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    AUCTION RECORD FOR DAVID HOCKNEY AT SOTHEBY’S, NEW YORK

    Friday, November 18th, 2016

    Richter, Warhol and Basquiat were stars of the evening sale of contemporary art at Sotheby’s in New York, which brought in $276.7 million last  night. The top lot was Gerhard Richter’s AB Still which sold to a private European buyer for $33.9 million.  Andy Warhol’s Self Portrait (Fright Wig) made $24.4 million.  Basquiat’s Brother’s Sausage made $18.6 million.

    There was a record for David Hockney at auction when Woldgate Woods, 24, 25, 26 October 2006 sold for $11.7 million. This is an oil on canvas in six parts, and it went to an anonymous buyer. The auction included Part 1 of The Ames Collection, which made $122.8 million.  There were bidders from 38 countries and Asian participation was up 11% year on year.

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for July 31, 2016)

    Andy Warhol - Self-Portrait (Fright Wig)

    Andy Warhol – Self-Portrait (Fright Wig)

    David Hockney - Woldgate Woods

    David Hockney – Woldgate Woods

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    MARILYN’S DRESS MAKES $4 MILLION AT HAMMER AT JULIEN’S

    Friday, November 18th, 2016
    That dress. The front view.

    That dress. The front view.

    The rear view.

    The rear view.

    The skin tight flesh coloured dress worn by Marilyn Monroe as she sang “Happy Birthday Mr. President” to JFK  has just sold for a hammer price of $4 million at Julien’s Auctions in Los Angeles. Lot number 83 was described as the historic dress worn by Marilyn when she sang to JFK at Madison Square Garden in 1962.  It was an early 45th birthday celebration.The custom made Jean Louis creation was so tight fitting that Marilyn had to be sewn into it at the last moment.

    Under a bright spotlight Marilyn Monroe walked on stage and peeled away her white ermine fur coat, revealing the sheer dress that sparkled with over 2,500 handstitched crystals. Her intimate tone and projection of the words Mr. President stunned the audience.  She died three months later, the President was assassinated the following year.  Prior to the sale the dress was displayed in Ireland at the Newbridge Silverware Museum of Style Icons.

    It was bought by Ripleys Believe it or Not! which owns a chain of museums.

    (See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for September 7 and June 2, 2016)

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    A MONET GRAINSTACK SELLS FOR $81.4 MILLION AT CHRISTIE’S

    Thursday, November 17th, 2016
    Claude Monet - Meule (Grainstack) Courtesy Christie's Images Ltd., 2016

    Claude Monet – Meule (Grainstack) Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2016

    A classical Monet stole the show at Christie’s Impressionist & Modern Art evening sale in New York last night. One of Monet’s famous themes and part of the Haystacks series, Meule (Haystacks) sold for $81,447,500 in a sale of 49 works that brought in $246,344,500.  This was a record for a work by Monet. The previous record, for Water Lillies, was $80.4 million.

    Picasso’s Buste de Femme (Dora Maar) made $22,647,500 and Rigide et courbe (Rigid and curved) by Wassily Kandinsky sold for $23,319,500.

    (See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for November 1, 2016 and September 17, 2016)

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    RE-DISCOVERED PORTRAIT BY FRIDA KAHLO

    Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

    redis-kahloA rediscovered portrait by Frida Kahlo portrait comes up at Sotheby’s in New York on November 22. In the summer of 2016 Niña Con Collar  surfaced when Sotheby’s was approached by a former personal assistant of Kahlo’s who had been given the work as a keepsake by Diego Rivera the year after Kahlo’s death in 1954.  It will be offered as part of the Latin America: Modern Art sale with an estimate of $1.5 / 2 million.

    The only record of Niña Con Collar had been a black-and-white photograph taken by the artist’s friend Lola Álvarez Bravo who documented her early works. That picture was used as the work’s catalogue raisonné entry and has been the only documentation of the painting until now.

    Axel Stein, Sotheby’s head of Latin American art, commented: “I have known Niña Con Collar since 1988 when I saw the black and white photograph in the newly published catalogue raisonné. I never imagined it would surface and turn out to be such a beautiful and warm painting.” With the subject’s direct stare from under her spreading eyebrow and the rigid symmetry of a frontal pose, Niña Con Collar immediately recalls some of the artist’s most celebrated paintings.

    UPDATE:  THIS WORK SOLD FOR $1,812,500

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    MORE FROM LESLIE WADDINGTON’S COLLECTION AT CHRISTIE’S

    Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

    The sale of Part II of the Leslie Waddington takes place at Christie’s in London on November 22.  Part one of the collection of the pioneering Dublin born art dealer was a sellout in London last month, with 80% of lots offered selling above estimate and bidders from 37 countries. Here is a selection of what is coming up:

    Patrick Caulfield, R.A. (1936-2005) Clasped hands (£10,000-15,000) © Christie’s Images Limited 2016

    Patrick Caulfield, R.A. (1936-2005) Clasped hands (£10,000-15,000) © Christie’s Images Limited 2016

    (See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for July 19 and October 4, 2016)  UPDATE:  Part II of the collection made £1,219,615.

    Sir Anthony Caro, O.M., R.A. (1924-2013) Writing Piece "Blue Moon" (£20,000-30,000) © Christie’s Images Limited 2016

    Sir Anthony Caro, O.M., R.A. (1924-2013)
    Writing Piece “Blue Moon” (£20,000-30,000) © Christie’s Images Limited 2016

    LE CORBUSIER (1887-1965) PAIR OF ‘UNITE D’HABITATION’ STOOLS, DESIGNED CIRCA 1955 (£7,000-10,000) © Christie’s Images Limited 2016

    LE CORBUSIER (1887-1965)
    PAIRS OF ‘UNITE D’HABITATION’ STOOLS, DESIGNED CIRCA 1955 (£7,000-10,000) © Christie’s Images Limited 2016

    JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976) A RECEPTION TABLE, ORIGINALLY DESIGNED 1926 (£3,000-5,000) © Christie’s Images Limited 2016

    JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)
    A RECEPTION TABLE, ORIGINALLY DESIGNED 1926 (£3,000-5,000) © Christie’s Images Limited 2016

    Sir Michael Craig-Martin, R.A. (b. 1941) Untitled (£25,000-35,000) © Christie’s Images Limited 2016

    Sir Michael Craig-Martin, R.A. (b. 1941)
    Untitled (£25,000-35,000) © Christie’s Images Limited 2016

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    MUNCH STARS AT SOTHEBY’S IN NEW YORK

    Tuesday, November 15th, 2016
    Edvard Munch - Girls on the Bridge.

    Edvard Munch – Girls on the Bridge.

    Led by Munch’s Girls on the Bridge which sold for $54.5 million the Sotheby’s sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York last night brought in $157.7 million.

    Pablo Picasso’s large-scale late work Le Peintre et son modèle brought $12.9 million; Auguste Rodin’s Penseur, petit modèle sold to an Asian private collector for $1.8; Picasso’s Tête de femme sold for $8.5 million; Maurice de Vlaminck’s Fauve landscape Le Verger  made $7.6 million; László Moholy-Nagy’s EM 1 Telephonbild, a masterwork of early conceptual art, achieved $6.1 million and František Kupka’s La Forme du bleu from 1924 sold above the high estimate for $2.2 million.

    “Tonight’s solid results, coupled with those in London this June, demonstrate there is strong demand for top-quality works at every price level,” said Simon Shaw, Co-Head of Sotheby’s Worldwide Impressionist & Modern Art Department. “We were pleased to offer for the third time Edvard Munch’s Girls on the Bridge, which achieved $54.5 million – a price that is second only to his iconic The Scream, sold at Sotheby’s for $120 million. Munch has only recently been recognized for his tremendous impact on both 20th and 21st century art, and our team has worked to build his appreciation in the market as well.”

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    FONSIE MEALY’S TWO DAY SALE IN CASTLECOMER

    Monday, November 14th, 2016

    Viewing is now underway at Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny for Fonsie Mealy’s two day sale on November 15 and 16. The catalogue lists 982 lots and includes collections from Renville House, Oranmore, Co. Galway, the Coghill family, Drumcondra House, Dublin, Dromoland Castle, Co. Clare, two private collections of Old Master paintings, horse drawn carriages and vintage cars.  There are stained glass windows from the Clarke studios, an engraving of the Old Countess of Desmond, a 1914 Talbot Invincible car, an Irish provincial silver cream jug, fine portrait miniatures and two Roman oil scenes

    (See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for November 6 and October 28, 2016)

    Attributed to Ozias Humphrey (1742-1810) -Hester Countess of Charleville (2,000-3,000)

    Attributed to Ozias Humphrey (1742-1810) -Hester Countess of Charleville (2,000-3,000)  UPDATE: THIS MADE 6,200 AT HAMMER

    A George III writing table (Cork) c1800 (800-1,200)

    A George III writing table (Cork) c1800 (800-1,200)  UPDATE: THIS MADE 800 AT HAMMER

    The Clarke Studios gothic design landscape panel of The Four Provinces of Ireland (1,000-1,500)

    The Clarke Studios gothic design landscape panel of The Four Provinces of Ireland (1,000-1,500)  UPDATE: THIS MADE 6,700 AT HAMMER

    A three quarter length portrait of Sir Marmaduke Coghill (1673-1739) sitting in his robes (3,000-4,000)

    A three quarter length portrait of Sir Marmaduke Coghill (1673-1739) sitting in his robes (3,000-4,000)  UPDATE: THIS MADE 5,700 AT HAMMER

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    A WILLIAM MOORE SIDE TABLE AT HEGARTY’S OF BANDON

    Saturday, November 12th, 2016

    A demi lune side table by the renowned Dublin maker William Moore is a highlight at Hegarty’s sale in Bandon, Co. Cork  on the evening of November 15. Estimated at 15,000-20,000 the satinwood and marquetry table is decorated with oval floral panels and a floral medallion.  From the collection of the late Maggie Glixted in Kinsale it is inlaid in satinwood, sycamore and tulip wood.  Other highlights in a sale which includes highlights from the collection of the late Dr. Marie Baker of Bantry at Hegarty’s are a c1765 Worcester basket mould dish (1,200-1,300), a Killarney wood jewellery box (2,500-3,000), an 18th century hunt table (3,000-4,000), a pair of landscapes by Edmund Johann Niemann (1813-1876) (4,000-8,000), a pair of unusual rosewood bookshelves (3,000-4,000), a pair of 19th century cast bronze figures of women bathing (2,200-2,800) and an 18th century dish top silver table (2,000-2,500).

    A demi-lune side table by William Moore

    A demi-lune side table by William Moore  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 18,600

    A Killarney wood jewellery box

    A Killarney wood jewellery box  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 2,200

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    A RECORD BREAKING NIGHT FOR BRITISH ART

    Friday, November 11th, 2016
    Frank Auerbach’s Head of Gerda Boehm sold for £3.8m

    Frank Auerbach’s Head of Gerda Boehm sold for £3.8m

    With participants from 46 countries there were records for 11 British artists at Part 1 of the sale of the David Bowie Collection at Sotheby’s.  The first session, a white glove sale in which every lot found a buyer in a record breaking night for British art,  doubled the high estimate and totalled  £24.3 million.

    There were artists records for Frank Auerbach, Peter Lanyon, Bernard Leach, Winifred Nicholson, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Henry Lamb, Harold Gilman, Ivon Hitchens, Kenneth Armitage, Bryan Wynter, Patrick Caulfield and Meret Oppenheim.  Over the course of the 10-day pre-sale exhibition in London, more than 37,000 people came to Sotheby’s to view the collection, making for the best attended pre-sale exhibition London has ever witnessed.  The top lot of the evening was Air Power 1984 by Jean Michel Basquiat which made £7.1 million.

    Bowie famously said of the Frank Auerbach painting illustrated left: “My God, yeah!  I want to sound like that looks”. 

    Sleep Sound by Jack B. Yeats sold for £233,000 over a top estimate of £180,000 and Image of James Joyce by Louis le Brocquy sold for £68,750 over a top estimate of £15,000.

    Part I: Modern and Contemporary Art, Evening Auction: £24.3m

    Part II: Modern and Contemporary Art, Day Sale: £7.2m

    Part III: Design: Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis Group: £1.4m

     

    “David Bowie’s personal art collection captured the imagination of the tens of thousands who visited our exhibitions and the thousands who took part in the sales. Sotheby’s is truly honoured to have had the opportunity to share this collection with the world and, in doing so, offer a fresh insight into the creative mind of one of the greatest cultural figures of our time.”– Oliver Barker, Chairman, Sotheby’s Europe

    Image of James Joyce by Louis le Brocquy sold for £68,750.

    Image of James Joyce by Louis le Brocquy sold for £68,750.

    Sleep Sound by Jack B. Yeats sold for £233,000.

    Sleep Sound by Jack B. Yeats sold for £233,000.

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    AN IRISH SILVER PORRINGER FROM THE TIME OF OLIVER CROMWELL

    Wednesday, November 9th, 2016
    The Porringer dates to the time of Oliver Cromwell.

    The Porringer dates to the time of Oliver Cromwell.  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR A HAMMER PRICE OF £25,000

    A porringer made in Dublin during the time of Oliver Cromwell is to be auctioned by Sworders Auctioneers at Stansted in England on November 30. Dating to between 1659 and 1663 it is estimated at £4,000-6,000 and is reckoned to be one of the oldest pieces of secular Irish silver known.  Engraved with the initials I.S. it is marked with a Dublin Harpl

    The porringer is from the collection of Col. S.L. Bibby.  According to his granddaughter much of his collection was stolen.   Seven pieces from the collection of Col. Bibby were included in an exhibition entitled Seven Centuries of English Domestic Silver at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1958.

    Among the tiny corpus of pre-1660 domestic wares published in Tony Sweeney’s catalogue raisonné of Irish Stuart Silver (1995) is an austere porringer from the end of the Commonwealth period. It was shown by How of Edinburgh at the Antique Dealers Fair and Exhibition at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel in 1967 priced at £3,000. An advertisement in the Connoisseur magazine in the same year stated: ‘There would appear to be only one earlier piece of Irish secular plate at present recorded’. At the time, only a table salt made in Dublin c.1640 by the English migrant goldsmith George Gallant was thought to pre-date it.

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