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    AT HOME SALE AT JAMES ADAM IN DUBLIN

    Sunday, November 26th, 2023
    A pair of mirrored wall brackets with ho ho birds. UPDATE: THESE MADE 2,800 AT HAMMER

    A c1930 Louis Vuitton double wardrobe steamer trunk is, at €5,000-€7,000, the most expensively estimated lot at the James Adam At Home online only sale which ends from 11 am on November 27. On offer is a selection of 467 lots of silver, antique furniture, mirrors, rugs, desks, lighting, porcelain and art including a selection of botanical artwork by Wendy Walsh (1915-2014). Among a selection of provincial pieces by various makers is a c1830 three piece silver tea service with the mark of Kean Mahony, Cork is estimated at €1,500-€2,000. A Victorian brass club fender has an estimate of €1,200-€1,800, as has a pair of French Vernis Martin display cabinets and a Victorian writing desk by Maple and Co. is estimated at €2,000-€3,000.  The estimate on a pair of giltwood and gesso wall brackets with Ho Ho birds is €500-€700 and there is an estimate of just €100-€200 on a 19th century inlaid walnut and marquetry tilt top chess table.  The catalogue is online.

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    A FELIM EGAN AT MORGAN O’DRISCOLL DRAWS SPIRITED BIDDING

    Friday, November 24th, 2023
    FELIM EGAN – Wood Note A (1997). UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,600 AT HAMMER

    THIS acrylic and mixed media on wood by the late Irish artist Felim Egan comes up as lot 37 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish art online auction which runs until November 27. It is estimated at €800-€1,200 and is already the subject of some spirited bidding. A wide variety of art and artists characterise this sale. There is sculpture by John Behan, drawings by Yeats and Sean Keating, a screenprint by Andy Warhol, and a variety of high popular artists like Arthur Maderson, Graham Knuttel, Cecil Maguire, Mark O’Neill and Markey Robinson. The catalogue is online.

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    DILLON SELLS FOR €85,000 AT DE VERES

    Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
    Gerard Dillon – THE FISHERMAN’S COTTAGE.

    The Fisherman’s Cottage by Gerard Dillon made a hammer price of €85,000 at de Veres timed sale of Outstanding Irish Art which ended this evening. Blackbird with Girl in a landscape with Cottage by Norah McGuinness made €75,000, On Killary Bay by Paul Henry made €70,000, Joe the Swineherd by Walter Osborne made €70,000, Eden by Louis le Brocquy made €42,000, Rugby Sculpture 2007 by Barry Flanagan made €40,000, and The Hay Stacker by Paul Henry made €40,000.

    Norah McGuinness – BLACKBIRD AND GIRL IN A LANDSCAPE WITH COTTAGE

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    IRISH ART MAKES WAVES AT SOTHEBY’S IN LONDON TODAY

    Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
    JACK B YEATS – THE DONKEY SHOW

    Two artworks by Sir John Lavery and one by Jack B Yeats each made £381,000 (€437,520) at Sotheby’s Modern British and Irish art sale in London today. The Donkey Show by Yeats and A Moorish Harem and Ariadne, both by Lavery, all sold above their low estimate of £300,000. The Trotter by Yeats made £88,900 over an estimate of £80,000-£120,000 but Woodhenge by F. E. McWilliam failed to find a buyer. The Modern British and Irish day auction at Sotheby’s takes place tomorrow.

    Sir John Lavery – A Moorish Harem

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    VARIETY OF CHOICE IN CALENDAR THAT IS FULL OF INTEREST

    Saturday, November 18th, 2023
    Edwin Mercer will display this Victorian lady’s vanity box at the Limerick fair this weekend.

    In the run up to Christmas the antique and art season is beginning to really hot up. Limerick racecourse is the venue for the National Antiques, Art and Vintage fair today and tomorrow. Outstanding Irish art will come under the hammer at de Veres in Dublin next Tuesday and Sotheby’s expects around €2 million worth of Irish art to change hands at evening and day sales in London on Tuesday and Wednesday.
    The calendar for the next few weeks is brimful of interest and offers a huge array of choice to eager collectors across all price levels and genres. Limerick Racecourse has proven to be an ideal venue for Hibernian Antique Fairs.  There is easy access and lots of space for antique shops, art galleries and vintage dealers.  An across the board selection this weekend includes a Victorian vanity box complete with travel accessories, bottles and even hat pins. Along with a covetable selection of antique furniture including a c1790 Irish double sided library table with hairy paw feet and Irish art there are selections of clocks and watches, militaria, jewellery, porcelain and silver.

    Rugby Sculpture (2007) by Barry Flanagan at de Veres. UPDATE: THIS MADE 40,000

    Art by Paul Henry, Walter Osborne, Gerard Dillon, Tony O’Malley, Norah McGuinness, William Scott, John Shinnors and Barry Flanagan will feature strongly at de Veres on Tuesday evening.  Bidding on this timed online sale which draws to a close from 6 pm on November 21 is already open.  It is on view at Kildare St. in Dublin for the next four days.

    Bathers, Naylor’s Cove, Bray by Harry Kernoff at Sotheby’s in London. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    The evening and day sales at Sotheby’s in London on November 21 and 22 are part of British and Irish art week, a series of events celebrating the art of Ireland and Britain from the 19th to the 21st centuries.  A total of 54 lots of Irish art will feature with the evening sale headed by two works from Sir John Lavery and two by Jack B Yeats.  The Lavery’s have emerged from the collection of the artists family.  Another evening highlight is a significant early carving by F.E. McWilliam titled Woodhenge.  The estimate for the piece is €229,220-€343,830. Meantime Bonhams first sale on the island of Ireland is now open for bidding online.  The Irish Sale: Vision and Voice will offer art by Paul Henry, Donald Teskey, Sir William Orpen, Maeve McCarthy, Margaret Clarke, Frank McKelvey, Wiliam Leech and Jack B Yeats along with an annotated typescript of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce and  handwritten lyrics of Your Song Saved My Life by Bono.  The auction will be on view at the City Assembly House in Dublin from November 24-28, when the sale will be held.

    Woodhenge by F.E. McWilliam at Sotheby’s. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

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    CONTENTS FROM SALVAGE YARD IN BELGIUM ON SALE IN IRELAND

    Saturday, November 18th, 2023
    An oak carved pulpit UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,100 AT HAMMER

    A 19th century neo Gothic pulpit is among the more unusual items at Victor Mee’s three day sale next week.  On offer are contents from the Medusa antique and salvage yard in Belgium, a hub for collectors since 1984.  There are arch fanlights, carved wooden statues, African granary doors, gothic windows, fireplaces, chandeliers, door surrounds, outdoor lamps, gates and railings, gargoyles, bronze sculptures, garden furniture and all sorts of everything among the 1,500 lots. The pulpit, by Charles Buisine-Rigot, comes up as lot 355 and is estimated at €1,800-€2,800.  Among a variety of unusual items is a driftwood bar counter, Great Dane statues, an oak and brass ticket booth, a 20th century haberdashery cupboard,  iron deck cannons, a distillery pump and an early 19th century apartment post box cabinet with tendoors. The sale, in association with Derrys of Armagh, will be on view at Derrys at Annaghmore, Co. Armagh on November 19.  The catalogue is online.

    One of a pair of Great Dane statues. UPDATE: THESE MADE 1,200 AT HAMMER

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    BIDDING FOR BONHAMS IRISH SALE OPENS TODAY

    Friday, November 17th, 2023
    JAMES JOYCE – ANNOTATED TYPESCRIPTS FOR FINNEGANS WAKE. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    The Irish Sale: Vision and Voice by Bonhams opens for bidding today. Bonhams first sale on the island of Ireland will be on view at the City Assembly House in Dublin from November 24-28. Kieran O’ Boyle, Head of Bonhams Ireland and Northern Ireland commented: “Bonhams will be celebrating those whose vision and voice shaped the cultural and artistic identity of Ireland through Irish art, culture, design, and history. This sale offers an exciting and rich selection of works, not least the remarkable Irish News Collection.” Featuring over 30 works, The Irish News Collection will lead the sale. Formed over 40 years by the late Jim Fitzpatrick, former owner of The Irish News, Ireland’s largest selling morning newspaper, the collection features Irish art from the 19th century to the modern
    day. Among the highlights is a portrait by Sir William Orpen (1878-1931) of his daughter Christine, universally known as Kit. Portrait of Kit, estimated at €80,000-120,000, was painted in 1912, when she was just six years old. Other artists represented in this impressive collection include Margaret Clarke, Harry Kernoff, William Conor, Frank
    McKelvey, John Behan and Maeve McCarthy.

    The sale will showcase works from the collection of Mary Hobart including artists Michael Farrell, William Leech, and John Butler Yeats. Paul Henry is represented in this sale with a quintessential west of Ireland landscape, Killary Bay,
    Connemara (€120,000-180,000). The annotated typescripts from James Joyce’s novel, Finnegans Wake have an estimate of €40,000-60,000. Handwritten lyrics of Your song saved my Life by Bono are estimated at €10,000-15,000

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    MITCHELL’S SUNFLOWERS MAKE $27.9 MILLION AT SOTHEBY’S

    Thursday, November 16th, 2023
    Joan Mitchell (1925-1922) – Sunflowers

    Joan Mitchell’s Sunflowers sold for $27.9 million at Sotheby’s Contemporary evening auction in New York last night. The Chicago native is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement, even though she lived in France for much of her career. The striking visual dynamism of the dense composition reveals the artist’s affinity for the American action painters, amongst whom she lived and worked in the initial decade of her career; as one of the few women to garner significant critical acclaim within the predominantly male Eighth Street Club, Mitchell is remembered by art history as the leading female voice of the Abstract Expressionist movement.

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    ELEGRANT PORTRAIT RECALLS BEAUTIFUL ACTRESS WITH IRISH ROOTS

    Wednesday, November 15th, 2023
    PHILIP ALEXIUS DE LÁSZLÓ (BRITISH, 1869-1937) – Mrs Philip Astley, née Madeleine Carroll. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £63,000

    In 1938 Madeleine Carroll was the highest paid actress in the world. This elegrant full length portrait from 1935 depicts the first Alfred Hitchcock blonde in the same year that she starred in The 39 Steps.  It will be a highlight at Christie’s British & European Art sale on December 14 during Classic Week in London.  Early parts included I Was a Spy, and School for Scandal before she was cast by Hitchcock in The 39 Steps and Secret Agent (1936). Subsequently Madeleine Carroll was offered a major contract in Hollywood and starred with Gary Cooper in The General Died at Dawn, and with Ronald Colman in The Prisoner of Zenda. Carroll has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her outstanding contribution to the cinema industry. She largely abandoned her acting career after the death of her sister Marguerite in the London blitz to devote herself to helping wounded servicemen and children displaced or maimed by the war. She was awarded both the Legion d’Honneur and the American Medal of Freedom for her work with the Red Cross. Born in Staffordshire to John Carroll, an Irish Professor of Languages from County Limerick and his French wife Helene her last film was The Fan in 1949.

    Her Broadway debut was in 1948 and at the tail end of radio’s golden age Carroll starred in the NBC soap opera The Affairs of Dr. Gentry (1957–59) and was one four stars who rotated in taking the lead in each week’s episode of The NBC Radio Theater (1959). The portrait is estimated at £50,000-70,000.

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    CEZANNE STILL LIFE MAKES $6.7 MILLION

    Wednesday, November 15th, 2023
    Paul Cézanne – L’Assiette bleue

    This blue plate by Paul Cezanne made $6,709,500 at Sotheby’s Modern evening auction in New York this week. The artist was a hugely influential figure revered by other artists. This was painted in 1879-80 and was described by Sotheby’s as a potent example of the still lifes with which Cezanne reached the pinnacle of his genius. The artist and critic Roger Fry said: . “Cézanne is distinguished among artists of the highest rank by the fact…that he achieved in still life the expression of the most exalted feelings and the deepest intuitions of his nature… it is hard to exaggerate their importance in the expression of Cézanne’s genius or the necessity of studying them for its comprehension, because it is in them that he appears to have established his principles of design and theories of form”.

    Peupliers au bord de l”Epte by Monet made $30.7 million, Le moulin de Limetze by Monet made $25.6 million, Untitled by Mark Rothko made $23.8 million, Compotier et Guitare by Picasso made $23.4 million, Au dessus de la ville by Marc Chagall made $15.6 million and La Patience by Balthus made $14.6 million.

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