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    ART BY PAUL HENRY AND JACK B. YEATS AT BONHAMS

    Friday, June 3rd, 2016

    Irish works at Bonhams sale of Modern British and Irish art in London on June 15 will include two landscapes by Paul Henry and a late work by Jack B. Yeats entitled Single File.  All three works are estimated at £30,000-50,000.  Other Irish artists featured include William Scott, Dan O’Neill and F.E. MacWilliam.  The catalogue is online.  Here is a small selection:

    Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) - Single File

    Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) – Single File UPDATE: THIS MADE £80,500

    Paul Henry (1876-1958) -Lough Corrib from Glenadda.

    Paul Henry (1876-1958) -Lough Corrib from Glenadda.  UPDATE: THIS MADE £27,500

    Paul Henry (1876-1958) - The cottage by the lake.

    Paul Henry (1876-1958) – The cottage by the Lake. UPDATE: THIS MADE £79,300

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    THE COLLECTION OF RONALD AND NANCY REAGAN AT CHRISTIE’S

    Thursday, June 2nd, 2016

    ronald reaganChristie’s announced today that it has been entrusted with the sale of the private collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Reagan the 40th President and First Lady of the United States. The landmark auction is slated for September 2016 to coincide with Christie’s Americana Week sales series in New York.  Proceeds will go to  The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute.

    The sale encompasses furniture, decorative works of art, books, memorabilia, jewelry, paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints from President and Mrs. Reagan’s home in Los Angeles, California. It includes American, English, and Chinese furnishings selected for the home’s beautifully appointed Ted Graber-designed interiors, paying homage to the William Haines ‘Hollywood Regency’ style. The collection will be sold in a sequence of live and online auctions. Estimates on individual items range from $1,000 to $50,000, and the sales are expected to realize in excess of $2 million total.

    More details of the Collection will be announced in the coming weeks. The complete sale catalogue will be available late summer 2016.

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    A WORK OF GENIUS BY CONSTABLE TO CELEBRATE 250 YEARS OF CHRISTIE’S

    Thursday, June 2nd, 2016
    John Constable, R.A. (1776-1837) View on the River Stour near Dedham, full-scale sketch circa 1821-22 oil on canvas

    John Constable, R.A. (1776-1837)
    View on the River Stour near Dedham, full-scale sketch c1821-22. Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2016.

    A work of genius by John Constable, R.A. (1776-1837), the ‘sketch’ for View on the Stour near Dedham, c1821-22, will be offered alongside masterpieces by Reynolds, Leighton, Lowry, Spencer, Bacon and Freud at Christie’s in London on June 30.  The Defining British Art sale marks Christie’s 250th anniversary. The Constable is estimated in the region of £12-16 million. It is the last great six-footer sketch in private hands.

    Jussi Pylkkänen, Global President of Christie’s International: “Not since Constable’s Lock have we had the opportunity to work with a painting of this calibre by one of the titans of British painting.  To stand in front of this expansive work, is to understand why the great British modern painters and even the French Impressionists revered Constable as their spiritual mentor. Constable famously said that “Painting is but another word for feeling” and later that “I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas”.  Visitors to Christie’s in June will be able to see a rarely exhibited masterpiece by Constable which perfectly describes his passion for paint and his ability to paint dramatic landscapes on the grand scale. It is fitting that Christie’s should be given the opportunity to sell this masterpiece in our Defining British Art sale which marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of this great institution.”

    UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £14,082,500

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    SIGNED FUSELAGE CLOTH BY CHARLES LINDBERGH AT AUCTION

    Wednesday, June 1st, 2016

    A piece of the original silver-colored cloth from the fuselage of the Spirit of St. Louis signed by Charles A. Lindbergh, just days after the historic trans-Atlantic solo flight that instantly catapulted the young American pilot to lasting worldwide fame and recognition, comes up at an online sale by Lion Heart Autographs on June 15. The section of cloth, signed “Charles A. Lindbergh,” is of extraordinary rarity because no other examples signed by Lindbergh when he landed in Paris are known.  It is estimated at $15,000-20,000.

    Among more than 140 lots is a rare handwritten manuscript by Albert Einstein dealing with matter and cosmological structure and containing a variant of the central formula for his theory of general relativity ($60,000-80,000); a 1797 letter by Josephine Bonaparte requesting compensation for a Bolognese farmer whose hemp was confiscated by Napoleon’s army during the first campaign against the Papal States ($2,500-3,500);  an order signed by Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella punishing adulterous behavior in 1492 and written at the same time as Columbus was exploring the New World, shortly after his discovery of America ($10,000/12,000): six ink drawings by President Ronald Reagan on a sheet of White House stationery including a horse’s head, a self-portrait as a cowboy and cartoon characters including Fu Manchu and Jiggs ($9,000-12,000) and ten telegrams regarding survivors and casualties of the Titanic ($3,000-5000).

    The auction will take place online, partnering with Boston-based www.Invaluable.com, one of the world’s leading online auction platforms and www.eBayliveauctions.com, both of which offer live, real-time online bidding from around the world.  Lion Heart Autographs is a New York based dealer in autographs and manuscripts focusing on art, history, literature, music, and science.

    Charles Lindbergh signed fabric from the fuselage of the Spirit of St. Louis. All images courtesy Lion Heart Autographs

    Charles Lindbergh signed fabric from the fuselage of the Spirit of St. Louis. All images courtesy Lion Heart Autographs

    Rare manuscript written by Albert Einstein, Theory of Relativity

    Rare manuscript written by Albert Einstein, Theory of Relativity

    Signed order by Ferdinand & Isabella 1492

    Signed order by Ferdinand & Isabella 1492

    Example of one of ten telegrams sent after the sinking of the Titanic from survivors or relatives

    Example of one of ten telegrams sent after the sinking of the Titanic from survivors or relatives

    Ronald Reagan doodles courtesy Lion Heart Autographs

    Ronald Reagan doodles courtesy Lion Heart Autographs

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    A MASTERFUL SELF-PORTRAIT BY SIR PETER LELY

    Wednesday, June 1st, 2016
    Sir Peter Lely's self portrait.

    Sir Peter Lely’s self portrait.  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £869,000

    The top lot at Mealy’s Lotabeg sale – Sir Peter Lely’s portrait of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde – might at 120,000 have seemed expensive to some, but perhaps it was a bargain.  Now a masterful self-portrait by the artist is to be auctioned at Sotheby’s in London on July 6.  His iconic portraits of Charles II’s pleasure-seeking court made him the natural successor to Anthony van Dyck and the “best painter in England” of his time but Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680) was also one of the great international draughtsmen of his age. Sotheby’s will offer three of his most intimate surviving portrait drawings: the self-portrait – one of only two in existence and the only one remaining in private hands – and portraits of the artist’s son, John and his wife, Ursula. Never seen on the market the works have remained in the possession of the artist’s direct descendants  since they were drawn some 360 years ago.

    Sotheby’s say the self-portrait, with its grand scale, is one of the most powerful and important of all drawings created in 17th-century England. Made during the second half of the 1650’s, towards the end of the Cromwellian era, it shows the artist as a quietly self-assured and affable man in his mid to late thirties.  It is estimated at £600,000-800,000.  The portrait of John is estimated at £80,000-120,000, that of Ursula at £6,000-8,000.

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for May 1, 2016)

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    A SELF PORTRAIT BY THOMAS RYAN AT KEIGHERY’S

    Wednesday, June 1st, 2016

    What better way for an artist to produce a self portrait than to show himself at work?  An innovative self portrait by the Irish artist Thomas Ryan, a past president of the Royal Hibernian Academy, comes up at the next sale by R.J. Keighery in Waterford on June 13.  The artist, who was born in 1929, is probably more associated in the pubic mind with still life, flower studies and landscape than with nude models but this is how he chose to portray himself.  It is one of two works by the artist at Keighery’s. Liffey Up Stream is estimated at 5,000-7,000 and Self-Portrait is estimated at 4,000-6,000.

    Thomas Ryan - Self-portrait

    Thomas Ryan – Self-portrait

    Thomas Ryan - Liffey up Stream

    Thomas Ryan – Liffey up Stream

     

     

     

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    PAUL HENRY’S CONNEMARA LANDSCAPE TOPS WHYTE’S AUCTION

    Tuesday, May 31st, 2016
    Paul Henry, Connemara Landscape (80,000-120,000)

    Paul Henry, Connemara Landscape sold for 100,000 at hammer.

    Paul Henry’s Connemara Landscape was the top lot at Whyte’s sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin last night. It sold for 100,000 at hammer. A second Henry, West of Ireland Road through the Bog, made 82,000.  Both works were sold to a collector in Co. Clare.

    Sean Keating’s 1924 work Salud made 52,ooo.  Gerard Dillon’s  West of Ireland Couple and Horses sold for 36,000 and another Dillon, The Fish Eaters made 24,000, Miscellaneous Objects by Harry Kernoff sold for 28,000, Pond Reverie by Tony O’Malley made 22,000, a triptych by Barrie Cooke made 18,000 and Trapeze I by John Shinnors sold for 16,000 at hammer.

    The top Yeat’s in in the auction, A Professional Man from 1905, failed to find a buyer and a Basil Blackshaw with an estimate of 10,000-15,000 was also passed.  The sale total was 850,000,  80% of lots found buyers and a good number of sold works soared above the high estimate.  Whyte’s next sale is on July 25.

    (See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for May 24 and May 30, 2016)

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    A WIDE VARIETY OF IRISH ART AT WHYTE’S

    Monday, May 30th, 2016

    There is a wide variety of Irish art in various media at Whyte’s at the RDS in Dublin this evening.  The catalogue, which is online, features 171 lots and the auction will be live online.  Here is a taste of the sale:

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for May 24, 2016)

    Pond Reverie I 1994) by Tony O'Malley (20,000-30,000)

    Pond Reverie I 1994) by Tony O’Malley (20,000-30,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 22,000 AT HAMMER

    Charles Tyrrell Borderland XXX1 1991 (5,000-7,000)

    Charles Tyrrell Borderland XXX1 1991 (5,000-7,000)  UPDATE: THIS MADE 4,800

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    YEATS LEADS ADAMS JUNE 1 IRISH ART AUCTION

    Friday, May 27th, 2016

    A 1934 oil on board by Jack B Yeats – By Drumcliff Strand Long Ago – leads the James Adam sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin on June 1.  Originally in the collection of novelist Sir Hugh Walpole it was acquired in 1946 by Lord Killanin. It is estimated at 80,000-120,000. The auction of 169 lots features work by a variety of Irish artists from Paul Henry and Roderic O’Conor to Tony O’Malley and Louis le Brocquy.  The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:

    Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) By Drumcliffe Strand Long Ago (80,000-120,000)

    Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) By Drumcliffe Strand Long Ago (80,000-120,000)  UPDATE: THIS MADE 80,000 AT HAMMER

    Roderic O’Conor (1860 - 1940) Seated Woman (15,000-25,000)

    Roderic O’Conor (1860 – 1940) Seated Woman (15,000-25,000)  UPDATE: THIS MADE 24,000 AT HAMMER

    George Campbell RHA (1917-1979) Robert Morley - Actor (250-350)

    George Campbell RHA (1917-1979) Robert Morley – Actor (250-350) UPDATE: THIS MADE 520 AT HAMMER

    Howard Helmick (1845-1907) Presents for the Priest (1,500-2,000)

    Howard Helmick (1845-1907) Presents for the Priest (1,500-2,000)  UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,500 AT HAMMER.

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    STRONG DEMAND FOR BLACKSHAW AT DE VERES

    Thursday, May 26th, 2016
    Strong demand for Basil Blackshaw, the Northern Ireland artist who died earlier this month, was evident at de Veres Irish art auction in Dublin on May 25.  There were two works by Blackshaw in the auction.  Lot 92, an oil on paper entitled Farmhouse in a Landscape was estimated at 3,000-5,000 and sold for 12,500.   Lot 11, an oil on canvas titled Headland II dating from 1992, was estimated at 9,000-12,000 and sold for a hammer price of 11,500.
    The top lot in the sale was A Riverside Inn by Jack Butler Yeats which made 66,000.  The Ferry Boat by Yeats sold for 61,000 in a sale where 80% of lots on offer found buyers.  The sale total was 650,000.

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for May 19, 2016)

    Basil Blackshaw (1932-2016) - Headland II

    Basil Blackshaw (1932-2016) – Headland II

    Basil Blackshaw (1932-2016) Farmhouse

    Basil Blackshaw (1932-2016) Farmhouse in a Landscape

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