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Bidders can buy Irish art on-line at the third sale of 124 artworks underway at Morgan O’Driscoll’s.  The internet auction runs until January 30 at 7 p.m.  Heres how it works: from one to 500 euro bids increase by 20 euro, from 500 to 1,000 bids go up by 50 euro and over 1,000 each bid adds 100 euro.

As an example a 200 euro bid on a lot with an existing bid of 100 euro will come appear on screen as a current bid of 120.  If another bidder comes along bids will be added automatically on behalf of the 200 euro  bidder.   Should 200 euro be exceeded the 200 euro bidder will be notified by e-mail. A bid at 7 p.m. on January 30 will open the lot up for another five minutes, the under-bidder will be notified and a subsequent bid will open the lot for another three minutes.

A work by Mildred Ann Butler on Morgan O’Driscoll’s first on-line sale which ended on November 7 illustrates what can happen next.  The lot had been bid to 460 at 7 p.m. It was followed by a number of subsequent bids before being sold at 7.25 p.m. for 1,600.  Here are some examples from the current sale, which can be viewed on-line or at Morgan O’Driscoll’s premises in Skibbereen, west Cork:

Martin Stone (b.1963) 'Ploughing' (300 - 400). UPDATE: THIS MADE 200

Barrie Castle (1935-2006) 'Woman in a Blair Hat' limited edition print 306/500 (80 - 140). UPDATE: THIS MADE 40

Debbie Lush (20th/21st Century) 'Passionate Purple Poppy' (250 - 350). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

Ivan Sutton (b.1944) 'Anti-Fouling Galway Hooker, Roundstone' (est. 1,400-1,800). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

Verojan Yepreman (20th/21st Century) Russian 'A Banquet in Transit' (400 - 600) UPDATE: THIS MADE 320

Brian Bourke HRHA (b.1936) 'Scots Pine on Limestone' limited edition print 121/220 (150 - 250) UPDATE: THIS MADE 140

Denis Orme Shaw (20th/21st Century) 'Evening Reflections' watercolour (250 - €350) UPDATE: THIS MADE 340

Market Day by Arthur George Bell (1849-1916) showing the Nurnberg house of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) at Dolan's art auction in Cork. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,000

A Victorian watercolour of the Nuremberg House of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) features at the Dolan’s Irish art sale in Cork on January 22.  Market Day by Arthur George Bell features the house which was Dürer’s residence between 1509 and 1528.

The house has since been restored as a museum which includes the large painting and printing workshop from Dürer’s time.

Arthur George Bell, a British artist, exhibited widely in the late 19th century at galleries including the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Scottish Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy.  Market Day, in its original ornate gilt frame, is estimated at 1,000-1,500.

See post on antiquesandartireland.com for January 17, 2012.

Bacon's Portrait of Henrietta Moraes. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £21,321,250

A rare female nude billed  by Christie’s as Francis Bacon’s most seductive female portrait comes up at the Post War and Contemporary sale in London on February 14.  Portrait of Henrietta Moraes, painted towards the end of 1963, is to be auctioned for the first time.  The sitter, a regular fixture at the artist’s favourite haunt, The Colony Room in Soho, was muse to a number of contemporary artists. Once the lover of Lucian Freud she appeared as his sitter in Girl in a Blanket (1952).

Christie’s head of post war and contemporary art in Europe Francis Outred said:  “Searing with raw colour and texture, Portrait of Henrietta Moraes is one of the most seductive and sexually charged paintings I have ever encountered by Francis Bacon. The carefully constructed mood through colour is forcefully invaded by the extraordinary swipes of the loaded brush, which create the woman’s voluptuous figure. This juxtaposition of the sheer beauty of colour with the brutal physicality of paint is what makes Bacon’s art so remarkable”.

The estimate is undisclosed, but is put at around £18 million.

Edgar Degas (1834-1917) Autoportrait painted c1857-1858 (£350,000 - £450,000). Copyright Christies Images 2012. (Click to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS MADE £713,250

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Vue de l'asile et de la Chapelle de Saint-Rémy Painted in Saint-Rémy, Autumn 1889, £5-7 million. Copyright Christies Images 2012. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR £10.1 MILLION.

A landscape by Vincent van Gogh, Vue de l’Asile de la Chapelle de Saint-Remy is the most valuable painting from Elizabeth Taylor’s 38 artworks to be sold at Christie’s in London in February. The painting, estimated at £5-7 million, was subject of a restitution claim by the heirs of a German Jewish art collector. The claim was not upheld by US Supreme Court.

The art collection of the late actress, which will feature in sales on February 7 and 8, includes an Edgar Degas self-portrait and works by Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir and 22 paintings and drawings by Augustus John.  Elizabeth Taylor’s art dealer father Francis became John’s American agent when he moved his business to California at the outbreak of the Second World War.  The collection includes a portrait of John’s daughter Poppet, bought in 1979 an a 1915 depiction of Galway fisherfolk.

UPDATE: The grand total for the complete Elizabeth Taylor Collection, calculated when the gavel fell on the final lot in London on February 8, amounted to £117,247,761 pounds sterling or $183.5 million dollars. The 38 works of art in the collection sold for £15.6 million sterling.  This included 13 works by Augustus John which made  £192,825 against an estimate of £152,000 for the group.

This 1915 depiction of Galway Fisherfolk by Augustus John (1878-1961) is from the Elizabeth Taylor art collection to be sold at Christie's in February. It is estimated at 2,900-3,900 euro. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS MADE £5,625.

Augustus Edwin John, O.M., R.A. (1878-1961) Portrait of Poppet, the artist's daughter, £40,000-60,000. Copyright Christies Images 2012. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS MADE £85,250.

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) Pommiers à Éragny Painted in 1894, £900,000-£1.2 million. Copyright Christies Images 2012. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: This made £2,953,250

The Orchard by Edith Somerville at Dolan's art auction in Cork. (Click to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,400

The Drawing Room by Norman Teeling at Dolan's Cork art auction. It is estimated at 750-850. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 875 EURO

An oil on board by the painter, illustrator and writer Edith Somerville (1858-1949) features at Dolan’s art auction at Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork on January 22.   The artist – who is best known as co-author with her cousin Violet Martin of Some Experiences of an Irish RM – studied with Whistler in Paris.  She was a suffragette and president of the Munster Women’s Franchise League, as well as being master of the West Carbery Foxhounds and organist at St Barrahane’s Church at Castletownshend in west Cork from 1875 to 1945.
There are 228 lots on the Dolan’s Cork catalogue.

Sir William Orpen: Portrait of Rosie, Fourth Marchioness of Headfort (£300,000-500,000). (The earrings in this portrait made 42,500 Swiss francs at Sotheby's in Geneva in 2011). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £577,250.

A scorching Orpen swagger portrait of Rosie, Fourth Marchioness of Headfort will highlight Sotheby’s sale of British and Irish art in London on May 10, 2012.  It is one of two portraits of the  4th Marquis and Marchioness of Headfort by Sir William Orpen.  Rose commissioned the portraits and they were almost invariably exhibited in the same exhibitions, although – save for one occasion at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool – not actually hung together. They were first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in the 147th Summer Exhibition of 1915.

Sir William Orpen, R.A., R.H.A. (1878-1931). Portrait of Geoffrey, Fourth Marquis of Headfort (£60,000-80,000). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.

Rose Boote, later 4th Marchioness of Headfort (1878-1958) was a Gaiety Girl who sang the part of Maisie ‘The Messenger Boy’ in 1900 under her professional name of Miss Rosie Boote. She was the daughter of a comedian from Nottingham and a straw hat sewer.  ‘Gaiety Girls’ was the name given to the chorus line girls who sang in musical comedy spectacles at the Gaiety Theatre on the Strand, London.

The marriage surprised and intrigued Edwardian society. Even Queen Victoria was said to have commented. The Marquis was from one of the most prominent Protestant families in Ireland and Rose was a Catholic. He was one of the most eligible young men of the day who succeeded to the title and estates in Ireland totalling about 22,000 acres on the death of his father in 1894. After the marriage Rose left the theatre and lived at Headfort House in Ireland and in London. They had three children. He died in 1943, she lived until 1958.   Never before on the market Portrait of Rosie, Fourth Marchioness of Headfort is estimated at £300,000-500,000 and Portrait of Geoffrey, Fourth Marquis of Headfort is estimated at £60,000-80,000.  They came to Sotheby’s by family descent.

In 2012 Sotheby’s is re-designing its traditional auctions of Victorian and Edwardian Art, and Irish Art. These sales will be re-titled British and Irish Art: Victorian/Early 20th Century/Sporting/Marine/Scottish/Irish.