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    MILES DAVIS DESIGNED TRUMPET AT EXCEPTIONAL SALE

    Wednesday, September 4th, 2019

    A trumpet designed and played by Miles Davis, one of the most significant jazz musicians of all time, comes up at the Exceptional Sale at Christie’s in New York on October 29. The ‘Martin Committee’ Trumpet in B Flat, model T3460, by the Martin Co., was commissioned circa 1980 and features a deep blue lacquer and gilt crescent moon and stars, designed according to Davis’s specifications. The ‘Moon and Stars’ trumpet is estimated at $70,000-100,000.

    In a performing and recording career of almost fifty years Miles Davis produced many critically acclaimed albums and Kind of Blue, recorded in just two sessions in 1959, remains the best-selling jazz album of all time.

    ‘Martin Committee’ Trumpet in B Flat, Model T3460

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    A SUNDAY INTERIORS SALE AT JAMES ADAM

    Wednesday, September 4th, 2019

    THE first Sunday interior sale of the new season at Dublin auctioneers James Adam takes place on September 8. It will feature antique furniture and collectibles in porcelain, silver, glass and art. The most expensively estimated lot is a Dutch landscape by Nicolaas Johannes Roosenboom (1805-1880) (2,500-3,500). These Sunday sales offer something for both new and established collectors. The catalogue, which is online, shows 454 lots.

    IRISH WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY FRAMED LIBRARY ARMCHAIR, c.1830 (400-500) UPDATE: THIS MADE 500 AT HAMMER

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    WIDE SELECTION ON OFFER AT WOODWARDS

    Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019

    The sale of 350 lots at Woodwards in Cork on September 7 offers a wide selection with everything from a Cork longcase clock and a set of 11-bar dining chairs to an old Irish cut glass ewer and some Irish silver. The furniture selection features a Georgian walnut chest on stand (1,200-2,000), a Sheraton inlaid sofa table (1,500-2,000), a Sheraton display cabinet (1,000-1,500), a set of Cork 11-bar chairs (2,000-3,000), a Sheraton style credenza (1,000-1,500), a Georgian cellarette (600-1,000),  a Cork longcase clock by Sam’l Hayles (1,000-2,000) and a pair of demi-lune side tables (600-1,000). A pair of cast iron vases on stands is estimated at 800-1,500 and a cast iron five piece patio set has an estimate of 1,200-2,000.The selection of porcelain has global reach and includes a pair of Imari vases (600-800), a large Cantonese bowl (300-500), a pair of Meissen bottle vases (400-800), a Dresden vase (300-500) and a 76 piece Royal Crown Derby dinner service (600-800).

    Sheraton inlaid sofa table

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    KERRY WATERCOLOUR BY WILLIAM TILLYER

    Sunday, September 1st, 2019

    One of William Tillyer’s Kerry watercolours comes up at Sotheby’s Made in Britain sale in London on September 10   The eminent English artist, now 81 and noted for the diversity of his output, worked at the Cill Rialaig Project in 2001 and produced “The Age of Anxiety Watercolours”.  This one shows Kerry, but not as we would recognise it and is estimated at £2,500-3,500.  The sale will feature a selection of art by the Irish artist William Scott.

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    COLLECTION WITH A ROYAL TWIST AT CHRISTIE’S

    Sunday, September 1st, 2019

    Visions of Collecting: Royal and Aristocratic, An Important Private Collection at Christie’s in London on September 19 will feature 350 lots and reflects a fascination with Royal provenance. It features furniture, paintings, ceramics, sculpture, tapestries, silver, objects and works of art, lighting and soft furnishings from British and other European Royal families and Britain’s great country houses. Leading the sale is Corso auf dem Monte Pincio, 1911 by Max Liebermann, which was owned by Paul Cassirer, the influential modern art dealer and publisher (£200,000-300,000). The collection is expected to realise in excess of £2 million.

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    PATRICK MURPHY COLLECTION AT SOTHEBY’S

    Friday, August 30th, 2019

    Modern and Contemporary British and Irish from the collection of Patrick and Antoinette Murphy will come under the hammer across a number of sales at Sotheby’s in Paris and London. He has served as chairman for the Arts Council in Ireland and Antoinette set up the Peppercannister Gallery in Dublin. More than 30 works from their extensive collection include art by Henry Moore, William Scott, Gillian Ayres, John Bellany, Alan Davie and Sir Matthew Smith.

    As a brewer for Guinness, Patrick travelled all over the world – from London and Paris, Tokyo and New York to Kuala Lumpur and Kumasi – acquiring artworks wherever possible. He was chair on the ROSC exhibitions which introduced artists like Picasso, Lichtenstein and Rothko to Irish audiences.

    Breon O’Casey – Jungle Bird (£3,000-5,000).
    Albert Irvin – Ellington 2005 (£10,000-15,000)

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    AN ATTIC SALE AT SHEPPARDS IN DURROW

    Wednesday, August 28th, 2019

    Gems in the Attic is the title of the sale at Sheppards in Durrow on September 3. The affordable sale, ideal for new collectors, consists of items from the attics, stables and storerooms of clients from around Ireland. The 753 lot catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:

    18TH-CENTURY WALNUT AND HERRING BONE INLAID HANGING CORNER CABINET (300-500)
    CHINESE QING PERIOD CINNEBAR LACQUERED VASE (200-300)

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    THE COLLECTION OF EILEEN AND I.M. PEI AT CHRISTIE’S

    Tuesday, August 27th, 2019

    Seminal works by Barnett Newman, Jean Dubuffet, and Zao Wou-Ki are included in the Collection of Eileen and I.M. Pei which will come up at Christie’s this autumn. All were friends of the celebrated international architect and his wife. Their collection, acumulated over the course of their 72 year marriage, features an exceptional selecton of paintings, drawings, works on paper and sculpture. Additional works by Franz Kline,Zhang Daqian, Qi Baishi, Willem de Kooning, Henry Moore, Jacques Lipchitz, Xu Shiqi and Isamu Noguchi highlight the diversity of the couple’s aesthetic interests and influences. The full collection of 59 works is expected to exceed $25 million. It will be offered through sales at Christie’s in New York, Hong Kong and Paris.

    Eileen and I.M. Pei, Hong Kong, 1988 | Courtesy Eileen and I.M. Pei Family Archive

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    WILLIAM SCOTT AT SOTHEBY’S

    Wednesday, August 21st, 2019

    Near Abstraction 7 is one of a number of works by William Scott at Sotheby’s Made in Britain auction on September 10. The pencil and chalk on paper, signed and dated ’75, is estimated at £6,000-8,000.

    Sotheby’s has a number of valuation days in Ireland and Northern Ireland coming up as follows:

    5th September: Impressionist & Modern Art

    6th September: Jewellery & Watches

    24th September: European Sculpture & Works of Art

    25th September: 19th Century European Paintings

    9th October: Furniture & Decorative Arts

    WILLIAM SCOTT, R.A.
    1913-1989
    NEAR ABSTRACTION 7

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    HOW TO WOO NEW COLLECTORS

    Monday, August 19th, 2019

    What to do about an antique market that is seen to be either the preserve of billionaires in international sales or in the doldrums at local level?  For innovation head to New York.

    A theme evident at the Winter Show in January has re-emerged just in time for Christie’s Interiors auction in the Big Apple on August 21 and 22. At the Winter Show an easy to read system of coloured price tagging with legends like under $3,000, $5,000, $10,000 and so on was set up in an attempt to woo new young collectors. Christie’s summer interiors auction of 495 lots of furniture, decorative objects and fine art features a collaboration with Alexandra O’Neill, designer of the ready to wear line Markarian and CeCe Barfield Thompson, principal of the interior design firm CeCe Barfield Inc. Objects in the auction that provided inspiration for the designers’ capsule collections include a late 18th/19th century Dutch Delft blue and white five piece garniture, a pair of Italian marble jardiniers, a 19th century parcel gilt tray table and a pair of large button tufted couches or day beds of the Directoire and Empire periods known as recamiers. The capsule collections of dresses and homeware inspired by the objects in the auction are now being sold exclusively at Bergdorf Goodman, the luxury Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan. 

    UPDATE: Interiors totaled $2,331,375 with 89% sold by lot and 92% sold by value.The sale attracted a high volume of online bidding through Christie’s LIVE, with 59% of all lots won or directly underbid by clients participating online.  The sale saw global participation with registered bidders from 43 countries.

    A pair of large button tufted 20th century recamiers UPDATE: THESE MADE $3,000

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