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DOLAN’S SUMMER IRISH ART AUCTION AT BANTRY HOUSE

Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

MORE than 230 lots will come under the hammer at Dolan’s summer Irish art auction in Bantry House, west Cork on August 12. This summer art auction is carefully designed to appeal to a broad cross section of Irish taste. It will include 14 lots from the studio of artist Val Byrne to be sold without reserve. The catalogue is on-line. Here is a small selection. You can click on any image to enlarge.

UPDATE: The top lot was Mark O’Neill image of a farmyard dog from the front cover of the catalogue. It made 4,500. Works by Arthur Maderson, Arthur Armstrong and Markey Robinson sold well and the auction was 85 per cent sold.

Val Byrne – Bantry House (450-650). UPDATE: THIS MADE 300.

Kenneth Webb – Macroom Castle (800-1,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 600.

The Illustrated London News, October 8, 1853 with illustrations of laying the foundation stone for Victorian Pier, Queenstown and the opening of the new floating docks in Limerick. (23-35). UPDATE: THIS WAS WITHDRAWN.

Val Byrne – Sneem Village, Kerry (450-650). UPDATE: THIS MADE 350.

Val Byrne – Kinsale (750-900). UPDATE: THIS MADE 450.

Maurice Wilks (1910-1984) Currachs by the shore (2,500-3,500). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.

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ON-LINE AUCTION OF FINE WINES AT CHRISTIE’S

Sunday, August 5th, 2012

A collection of Chateauneuf-du-Pape features a 1995 Magnum, seven bottles of 1995 vintage and one 1999 vintage, all Chateau Beaucastel, estimate $600-800.

Signature Cellars, Christie’s on-line only auction of fine and rare vintage wines, runs from August 6 to August 20. There are hard to source Californian wines from Harlan Estate and Screaming Eagle as well as ’82 Lafite and Labour, pre and post war vintages and magnums of champagne.

The sale features vintage port and Bandol wines from the legendary Domaine Tempier. A mix of collectible blue chip wines and approachably priced selections it represents much time invested in client relationships by Christie’s North American specialists.

This is the first in a series of planned on-line only auctions that will run in parallel to traditional sales room activity. The sale marks the next major step in e commerce activity at Christie’s.

In the first half of 2012 growth in on-line activity at Christie’s rose by 20 per cent and there has been a 15 per cent increase in customers bidding via Christe’s Live.

UPDATE: The sale, which has ended, brought in $819,715. The top lot was a case of 1982 Chateau Lafite which made $42,350 including buyer’s premium. There were 444 registered bidders from 29 countries and 88% of the 301 lots were sold.

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CARLO MOLLINO FURNITURE FROM CASA CATTANEO AT CHRISTIE’S

Saturday, August 4th, 2012

Dining suite
Oak, chestnut and linoleum, 1953, comprising of:
Large dining table: 79 x 160 x 64 cm.
Small dining table: 79 x 99.5 x 89.5 cm.
Ten dining chairs, each: 94 x 38 x 45 cm.
Estimate: £500,000 – 700,000. (Click on image to enlarge).

A collection of furnishings from Casa Cattaneo designed by Carlo Mollino – the most sought-after 20th century Italian designer – will feature at Christie’s sale of 20th Century Decorative Art & Design next October 23. Constructed on the foothills of the Alps, and benefitting from majestic views over Lake Maggiore, the Casa Cattaneo endures as a unique and complete surviving expression of Carlo Mollino’s distinctive architecture and interior design. Casa Cattaneo is the only private villa ever designed by Mollino and is one of very few of his structures to remain intact. Comprising 10 lots the collection is expected to realise in excess of £700,000.
From the late 1940’s to the mid 1950’s Carlo Mollino (1905-1973) produced a spectacular portfolio of works and projects including domestic commissions, hotel interiors and commercial developments. In the ’50’s and ’60’s he turned increasingly to technical projects, designing racetracks for cars, filling stations and aircraft hangers. He held various technical patents and designed cars. Remarkably little physical evidence for such a versatile creator survives. Only a dozen of his buildings remain, most have been altered, abandoned or changed beyond recognition and furniture was produced in limited quantities for specific commissions. Christie’s hold the auction record for a work by Mollino. A unique oak, glass and wood table designed for Casa Orengo in 1949 sold for $3.8 million in New York in 2005.

Casa Cattaneo, overlooking Lake Maggiore.

Casa Cattaneo fireplace. (Click on image to enlarge).

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DOLAN’S IRISH ART SALE AT BALLYNAHINCH CASTLE

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

THE glorious setting of Ballynahinch Castle in Connemara is the venue for an Irish art auction on August Bank Holiday Monday. Galway based Dolan’s Irish art auction house will offer a substantial selection of around 250 lots of painting and sculpture. A pencil drawing of a Connemara mare and foal by Jack B. Yeats is a feature lot, as is a bronze 1631 mortar inscribed to commemorate a marriage between two great Galway families (see post on antiquesandartireland.com for July 19, 2012). Here is a small selection. You can click on any image to enlarge it. The catalogue is online.

CONNEMARA MARE AND FOAL, pen, ink and watercolour by Jack B. Yeats (8,000-12,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 14,000

THE CARPENTER by Cliodhna Cussen (500-700). UPDATE: THIS MADE 475.

MAEDBH’S ARMY by John Behan RHA (1,500-2,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,200.

PEONY WHITE by Mark O’Neill (6,800-7,500). UPDATE: THIS MADE 5,600.

RED AS NIGHT by Norah McGuinness HRHA (4,000-5,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 5,500.

WINTER FARM by Kenneth Webb RWA FRSA RUA (4,200-4,800). UPDATE: THIS MADE 8,500.

STILL LIIFE WITH CHARDONNAY AND STILTON by David ffrench le Roy (700-900). UPDATE: THIS MADE 800.

CHILDREN ON THE BEACH by James le Jeune RHA (1,400-1,800). UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,900.

EVENING, CONNEMARA by Douglas Alexander (1871 – 1945), oil on canvas (500-700). UPDATE: THIS MADE 475

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AN AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY ART SALE IN WEST CORK

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

A summer art auction with over 160 lots takes place in Skibbereen in west Cork on August 6, Bank Holiday Monday. Auctioneer Morgan O’Driscoll will offer a broad cross section of paintings, drawings, watercolours and prints at his premises on Ilen St., Skibbereen. Here is a small selection. You can click on any image to enlarge it. The catalogue is on line.

Tony O’Malley HRHA (1913-2003) ‘Kites 1974’ (800-1,200). UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,200.

Claudio Viscardi (20th/21st Century) ‘Beara Penninsula’ (500-700). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.

David Russell (20th/21st Century) ‘Seamus Heaney’ charcoal drawing (600-800). UPDATE: THIS MADE 525

Markey Robinson (1918-1999) ‘Returning Home’ (1,400-1,800). UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,400.

Gwen O’Dowd (b.1952) ‘Waterbased 43’ (500-800). UPDATE: THIS MADE 550.

William Crozier HRHA (1930-2011) ‘Verona Garden’ Limited Edition Print signed & numbered 48/80 Dated 2007 (1,000-1,400). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.

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AN OLYMPIC MOMENT AT CHRISTIE’S, SOUTH KENSINGTON

Saturday, July 28th, 2012

First Place Olympic Medal, Athens 1896 silver medal designed by J.C.Chaplain (1839-1909), estimated at £20,000 – 30,000. (Click on image to enlarge). Courtesy, Christies Images Ltd. 2012.

Walter Herz (b.1909) Olympic Games London 1948 lithograph in colours. Estimate £1,000-1,500. Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2012. (Click on image to enlarge).

THE Olympic Games now underway after a truly spectacular opening ceremony in London last night will be marked in all sorts of ways.

In keeping with the Celebration of Britain theme at the opening the auction house Christie’s has put together an exhibition entitled My London: Art & Icons, Then & Now. On view at South Kensington, where it will be auctioned on September 3, it comprises over 150 lots ranging from a 1948 London Olympics poster to an iconic red London bus.

The double decker bus, which can be viewed by appointment, dates from 1966 and is estimated at £20,000-30,000. A lithograph of the Olympic Games, London, 1948 is more affordably estimated at £1,000-1,500.

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BRONZE JAPANESE TEMPLE BELL AT CORK AUCTION

Saturday, July 28th, 2012

The Japanese temple bell is in original condition. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.

The cameo vase with the mark of d’Argental. UPDATE: THIS MADE 350.

A large 19th century Japanese bronze temple bell, dating from the late Edo period c1850, is one of the more unusual lots at the sale at Cork Auction Rooms on July 28. The bell, which is inscribed, measures 52cms across by 40 cms high. It is estimated at 1,200-1,500.

Other lots on offer include a collection of Irish maps, three sketches by the Northern Ireland artist Colin Middleton and a c1930 French cameo vase signed by the firm d’Argental, the signature mark adopted by Cristalleries St Louis, which began operations in 1924. It is estimated at 500-600.

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A HOUSE CONTENTS AUCTION IN CO. MEATH

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

A view of some lots from the auction at Laracor Rectory, Trim, Co. Meath. (Click on image to enlarge).

This photograph illustrates some lots from a house contents auction in Co. Meath. The venue is Laracor Rectory at Trim and the sale will take place on Sunday, July 29 at 2 p.m.

The 18th century secretaire in the photo is estimated at 2,500-3,500, the satinwood writing desk has an estimate of 4,000-7,000 and the estimate on the pair of Regency hall chairs is 1,200 to 1,600.

Matthews of Olcastle are the auctioneers. There is a varied selection of over 600 lots. Included is an antique Killarney wood centre table, four large leather bound volumes of Edwardian, Irish and English hunts, an early Victorian partners desk, a pair of Georgian fold over card tables, an Irish plate bucket, a pair of cast iron garden seats, a William IV settee, a George II bureau and an inlaid Edwardian display cabinet.

There is some jewellery including a diamond ring in excess of four carats. The catalogue is on-line.

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A 1631 MARRIAGE BETWEEN TWO GALWAY FAMILIES COMMEMORATED

Thursday, July 19th, 2012

The 17th Century Bronze /Bell Metal Mortar at Dolan’s art auction. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS MADE 8,250.

An extremely rare 1631 mortar inscribed to commemorate a marriage between two great Galway families, the Joyces and the Brownes, is a feature lot at Dolan’s art auction in Ballynahinch Castle on August 6. The mid 17th century bronze or bell metal mortar probably originated in England or in the north east of Continental Europe. The inscription on the rim – E. BROVNE … 1631 … T. IOYES – was probably added later. The piece has passed down to the vendor through generations of the Lynch family of Belclare, Co. Galway.

It was of practical use and may have been put on the table to grind herbs and spices. This was a symbol of wealth as only the most privileged would have been in a position to import spices from the East Indies. The handles appear to be modelled on late medieval gargoyles used as water spouts in buildings of the time. They resemble hippopotamus heads, a possible allusion to the exotic nature of the spices being ground. It dates from a time when leading merchants often resided in fortified town houses in Galway. Lynch’s Castle, on Shop Street, Galway is an example of one such fortified townhouse. The foundry where it came from would have manufactured bronze and brass bells and military cannon.

Dolan’s is grateful to Dr Pat Wallace, former Director of the National Museum of Ireland, to Dr Patrick Melvin, and to the staff of the National Museum of
Ireland for their advice and assistance in cataloguing this Mortar.

The August Bank Holiday Monday auction in the wonderfully scenic Connemara surroudings of Ballynahinch offers a good selection of Irish art and sculpture plus a number of lots of furniture, silver and porcelain.

A detail of the mortar showing part of the inscription. (Click on image to enlarge).

A detail of the mortar showing the date. The maker had a set of letters, but no numbers, so ‘I’ was used as a ‘One’ and the numbers six and three have been inscribed. (Click on image to enlarge).

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SALES UP 13% AT CHRISTIE’S, 15% INCREASE IN NUMBERS BIDDING ON-LINE

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012

Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow sold on May 8 for $86,882,500 a world record price for any contemporary work of art sold at auction.

Global sales at Christie’s are up 13% to £2.2 billion ($3.5 billion) on the first six months of 2012. Growth in on-line activity saw a 15% increase in the number of clients bidding on line and a 20% increase in visitors to the company website. Collectors from 124 countries registered to bid at global auctions and private sales are up by 53% to £413.4 million.

Post-War and Contemporary art led the categories with auction sales of £576.1 million ($921.8 million) up 34%. The New York auction on May 8 brought in $388.5 million (£240.9 million) and was the most valuable auction ever in Post-War and Contemporary art. In the first six months of 2012, Christie’s sold 340 works at auction for over $1 million (376 in the same period 2011) and 26 for over $10 million (18 in the same period 2011). The market at more accessible price levels also performed strongly; Christie’s South Kensington saleroom, which offers works of art from under £1,000, built on two consecutive years of record sales and recorded its highest ever total.

Christie’s chief executive Steven P. Murphy said: “We’ve seen a steady increase in sales at Christie’s driven by three key factors: growing worldwide demand for art, the quality and curation of important consignments and our consistency in offering the best service and broadest choice to our clients”.

The second half of the year began strongly with the evening auction of Old Master and British Paintings in London on July 3 which realised £85.1 million, a record total for the category. Christie’s will launch the first in a series of online-only auctions for a global collecting category in August with a sale of fine and rare wines. Coinciding with the Olympic Games, Christie’s South Kensington will present The London Sale. An extended public exhibition will start on July 27 and run through to the auction on September 3.

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