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    FIVE MONETS AND A MAGRITTE

    Wednesday, February 16th, 2022

    NO less than five works by Claude Monet and a 1961 masterwork by René Magritte will highlight Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary evening auction in London on March 2. The sale spans Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Monet x Monet from an American collection presents five works by Claude Monet (with estimates of from £1.2 million to £15 million) painted during a formative fifteen-year period during his career, charting the artist’s pivot from an Impressionist painter to the father of Abstract Expressionism. 

    Claude Monet – Les Demoiselles de Giverny. UPDATE: THIS WAS THE ONLY ONE OF THE MONET’S TO REMAIN UNSOLD

    Magritte’s L’empire des lumières captures the visual paradox that lies at the heart of the artist’s originality. The instantly recognisable work was created in 1961 for Baroness Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet, the daughter of Magritte’s patron the Belgian Surrealist collector Pierre Crowet, and has remained in the family ever since.

    Rene Magritte – L’empire des lumières. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 59,422,000 GBP

    Here is a video from Sotheby’s about the Monet’s in the sale:

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    IMPORTANT IRISH AND INTERNATIONAL ART AT WHYTE’S

    Monday, February 14th, 2022
    Paul Henry LOBSTER FISHERMEN OFF ACHILL, c.1916-17. UPDATE: THIS MADE 200,000 AT HAMMER

    Paul Henry’s Lobster Fishermen off Achill will be a highlight at Whyte’s sale of Irish and International art in Dublin on March 7. It is estimated at 200,000-300,000. The catalogue is online now. Artists represented include Daniel O’Neill, Colin Middleton, Sir John Lavery, Roderic O’Conor, Grace Henry, Walter Osborne, Norah McGuinness, Anne Yeats, John Shinnors, Patrick Hennessy, Patrick Scott, Louis le Brocquy, Pauline Bewick, Stephen McKenna, Margaret Corcoran and many others. A selection of works from the collection of Lady Augusta Gregory is included with work by John and Jack Yeats, George Russell, and Robert Gregory.

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    PORTRAIT BUST OF JONATHAN SWIFT AT BONHAMS

    Friday, February 11th, 2022
    Iohannes Haughton (probably John Houghton, Irish, fl. 1741-1775): A mid 18th century sculpted white marble bust of Jonathan Swift. UPDATE: THIS MADE £10,500 AT HAMMER – £13,375 WITH PREMIUM

    This sculpted portrait of Jonathan Swift by John Houghton comes up as lot 185 at Bonhams Connoisseur’s library sale at Knightsbridge in London on February 15. There is an interesting provenance to the piece by repute displayed at the Swift ancestral home, Swiftsheath, Kilkenny, Ireland. It came from Robert Swift Esq. (d. 1842), great great grandson of Jonathan Swift’s uncle Godwin Swift, 1627-1695 who raised the writer when his own father died prematurely, and was presented in 1847 to Godwin Swift Esq., cousin of Robert Swift. It passed by descent to
    Godwin Swift Esq., grandfather of the present owner and author of a handwritten family record (one of a several) compiled between 1928 and 1940, whereby the bust is mentioned. It is estimated at £5,000-8,000.

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    BACON’S MEDITATION ON THE PASSAGE OF TIME AT CHRISTIE’S

    Thursday, February 10th, 2022
    Francis Bacon – Triptych 1986-7. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £38,459,206,

    ONE of Francis Bacon’s last great paintings, Triptych 1986-7, will come to auction for the first time at Christie’s 20th/21st Century on March 1. The London evening sale is a key auction within the 20/21 Shanghai to London series. This triptych, an extraordinary meditation on the passage of time and the solitude of the human condition, is estimated at £35-50 million. The suited figure in the left-hand panel is based on a press clipping of the US President Woodrow Wilson, stepping forward as he was leaving the Treaty of Versailles negotiations in 1919; the right-hand panel was inspired by a photograph of Leon Trotsky’s study taken after his assassination in 1940. In the centre sits a figure resembling Bacon’s then-partner John Edwards, his pose reminiscent of the artist’s beloved George Dyer in the haunting eulogy Triptych August 1972 (Tate, London). Widely exhibited throughout its lifetime, Triptych 1986-7 was most recently seen in the Centre Georges Pompidou’s acclaimed exhibition ‘Bacon en Toutes Lettres’(2019-20).

    The year after its creation, Triptych 1986-7 was one of 22 paintings shown at the Central House of Artists’ Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow: the first exhibition by a well-known artist from the West to take place in Soviet Russia. Many viewers did not recognise the Trotsky photograph as a source, but to those who did, the painting’s presence heralded a sea-change in the country’s political attitudes towards art: the Iron Curtain, notably, would fall the next year. It is one of a rare number of large-scale triptychs by Bacon to remain in private hands. Between 1962 and 1991, the artist produced just 28 such works measuring 78 by 58 inches, nearly half of which reside in museums worldwide. 

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    CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY INTERIORS AT MULLEN’S LAUREL PARK

    Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
    19TH CENTURY WALNUT AND MARQUETRY FOLD OVER CARD TABLE: UPDATE: THE CLOSING BIG WAS 600.

    This 19th century foldover card table is lot 26 at Mullen’s online timed classic and contemporary interiors evening sale at Laurel Park, Bray on February 13. It is estimated at 600-800. A total of 601 lots, including antique furniture, garden furniture, art, bronzes, lighting, militaria and rugs will come under the hammer.

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    IRISH ART AT THE SNITE MUSEUM, NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY

    Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
    Lily Williams (Irish, 1874–1940), Hibernia, 1916, pastel, The O’Brien Collection, Chicago

    Who Do We Say We Are? Irish Art 1922 | 2022 runs at The Snite Museum at Notre Dame, Indiana until May 15. Paintings from the O’Brien Collection in Chicago by Seán Keating, Jack B. Yeats and Paul Henry are juxtaposed with contemporary artists Patrick Graham, Hughie O’Donoghue, and Diana Copperwhite and others to explore issues of national identity rooted in the diaspora and landscape. Expanding into the realm of photography, the rural landscapes of Amelia Stein, RHA, describe epic legends and folkloric memories that reveal history and evolving culture. An “In Dialogue” presentation of the Snite Museum’s recent acquisition of a painting by Walter Osborne – At the Breakfast Table (1894) – rounds out the discussion of home and homecoming.

    The Exposition d’Art Irlandais organized in conjunction with the Irish Race Congress in Paris in 1922 used culture as a signifier of Ireland’s distinctive character worthy of the independence from the United Kingdom just negotiated in the Anglo-Irish Treaty. As part of the Irish government’s Decade of Centenaries commemorations, the Snite Museum partners with Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and the O’Brien Collection in Chicago to present an exhibition examining the use of art as a nation-building tool, asking “If we were to organise a similar exhibition today, who might be included and what themes continue to resonate?”

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    ART BY FERGUS O’RYAN AT ADAMS ONLINE SALE

    Sunday, February 6th, 2022
    Fergus O’Ryan – Clifden from Errislannen. UPDATE: THIS MADE 300 AT HAMMER

    The first 97 lots at the current online art sale at James Adam in Dublin, which runs until February 8 come from the studio of the late Fergus O’Ryan, RHA. All proceeds from these lots – in storage since his death in 1989 – will be donated to Our Lady’s Hospice at Harold’s Cross, Dublin through the generosity of the late May O’Ryan. Estimates on works based on Fergus O’Ryans travels to  Paris, the Cote d’Azur, Spain and the Balearic and Greek Islands range from €60 to €800.  All lots will be sold without reserve. The catalogue features art by Peter Collis, John Skelton, Liam Treacy, Eva O’Connell, Barbara Warren, Dermod O’Brien, Henry Healy, Harry Kernoff, Rose Connolly, Michael Cullen, Sonia Shiel,  William Crozier, Barbara Warren, Nevil Johnson, Ruth Brandt, John Luke, Patrick Collins, Pauline Bewick, Gerard Dillon and many other artists.  There are 295 affordable lots in total.

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    CONTENTS FROM MILLBORO HOUSE AT AUCTION AT WOODWARDS

    Saturday, February 5th, 2022
    Mahogany breakfront sideboard possibly made in Cork  UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,000 AT HAMMER

    House sales are always a draw and Woodwards sale of contents from Millboro House, Lee Road, Cork on February 12 will be no exception.  The auction of 348 lots will be online and viewing gets underway at the house from today.  The auction had been previously postponed due to Covid restrictions. From a Victorian gilt overmantle to two four poster beds, antique longcase clock dials and an economy three section dining table the selection of antique furniture from Millboro House is brimful of interest.

    The late consultant anaesthetist Dr. Don Coleman, who died in 2016 at the age of 94, was an avid collector.  Contents from this imposing period house include bureau bookcases, sideboards, lamps and chandeliers, tables, chairs, butlers trays, garden statuary, crystal glass, silver and all the items that emerged from the cupboards, nooks and crannies at a large family home.  There is an estimate of €2,500-€5,000 on both a Georgian inlaid cylinder bureau bookcase and the economy dining table. A Regency style mahogany breakfront sideboard, possibly made in Cork, is estimated at  €1,500-€3,000. In Georgian and Victorian times clockmakers flourished around James St. and Washington St in Cork city centre. Among the more unusual collectibles are antique longcase clock faces, three in brass and one painted.  The brass examples are by James Aickin, Cork, Mark Kirkpatrick, Dublin and “McCarthy Corke” and the painted dial is by M Shaughnessy Cork.  

    An economy three section dining table  UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,400 AT HAMMER

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    ONLINE ART SALE BY JAMES ADAM ON VIEW IN DUBLIN

    Friday, February 4th, 2022
    DESMOND TURNER RUA (B.1923) Sunset in the West. UPDATE: THIS MADE 460 AT HAMMER

    In Dublin viewing opens today for the online art auction which runs at James Adam until February 8. It features a number of lots by the late Fergus O’Ryan and a wide variety of artists. The sale will again be on view at St. Stephen’s Green on Sunday afternoon and on Monday. Pictured here is lot 131, an oil on canvas by Desmond Turner which is estimated at 300-500.

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    CHINNERY WORK TO HIGHLIGHT BONHAMS TRAVEL SALE

    Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
    George Chinnery – A Tanka boat dwelling with Tanka boatwomen and pigs, Macau, 

    The peripatetic life of the 19th century Irish painter George Chinnery (1774-1852) took him from the Tipperary of his birth to London, then to Serampore in West Bengal via Madras, Calcutta and Dacca. Fleeing his creditors, he arrived in Macau in 1825 and made the island his home until his death in 1852. He became fascinated by the artistic possibilities of Macau’s shoreline and the local tradespeople going about their everyday lives. One of his paintings on this theme, A Tanka boat dwelling with Tanka boatwomen and pigs, Macau highlights Bonhams Travel and Exploration sale in Knightsbridge on March 2. It is estimated at £15,000-20,000.

    Rhyanon Demery, Bonhams senior picture specialist, said: “A Tanka boat dwelling with Tanka boatwomen and pigs, Macau vividly depicts members of the Tanka people – a distinct and ancient ethnic group who lived along the shore of Macau. Often viewed as outcasts by the Chinese authorities Tankas lived on junks, tank being the Cantonese word for boat and ka the word for family. Today they are more usually known as Boat People and, although many have now built lives on dry land, they preserve the unique culture that so captivated George Chinnery nearly 200 years ago.”

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