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    MORGAN O’DRISCOLL’S OFF THE WALL ART AUCTION

    Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026

    Henry Morgan (b.1952) – The Burren, Near Fanore (2026). UPDATE: THIS MADE 700 AT HAMMER

    The Burren, Near Fanore (2026) by Henry Morgan is lot 12 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s off the wall online art auction which runs until July 27. The oil on canvas is estimated at €600-900. The sale offers more than 400 works of affordable art by a wide variety of artists from Brian Ballard and John Kingerlee to Markey Robinson and Arthur Maderson. The most expensively estimated lot at €3,000-5,000 is Asterisk – Spin Painting, an acrylic on card by Damien Hirst with a studio stamp and a signature stamp. The catalogue for the sale is online.

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    TIMED ONLINE WAREHOUSE AUCTION AT ADAMS

    Monday, July 20th, 2026

    GEORGE III SEMI ELLIPTICAL SIDE TABLE UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,200 AT HAMMER

    This Georgian side table is lot 38 at Adam’s timed online warehouse auction which runs until July 23. The shaped top is inlaid with a radial sunburst. The compartmented frieze has with burr walnut ovals and is cross banded in satinwood. Standing on squared tapering legs with block feet the table is estimated at just €400-€600. There are 307 lots in the sale, most will be sold without reserve in an estimate range of €80-€500.

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    JOHN BEHAN’S FAMINE SHIP AT MORGAN O’DRISCOLL

    Saturday, July 18th, 2026

    John Behan – Famine Ship  UPDATE: THIS MADE 11,500 AT HAMMER

    A unique bronze Famine Ship by John Behan is among the lots at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current Irish art online auction which runs until next Monday evening (July 20).  The estimate is €10,000-€15,000.  Among the leading lots in this auction is art by Donald Teskey, Liam O’Neill, John Shinnors, Mainie Jellett, Markey Robinson and Graham Knuttel.  There are 254 lots on offer and the catalogue is online.

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    ZINEDINE ZIDANE’S WRISTWATCH AT CHRISTIE’S

    Saturday, July 18th, 2026

    Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time Zinedine Zidane – who won his World Cup Medal for France in 1998 and Player of the Tournament in the 2006 World Cup – will sell his first personal watch for charity at Christie’s in Geneva on November 9.  The Cartier Pasha was the first watch he bought for himself at the beginning of his professional career in Bordeaux nearly 35 years ago and he has worn it ever since.  It will be sold in aid of the European Leukodystrophies Association (ELA) as part of a charitable sale of watches.  ELA is a non profit organisation which funds medical research, raises public awareness and provides support to families dealing with diseases that destroy the central nervous system. 

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    MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF IRISH TALES MAKES €20,000 AT PURCELL AUCTION

    Wednesday, July 15th, 2026

    ‘Irish tales collected from the Best authors now extant’, compiled by Matthew Moore Graham in 1835 made a hammer price of €20,000

    A manuscript book of Irish tales compiled in 1835 by Matthew Moore Graham made a hammer price of €20,000 at the book sale by Purcell Auctioneers in Birr today. The estimate was €4,000-€6,000. Graham, who was an engineer, is best remembered as a translator of Irish poetry. A Cumann na mBan autograph book from 1922 made €2,500 at hammer over an estimate of €400-800. Antiquarian books, signed limited editions, vintage postcards and Irish botanical publications featured among more than 560 lots.

     

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    RECORD FIRST HALF YEAR AT CHRISTIE’S AND SOTHEBY’S

    Wednesday, July 15th, 2026

    Jackson Pollock’s Number 7A, 1948, the top lot at auction so far made $181.2 million at Christie’s New York in May.

    The resurgence in the art market continued in the first half of 2026. Christie’s reported first half revenues of $4.6 billion. Jackson Pollock’s Number 7A 1948 made $181.2 million at Masterpieces: The Private Collection of S.I. Newhouse in May and is the top lot sold at auction in the first half of 2026.

    It has also been a record half year at Sotheby’s, which reported consolidated sales of $4.4 billion, a 58% increase over the first half of 2025. Auction sales at Sotheby’s reached an all time high of $3.4 billion with bidding from 119 countries across 170 auctions.

    Oliver Barker, Sotheby’s chairman, Europe, selling Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection in London.

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    GUS, THE T REX, SELLS FOR $50.13 MILLION AT SOTHEBY’S

    Tuesday, July 14th, 2026

    T REX GUS SOLD FOR $50,130,000

    Discovered in 2021 on a remote ranch in South Dakota Gus became the most expensive T Rex ever sold at Sotheby’s in New York today. It is 67 million years old and made $50.1 million. The bones were excavated over three summers.

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for July 11, 2026)

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    MAINIE JELLETT AT MORGAN O’DRISCOLL’S CURRENT ONLINE AUCTION

    Tuesday, July 14th, 2026

    Mainie Jellett (1897-1944) – Study for Fra Angelico/Announciation UPDATE: THIS MADE 14,000 AT HAMMER

    This gouache and watercolour on card by Mainie Jellett is lot 18 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish art online auction which runs until Monday, July 20. Study for Fra Angelico/Announciation is signed and dated 1927. It was once in the collection of artist Genevieve de Cissey. The estimate is €5,000-€7,000. The work was exhibited in the acclaimed exhibition The Art of Friendship: Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone at the National Gallery of Ireland in 2025.

    The auction offers 254 lots of mostly Irish art.

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    EUROPEAN WORKS ON PAPER AT NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND

    Monday, July 13th, 2026
    Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) – Woman Seen from the Back at the National Gallery. Image courtesy National Gallery of Ireland
    In celebration of Ireland’s EU Presidency an exhibition of around 50 works on paper by artists from across Europe is at the National Gallery from July 18 – December 6.  Rembrandt to Matisse – A Celebration of European Works on Paper features drawings, prints, watercolours and photographs from the 15th century to the present day.  The exhibition showcases the strength of the holdings of our National Gallery across various European schools


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    ART BY WILLIAM CROZIER AT BONHAMS MODERN SALE

    Sunday, July 12th, 2026

    Spring by William Crozier. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £10,880 including premium.

    A collection of artworks by William Crozier will lead Bonhams Modern British and Irish art sale at Knightsbridge in London at noon on July 15.  The leading lot is a classical Crozier work entitled Spring, an oil on canvas painted  in 1998.  The estimate is £10,000-£15,000 (€12,000-€18,000).  The sale offers five from a group of six oils by Crozier commissioned by  corporate collection in the UK, along with art by Nicholas Hely Hutchinson, Augustus John, Gwen John, Sir William Orpen, Micheal MacLiammoir and Anne Magill.

    UPDATE: The most expensive of the Croziers sold was The Plant Room which made £15,360, The Entrance made £10,240, New Field made £8,320 and Meon Valley made £5,120. All prices quoted include premium. A watercolour pen and ink drawing by Michael MacLiammoir made £2,816 over a top estimate of £1,700.

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