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A total of 235 lots are listed on the catalogue for Dolan’s Irish art and antiques auction at Castletroy Park Hotel in Limerick on November 9.  The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:

Kenneth Webb RWA FRSA ARUA
THE LILY POND (1,400-1,800).  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

John Schwatschke
RUSH HOUR (500-800).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 550

Henry Morgan
ATLANTIC COAST (300-500).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 400

Robert Egginton
CARAGH RIVER AT BLACKSTONES
BRIDGE, CO KERRY (800-1,200).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,140

Brian Ballard – Sunflowers (1,400-1,600).  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

More than 300 lots feature in Morgan O’Driscoll’s online auction of Irish art.  It runs until November 10 at 6.30 p.m.  The catalogue is on-line. Here is a small selection:

John Minihan’s portrait photograph of poet W.H. Auden from 1972 (300-400).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 360

Kenneth Webb RWA FRSA RUA (b.1927)
Lily Pond (3,000-4,000).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,800

Liam O’Neill (b.1954)
Brendan Behan (2,500-3,500).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,600

Peter Collis RHA (1929-2012)
Still Life – Fruit and Table Top (2,000-3,000).   UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,600

Daniel O’Neill (1920-1974)
Waves (1,500-2,500).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,500

THE 82 lots at Christie’s most ambitious yet evening sale of Post-War and Contemporary art in New York on November 12 carry a combined estimate of $600,000,000.  An unprecedented selection of paintings, sculpture and photographs, illuminate the extraordinary talent and uncompromising vision of some of the most influential artists of our time. Masterworks by Andy Warhol, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Jeff Koons, Martin Kippenberger, Cindy Sherman and many others who explore powerful ideas—of truth, provocation, beauty, and life itself—that reached their creative apotheosis in art. The auction reflects the current demand from new and seasoned International collectors’s  for the  best of the best, with prestigious provenances, and exceptional museum exhibition history.  Almost half of the works featured in the sale come fresh to the market, having remained in private collections for a decade or more, while nearly 62% of the works have been featured in major museum exhibitions.  My personal favourite from among them is the Kline.  You can click on the following link to watch an interesting video about Kline’s King Oliver.

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Franz Kline (1910-1962)
King Oliver – 1958 ($25-35 million). Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2014. UPDATE: IT MADE $26,485,000

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Four Marlons 1966 – in the region of $60 million. Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2014  UPDATE: IT MADE $69,605,000

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Triple Elvis [Ferus Type] 1963 – estimate in the region of $60 million. Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2014  UPDATE: IT MADE $81,925,000

Alberto Giacometti’s Chariot is estimated to achieve more than $100 million at Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern evening sale in New York on November 4.  It is considered to be the masterwork of his career and a seminal achievement of modern art.  The bronze depicts  a goddess frozen in motion on her large wheeled chariot.  It was conceived in 1950 and cast in 1951-52. This example, set apart by its gold patina, is one of the only two casts in private hands and is the first Chariot to appear at auction in 30 years. Six casts of the piece, which has its origins in Surrealism, were made during his lifetime.

The sale will feature the finest still life by Van Gogh to appear on the market in decades.  Still Life, Vase with Daisies and Poppies is estimated at $30-50 million.  Amadeo Modigliani’s Tete is estimated to make more than $45 million.  Exhibited at the Paris Salon d’Automne in 1912 it has never before been offered at auction. It was quarried from a single block of limestone. Modigliani found these on construction sites around Paris – including work on the Paris Metro. He carted them back by wheelbarrow to his studio in Montparnasse.

Alberto Giacometti – Chariot.  UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR $101 MILLION.

Amadeo Modigliani – Tete  UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR $70.7 MILLION

(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for September 29, 2014)