCAPE FROM THE CHATEAU AT VICTOR MEE AUCTION

    Sunday, September 29th, 2024

    A late 17th/early 18th century Aubusson silk and wool tapestry UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    An antique Aubusson tapestry or an Irish 18th carved giltwood mirror?  The choice is yours at Victor Mee’s  Escape from the Chateau sale with more than 1,900 lots on October 1, 2, 3 and 4 from 6.30 pm each day.  The primary vendor is an Irish antique dealer who is moving home from his chateau in the Charente region.

    With an estimate of €6,000-€12,000 the tapestry is one of the top lots from his collection which features antique, interior and decorative lots including an Irish mahogany side table (€4,000-€6,000), a Sheraton four poster bed (€3,000-€6,000), an 18th century Dublin pier mirror, a c1765 giltwood mirror with C scroll carving (€3,000-€6,000 each), Middle Eastern decorative items including coffee tables, lanterns, chargers and coffee pots (€50 to €100) and even a 19th century Dublin pawnbrokers sign from Queen St. (€600-€1,200).  The auction is on view in Co. Cavan and the catalogue is online.

    Irish 18th century carved giltwood pier mirror. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,900 AT HAMMER

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    DEBORAH BROWN STUDIO COLLECTION AT ADAMS IN DUBLIN

    Sunday, September 29th, 2024

    Red Figure, 1957 by Deborah Brown. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,000 AT HAMMER

    A timed auction of the Deborah Brown collection is underway at Adams until October 1.  This is a studio collection of her work with reasonable estimates along with art by friends and contemporaries including Mainie Jellett, Evie Hone, James Humbert Craig, Alice Berger Hammerschlag, William Scott and Basil Blackshaw whose art she admired.

    Largely unknown at home Deborah Brown, who died in her mid ’90’s last year, was an artist of international repute who evolved into abstraction in the 1950’s and exhibited at the New Vision Centre gallery in London, the Free Painters Group and the Arnolfini in Bristol.  A retrospective at the Ulster Museum and the Hugh Lane Gallery was held in 1982 and another at the F E McWilliam gallery in 2012-13.

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    YEATS AND HENRY AT WHYTE’S IMPORTANT IRISH ART SALE

    Saturday, September 28th, 2024

    JACK B YEATS – The Top of the Tide UPDATE: THIS MADE 210,000 AT HAMMER

    The two figures depicted by Yeats in The Top of the Tide (1955) seem to contemplate something way out there and way out of reach. The men  – one suggestive of the 18th century – are made to seem partly transparent In a vibrant landscape of blues and yellows.

    The context of the painting made by Yeats in his ’80’s is the fragility of human existence. The artist declared it ready for exhibition in February 1956 and died a year later in March 1957. In a catalogue note Dr. Roisin Kennedy quotes Beckett on Yeats:  “One does not realise how still his pictures are till one looks at others, almost petrified, a sudden suspension of the performance, of the convention of sympathy and antipathy, meeting and parting, joy and sorrow”.

    The Top of the Tide will lead Whyte’s sale of Important Irish Art at Freemason’s Hall, Molesworth St., Dublin on the evening of September 30 with an estimate of €250,000-€350,000.

    UPDATE: The sale grossed over €1.3 million

    PAUL HENRY – The Stony Fields of Kerry  UPDATE: THIS MADE 180,000 AT HAMMER

    A trio of works by Paul Henry is headed by The Stony Fields of Kerry (€150,000-€200,000) thought to have been painted after a late summer holiday in Glenbeigh in 1934. Killary Bay c1919-1920 and Keel Bay, Achill c1910-1919 by Henry are estimated respectively at €70,000-€90,000 and €60,000-€80,000.

    Among a selection of major works in this sale of 149 lots is Water Party, Kilmurry 1891-92 by Mildred Anne Butler (€15,000-€20,000) exhibited at the Watercolour Society of Ireland in 1893.  An exhibition of work by the artist – where Butler is lauded as one of Ireland’s first professional women artists – is on view at the National Gallery of Ireland until next January. 

    There is art by Grace Henry, William Orpen, Sean Keating, Percy French, William Conor, Mary Swanzy, Colin Middleton, Dan O’Neill, Nano Reid, Norah McGuinness, Patrick Hennessy, Donald Teskey, Rowan Gillespie, Rita Duffy in a sale which is on view all weekend and on Monday at Whyte’s in Dublin.

    MILDRED ANNE BUTLER – Water Party, Kilmurry. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

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    THE MOST IMPORTANT SURREALIST WORK EVER AT AUCTION

    Monday, September 23rd, 2024

    René Magritte (1898-1967) – L’empire des lumières, 1954. UPDATE: THIS MADE $105,000,000 AT HAMMER – A NEW WORLD RECORD FOR THE ARTIST.

    This spectacular  L’empire des lumières by René Magritte which depicts a paradoxical Surrealist scene in which day and night are in simultaneous occurrence from the collection of Mica Ertegun is estimated by Christie’s at in excess of $95 million. It is billed as the most important Surrealist work ever at auction. There will be a series of auctions from the collection in New York beginning on November 19-20. The series spans a vast array of art and objects acquired over more than half a century and are part of Mrs. Ertegun’s personal collections in Manhattan, Southampton and Paris. An arbiter of style she was a renowned interior designer and co-founder of MAC II. A significant portion of proceeds is intended to benefit philanthropic initiatives. During her life, Mrs. Ertegun generously supported the Graduate Scholarship Programme in the Humanities at Oxford University, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the World Monument Fund and more. Jewellery, Design and Decorative Arts sales will be held on December 10 and 13 in New York and Paris. The sale in New York on November 19-20 will feature the finest in Surrealism, rare examples of Russian and Ukrainian Modernism, Purism, de Stijl and Color Field paintings.

    Ioana Maria Banu Ertegun, known as “Mica,” was born in 1926, the only child of a prominent Romanian family. In 1948, the Communist takeover forced Mica from her native country to Switzerland; she later moved to Paris, then Canada, where she and her first husband settled and worked on their chicken farm on Lake Ontario. In 1958, Mica traveled to New York to meet with the Turkish ambassador in the hope that he could help extricate her father from Romania. There, she met her future husband, Ahmet Ertegun, co-founder of Atlantic Records. The couple married in 1961 and established their life in New York.

    René Magritte (1898-1967) – La cour d’amour, 1960. UPDATE: THIS MADE $8,800,000 AT HAMMER

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    THE CORK COLLECTION OF AN ARCHITECT AT LYNES AND LYNES

    Sunday, September 22nd, 2024

    A pair of Cork lithographs by Robert L Stopford (1813-1898)  UPDATE: THE PAIR MADE 460 AT HAMMER

    A set of rare Cork 8-bar dining chairs, a pair of lithographs by Robert Stopford of The Cork River from Fota Park and Cork Harbour from Spy Hill, an early lithograph of Cork Opera House and a collection of drawings including one of St. Multose Church in Kinsale from the estate of late architect Bill Murphy of Coolim, Castle Road, Blackrock, Cork will feature at Lynes and Lynes sale in Carrigtwohill on September 28.

    A landscape by William Sadler II leads a large collection of pictures from this house. A c1690 English walnut and marquetry longcase clock by John Bates, Atherstone, an Irish rosewood duet music stand by Williams and Gibton, an Omega De Ville gold wristwatch made for the American market, an antique brass fire grate, terracotta garden pots and a collection of Dinky toys are included. Among lots from other estates in the sale are an antique oak filing cabinet and a Churchill 22 carat gold commemorative medal along with a selection of jewellery, coins, glassware, books and collectibles.  UPDATE: THE CHURCHILL COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL MADE €6,800 AT HAMMER

    An English c1690 walnut and marquetry inlaid longcase clock UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,400 AT HAMMER

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