antiquesandartireland.com

Information about Art, Antiques and Auctions in Ireland and around the world
  • ABOUT
  • About Des
  • Contact

    • Archive for the ‘AUCTIONS’ Category

    RORY GALLAGHER’S GUITAR AND A NEW CD BOXSET COLLECTION

    Saturday, October 5th, 2024

    The cover of the BBC’s new Rory Gallagher boxset.

    The Rory Gallagher Collection headed by his legendary 1961 Fender Stratocaster guitar will be exhibited at Bonhams, New Bond St., London from October 12-17, when it will be auctioned.  The incredible musical legacy of the legendary blues rock guitarist is celebrated by the release on October 11 of a new boxset of his recorded performances at the BBC.

    Rory Gallagher The BBC Collection is a 20 disc set that includes 18 CD’s of radio concerts and sessions from 1971 to 1986 and two Blu Ray discs of BBC TV concerts and studio performances from 1973 to 1984.  Though possibly the most recorded musician by the BBC in the 1970’s more than three quarters of the audio recordings have not been released before.  Two CD and triple LP sets – The Best of Rory Gallagher at the BBC – will also be released.

    Rory Gallagher’s iconic 1961 Fender Stratocaster. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £700,000

    In Cork a crowdfunding campaign has been underway since July to bring his iconic Fender Stratocaster back home.  This treasured instrument became synonymous with Gallagher and its wear and worn finish have made it one of the world’s most instantly recognisable electric guitars. It has featured in a number of landmark exhibitions, appeared on the cover of countless guitar magazines, and has been played by the likes of Johnny Marr and Joe Bonamassa.

    The crowdfunder was initiated by Sheena Crowley of Crowleys Music Shop where Rory bought the guitar for £100 on an instalment plan in 1963.  Sheena’s dream is that it might become the centrepiece of a new music museum on the banks of the River Lee.

     Rory Gallagher’s Fender Esquire electric guitar (1959). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £95,650

    The auction consists of guitars, amps and accessories from Rory Gallagher’s life and career.  It will include a Fender Player Stratocaster HSS electric guitar donated by Fender to benefit the Music Venue Trust, a charity chosen by the Gallagher family dedicated to protecting, securing and improving grassroots music venues. This has been signed by a number of musicians who cite Rory as an influence, including David Gilmour, Johnny Marr, Ed O’Brien, Nile Rodgers and James Bay.

    Highlights include a Fender Telecaster electric guitar (1966), a 1958 Fender Stratocaster known as Rory’s backup strat, a Fender Esquire electic guitar (1959), a Martin D-35 flat top acoustic guitar (1968), a Martin mandolin (1942), a Gibson Les Paul junior electric guitar (1958), a National Triolian resonator guitar (1930) and a Gretsch Corvette electric guitar  (1963).

    Rory’s brother and former manager Donal commented: ““After nearly thirty years since my brother Rory’s passing, I now believe it’s time for other people to cherish Rory’s ‘orphaned’ 1961 Fender Stratocaster and the rest of his incredible instrument collection. Since 1995, I have always felt that there was a mission to be fulfilled to cement Rory’s legacy and widen the knowledge of his music”.

    The live auction on October 17, now open for bidding, consists of  94 lots.  A timed online sale with 91 lots with guitars, amps, pedals, instruments, flight cases and accessories runs from October 7-18. 

    A rare Tychobrahe Octavia 1976/77 from the Rory Gallagher collection. This is an effects pedal designed for Jimi Hendrix and made by the Tychobrahe Sound Company in California. UPDATE: THIS MADE £3,840.

    Tags: , ,
    Posted in AUCTIONS, COLLECTIBLES | No Comments »

    ADAMS ANNUAL COUNTRY HOUSE COLLECTIONS SALE AT TOWNLEY HALL

    Thursday, October 3rd, 2024

    VICTORIAN WALNUT TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY INLAID CREDENZA. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    This fine Victorian credenza comes up on day one of the James Adam annual Country House Collections sale at Townley Hall on October 14. Bidding is now open for day one of the sale, a timed online auction of 245 lots. The credenza is lot number 237 and is estimated at €3,000-€5,000. There will be a live auction with 460 lots at St. Stephen’s Green on the following day. Viewing gets underway at Townley Hall near Drogheda on October 12. The carefully curated sale is drawn from country houses right around Ireland and the vast majority of lots have been sourced from Irish private collections. This annual auction has become one of the highlights of the antique and fine arts calendar in Ireland.

    Tags: ,
    Posted in ART, AUCTIONS, COLLECTIBLES, FURNITURE | No Comments »

    FREUD PORTRAIT IN THE HISTORICAL TRADITION AT CHRISTIE’S

    Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024

    Lucian Freud –  Ria, Naked Portrait. Painted in 2006-2007. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £11,810,000

    A seminal work by Lucian Freud – Ria, Naked Portrait – with an estimate of £10 million – £15 million is a highlight at Christie’s 20th/21st century evening sale in London on October 9 during Frieze Week. The painting is deeply rooted in the art historical tradition of the reclining female nude, drawing from a lineage that includes Giorgione, Titian, and Velázquez, and finds a modern culmination in Édouard Manet’s Olympia (1863), a work that Lucian Freud greatly admired.

    The sitter, Ria Kirby, was an art handler whom Freud initially met at the Victoria & Albert Museum during his joint exhibition with Frank Auerbach in 2006. Ria went on to become one of his most significant sitters during the final decade of his life, with sessions totalling an intense 2,400 hours over the course of 16 months. Ria, Naked Portrait was completed in 2007 and it is the only portrait of Ria the artist realised. The painting is offered at auction for the first time.

    UPDATE: The sale total was £81,980,050

    Tags: , ,
    Posted in ART, AUCTIONS | No Comments »

    SEATED FIGURE BY BREON O’CASEY AT WHYTE’S

    Monday, September 30th, 2024

    BREON O’CASEY (1928-2011) – SEATED FIGURE (1990). UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,800 AT HAMMER

    This unique brass figure by Breon O’Casey comes up as lot number 83 at Whyte’s sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin this evening. The estimate is €2,000-€3,000. A prominent member of the St. Ives School he was a versatile jewellery, weaver, painter and sculptor. O’Casey was a son of the Irish playwright Sean O’Casey.  Included in the sale are major works by Jack Butler Yeats, Paul Henry, Grace Henry, William Orpen, Seán Keating, Mildred Anne Butler, William Percy French, William Conor, Mary Swanzy, Colin Middleton, Daniel O’Neill, Nano Reid, Patrick Collins, Camille Souter, Norah McGuinness, Patrick Hennessy, Donald Teskey, Rowan Gillespie, Anthony Scott, Liam O’Neill, Rita Duffy and many more.

    Tags: ,
    Posted in ART, AUCTIONS | No Comments »

    ESCAPE FROM THE CHATEAU AT VICTOR MEE AUCTION

    Sunday, September 29th, 2024

    A late 17th/early 18th century Aubusson silk and wool tapestry UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    An antique Aubusson tapestry or an Irish 18th carved giltwood mirror?  The choice is yours at Victor Mee’s  Escape from the Chateau sale with more than 1,900 lots on October 1, 2, 3 and 4 from 6.30 pm each day.  The primary vendor is an Irish antique dealer who is moving home from his chateau in the Charente region.

    With an estimate of €6,000-€12,000 the tapestry is one of the top lots from his collection which features antique, interior and decorative lots including an Irish mahogany side table (€4,000-€6,000), a Sheraton four poster bed (€3,000-€6,000), an 18th century Dublin pier mirror, a c1765 giltwood mirror with C scroll carving (€3,000-€6,000 each), Middle Eastern decorative items including coffee tables, lanterns, chargers and coffee pots (€50 to €100) and even a 19th century Dublin pawnbrokers sign from Queen St. (€600-€1,200).  The auction is on view in Co. Cavan and the catalogue is online.

    Irish 18th century carved giltwood pier mirror. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,900 AT HAMMER

    Tags: ,
    Posted in ART, AUCTIONS, COLLECTIBLES, FURNITURE | No Comments »

    DEBORAH BROWN STUDIO COLLECTION AT ADAMS IN DUBLIN

    Sunday, September 29th, 2024

    Red Figure, 1957 by Deborah Brown. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,000 AT HAMMER

    A timed auction of the Deborah Brown collection is underway at Adams until October 1.  This is a studio collection of her work with reasonable estimates along with art by friends and contemporaries including Mainie Jellett, Evie Hone, James Humbert Craig, Alice Berger Hammerschlag, William Scott and Basil Blackshaw whose art she admired.

    Largely unknown at home Deborah Brown, who died in her mid ’90’s last year, was an artist of international repute who evolved into abstraction in the 1950’s and exhibited at the New Vision Centre gallery in London, the Free Painters Group and the Arnolfini in Bristol.  A retrospective at the Ulster Museum and the Hugh Lane Gallery was held in 1982 and another at the F E McWilliam gallery in 2012-13.

    Tags: ,
    Posted in ART, AUCTIONS | No Comments »

    YEATS AND HENRY AT WHYTE’S IMPORTANT IRISH ART SALE

    Saturday, September 28th, 2024

    JACK B YEATS – The Top of the Tide UPDATE: THIS MADE 210,000 AT HAMMER

    The two figures depicted by Yeats in The Top of the Tide (1955) seem to contemplate something way out there and way out of reach. The men  – one suggestive of the 18th century – are made to seem partly transparent In a vibrant landscape of blues and yellows.

    The context of the painting made by Yeats in his ’80’s is the fragility of human existence. The artist declared it ready for exhibition in February 1956 and died a year later in March 1957. In a catalogue note Dr. Roisin Kennedy quotes Beckett on Yeats:  “One does not realise how still his pictures are till one looks at others, almost petrified, a sudden suspension of the performance, of the convention of sympathy and antipathy, meeting and parting, joy and sorrow”.

    The Top of the Tide will lead Whyte’s sale of Important Irish Art at Freemason’s Hall, Molesworth St., Dublin on the evening of September 30 with an estimate of €250,000-€350,000.

    UPDATE: The sale grossed over €1.3 million

    PAUL HENRY – The Stony Fields of Kerry  UPDATE: THIS MADE 180,000 AT HAMMER

    A trio of works by Paul Henry is headed by The Stony Fields of Kerry (€150,000-€200,000) thought to have been painted after a late summer holiday in Glenbeigh in 1934. Killary Bay c1919-1920 and Keel Bay, Achill c1910-1919 by Henry are estimated respectively at €70,000-€90,000 and €60,000-€80,000.

    Among a selection of major works in this sale of 149 lots is Water Party, Kilmurry 1891-92 by Mildred Anne Butler (€15,000-€20,000) exhibited at the Watercolour Society of Ireland in 1893.  An exhibition of work by the artist – where Butler is lauded as one of Ireland’s first professional women artists – is on view at the National Gallery of Ireland until next January. 

    There is art by Grace Henry, William Orpen, Sean Keating, Percy French, William Conor, Mary Swanzy, Colin Middleton, Dan O’Neill, Nano Reid, Norah McGuinness, Patrick Hennessy, Donald Teskey, Rowan Gillespie, Rita Duffy in a sale which is on view all weekend and on Monday at Whyte’s in Dublin.

    MILDRED ANNE BUTLER – Water Party, Kilmurry. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    Tags: , , ,
    Posted in ART, AUCTIONS | No Comments »

    LIMERICK VIEWING FOR ONLINE SALE OF LOTS FROM POWERSCOURT HOTEL

    Saturday, September 28th, 2024

    A collection of items from McGill’s Bar at Powerscourt Hotel Resort and Spa will feature at Aidan Foley’s online sale in Limerick next Tuesday and Wednesday. The sale will be on view at Cleeve’s warehouse in Limerick on September 28, 29 and 30 and the catalogue is online. Lot 731 (pictured here) is the entrance to McGill’s Bar including doors and side cabinets. Lot 340 is a gigantic model of The Yeti, the ape like creature reputed to inhabit the Himalayas and among 847 lots there are vintage collectibles, memorabilia, decor, lighting and furniture.

    Tags:
    Posted in AUCTIONS, COLLECTIBLES | No Comments »

    HISTORIC DIAMOND JEWEL AT SOTHEBY’S IN GENEVA

    Thursday, September 26th, 2024

    UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR US$4.8 MILLION

    THIS rare and highly important 18th century diamond jewel weighing approximately 300 carats will highlight Sotheby’s Royal and Noble sale in Geneva on November 11. Though its precise origin story is not recorded, such an important and historic antique jewel could only have been created for royalty or a high-ranking aristocrat at one of the glittering courts of the ancient régime – most the French or English court. It is thought that some of the diamonds featured in this jewel may have come from the famous necklace linked to what became the scandal of the “Affair of the Necklace” which contributed to the advent of the French revolution and eventually Marie-Antoinette’s death. It has emerged from a private Asian collection and is making a first public appearance in 50 years.  It belonged to the Marquesses of Anglesey, a leading Anglo-Welsh aristocratic family with close ties to the British Royal family in the early 20th century. In 1937, Marjorie Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey (eldest daughter of Henry Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland), wore the jewel to the coronation of King George VI, together with the famous Anglesey tiara. She was immortalised wearing her coronation robes and diamond jewel by the renowned society photographer Cecil Beaton. In 1953, her daughter-in-law attended the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the same ensemble of heirloom jewels. The seventh Marquess of Anglesey parted with the piece around the 1960s.

    The late 18th century jewel is a technically stunning piece of jewellery composed of three rows of diamonds finished with a diamond tassel at each end. Jewels of this era were characterised by their opulence and versatility of use: one piece could be worn as a necklace or sewn onto a piece of clothing as an ornament. In this case the jewel – also referred to as “négligé” – can be worn around the neck with the tassels hanging or tied in a simple knot. All diamonds are in an old mine brilliant cut, weighing between one and one and half carats each. The estimate is 1,600,000 – 2,400,000 CHF / $1,800,000 – 2,800,000.

    Portrait of Marjorie Paget, Lady Anglesey, wearing the 18th century jewel and the Anglesey Tiara for the coronation of King George VI by Cecil Beaton, 1937 courtesy of Condé Nast Archive

    Tags: , ,
    Posted in AUCTIONS, Miscellaneous | No Comments »

    RARE IRISH METHER CRAFTED FROM WILLOW AT BONHAMS

    Tuesday, September 24th, 2024

    A rare Irish mether, possibly 14th-15th century.

    This very rare Irish mether is a highlight at Bonhams Vernacular Furniture, Folk and Naïve Art and Textiles sale online from October 4-22.  Irish methers, or ‘maeddhers’, are rare and this example is thought to be from the 14th or 15th century, crafted from willow. It is illustrated in Owen Evan-Thomas’ book ‘Domestic Utensils of Wood’ and was once a part of the author’s own private collection which he amassed over 40 years, although in this time he rarely came across any similar examples. The mether would have been used during a celebration or ceremony, when ‘medd’ or ‘mead’ would be consumed from a corner of the vessel’s quadrangular rim, before being passed hand-to-hand using its large and striking handles. From a private collection in Penrith, Cumbria it is estimated at £3,000-35,000. It will be on view at Bonhams, Knightsbridge from October 20-22.

    Tags: ,
    Posted in AUCTIONS, COLLECTIBLES | No Comments »

    « Older Entries
    Newer Entries »