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    YEATS AND HENRY AT BONHAMS IN NOVEMBER

    Saturday, October 8th, 2011

    IMPORTANT paintings by paintings by Yeats and Henry will feature at Bonham’s sale of 20th century British and Irish art in London on November 16.  Paul Henry’s Running for Shelter featured at the artist’s annual exhibition in Dublin in 1938.  It is estimated at £120,000-180,000. The Jack Butler Yeats work, entitled A Giant Reading, has always been in the same private collection. It is estimated at £70,000-100,000.

    Paul Henry, Running for Shelter. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: IT MADE £175,250

    Jack Butler Yeats, A Giant Reading. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: IT MADE £88,250

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    SOME IRISH FURNITURE FROM ADAMS AUCTION IN SLANE CASTLE

    Thursday, October 6th, 2011

    HERE is some Irish furniture from the James Adam Country House Collections sale at Slane Castle, Co.  Meath on October 11.  The auction of 700 lots features fine furniture, silver, glass, porcelain, pictures and photography. You can click on any image to enlarge.  (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for September 30).

    An early 18th century Irish walnut framed wing sofa with modern plaque Apter Fredericks Eighteenth Century English Furniture, 265-167 Fulham Road, London and with the paper label of P.J. Walsh & Sons, 20 Bachelor's Walk, Dublin. Illustrated in Glin/Peill Irish Furniture, No 46 p.215. (10,000-15,000) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    A satinwood crossbanded and marquetry inlaid commode by James Hicks of Dublin (6,000-10,000). UPDATE. THIS MADE 10,000 AT HAMMER.

    A set of four Irish c1740 red walnut single chairs. Provenance : The Property of The Honourable Irish Society 2,000-3,000. UPDATE: THESE MADE 2,800.

    A 19th century Irish mahogany centre table in Georgian style, 3,000-5,000. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,000

    A c1800 Irish George III mahogany hunt table, 10,000-15,000. UPDATE: THIS MADE 16,000

     

    An 18th century Irish mahogany tilt top tea table (600-1,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,400.

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    OBJECTS OF INTEREST TO COLLECTORS AT ADAMS

    Thursday, October 6th, 2011

    Some of the broad selection of objects of interest to collectors at the James Adam Country House Collections sale at Slane Castle, Co. Meath on October 11.  The 700 lot catalogue is on-line. (Click on any image to enlarge).  See other posts on antiquesandartireland.comfor September 30 and October 6.

    A pair of 19th century Famille rose Xian Feng bases of hexagonal form. (3,000-5,000). UPDATE: THIS LOT WAS UNSOLD.

    ÉMILE GALLÉ (1846-1904), A nest of four Art Nouveau rosewood and marquetry tables c1895-1904. Provenance: Estate of the late Henriette and Serge Boissevain, formerly of Ballynatray, Youghal, Co Cork 3,000-5,000. UPDATE: THESE WERE UNSOLD.

    A Ming Dynasty blue and white circular dragon dish, the base with six character mark of Xuande (1426-1435), within a double circle. (2,000-3,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 310,000 (SEE POST FOR OCTOBER 11)

    A set of seven early 18th century Chinese famille verte soup plates. Provenance: Kilruddery House, Bray. 600-800. UPDATE: THESE WERE UNSOLD.

    A mid 18th century Irish dish ring, Dublin, mark of John Gumley. (4,000-6,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 4,200.

    Ino & Bacchus by John Henry Foley (1818-1874). This was Foley's entry for The Royal Academy in 1840. It was commissioned by Lord Ellesmere (for Bridgewater House). 4,000-6,000. UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,200.

    A Chinese blue and white baluster vase. 500-800. UPDATE: THIS MADE 400.

    LHOSTC, 20th CENTURY FRENCH Bronze figure of a Baboon. Estate of the late Henriette and Serge Boissevain, formerly of Ballynatray, Youghal, Co Cork 2,000-3,000. UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,700.

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    WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR MING PORCELAIN SET IN HONG KONG

    Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

    This Ming Vase set a world record for any Ming porcelain at auction in Hong Kong. (Click on image to enlarge).

    THERE was a world auction record for Ming Porcelain at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong today.  This outstanding blue and white Imperial Vase, Ming Dynasty, Yongle Period – just less than 15 inches high – sold for HK$168,660,000 / £14,032,792/ US$21,623,077 after a ten minute bidding battle on the telephone.  It was won  by Nicolas Chow, Sotheby’s International Head of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, against a Sotheby’s Ceramics Specialist based in Beijing.

    Chinese buyers from around the world competed for 32 important pieces from Sotheby’s sale of Part II of Imperial Chinese Porcelains from the Meiyintang Collection which brought HK$560 million /£46.6 million / US$71.8 million in just over an hour.  Ming porcelain (1368-1644) has been less sought after in latter times than Qing (1644-1911) wares, though it is older. Ming can be less decorative than Qing, and has not quite matched the taste of new buyers from mainland China.

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    ZHANG DAQIAN’S SELF-PORTRAIT LEADS RECORD BREAKING AUCTION

    Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

    Zhang Daqian's Self Portrait in the Yellow Mountains. (Click on image to enlarge).

    Fu Baoshi - Boating Under the Willows (click on image to enlarge).

    Zhang Daqian’s Self-Portrait in the Yellow Mountains was the top lot at Sotheby’s sale of fine Chinese paintings in Hong Kong.  It made 5.9 million US dollars.

    The second most expensive lot was Fu Baoshi’s Boating under the Willows which sold for 3.9 million US dollars. The sale brought in 94.7 million US dollars and far exceeded the pre-sale estimate.

     

    In 2010  Zhang Daqian was the fourth highest selling artist in the world.

    See post on antiquesandartireland.com for April 7, 2011.

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    VARIETY OF ARTWORK AT MORGAN O’DRISCOLL CORK SALE

    Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

    FROM Shinnors to Scott, Markey to Maderson  the Morgan O’Driscoll Irish art sale in Cork on October 17 has much variety to offer collectors. There are abstracts and still lifes, landscapes, portraits, beaches, horses and cliffs.  Despite the Yeats effect – the impact of the million euro Yeats’ painting at Adams at the end of September on the market for Irish art – the estimates in this sale represent good value.

    The 285 lot auction is at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Little Island, Cork on October 17  at 6.30 p.m.  Here is a small selection from what is on offer. The entire catalogue is on-line:

    UPDATE:  THE sale brought in 212,000 at hammer.  The top lot was Potato Gatherers by Markey Robinson which made 6,400 and there were good prices for works by Mark O’Neill, Kenneth Webb, John Shinnors and Arthur Maderson.

    Sean Scully (b.1945) 'Horizon I' limited edition print 29/40 (2,000 - 2,500). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 1,900

    John Luke RUA (1906-1975) 'Villiage Scene' watercolour (3,000 - 4,000). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    Sean Keating PRHA HRA HRSA (1889-1978) 'Irish Free State Bacon' offset lithograph poster printed in colour Provenance: Commissioned by the Empire Marketing Board in 1929 as part of a campaign to market Irish produce in Britain. (600 - 900) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    Pauline Bewick RHA (b.1935) 'Yellow Man in Fig Tree' (8,000 -12,000). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    Grace Henry HRHA (1868-1953) 'Old Woman Sewing' (3,000 - 5,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,200

    Brian Ballard RUA (b.1943) 'Tulips and Green Bottle' (1,400-1,800). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 1,100.

    William Scott OBE RA (1913-1989) 'Pears' (2,000 - 2,500). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

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    LURE OF RHINO HORN BRINGS MAGIC TO MEALY’S

    Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

    This Chinese carved antique rhino horn made 75,000 at hammer at Mealy's.

    THE lure of the rhino horn worked its magic in Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny today.    The sale of an antique horn for 75,000 to a Beijing buyer helped Mealy’s to their most successful day ever.  A 19th century massive antique Chinese carved full tip rhonoceros horn “Lotus” libation cup sold for 75,000 on day one of a two day fine and decorative art sale.  A Beijing buyer snapped it up.  The 15.5 inch high horn, described as probably Qing Dynasty, is in the form of a lotus leaf on a curved stem.  Profusely carved, it incorporates typical motifs such as flowers, crabs bats, birds and mythical creatures.

    The luck of the Chinese did not end there.  An Imperial carved laquer Dragon Vase made 65,000 at the same sale. It went to another Beijing buyer.  The seal mark on the vase is inscribed in Chinese and Manchu “Yang Xin Dian” of the Forbidden Palace, Beijing. The Qianlong period red lacquer vase is carved on bronze with four five-clawed dragons in relief against a basket type weave design.  The rim is carved with Greek key, leaf scroll and floral design.  The vase is flanked with two bronze deer head handles, the body is carved with Chinese emblems and symbols on a circular floral carved foot.

    A 19th century tall Chinese full-tip Rhinoceros horn depicting a man and child by a flowering lotus tree with scrolling openwork branches on a lotus carved dome foot made 43,000. With just half of the 1,200 lots on offer sold on day one the sale has already realised around 400,000.  This exceeds the internal estimate by Mealy’s for the entire two day sale.  The auction continues on October 5.

    See post on antiquesandartireland.com for September 26.

    A Chinese full-tip Rhinoceros horn carving made 43,000 at hammer at Mealy's.

    This Dragon Vase made 65,000 at hammer at Mealy's.

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    CHINESE CHAIRS MAKE 69,000 AT IRISH AUCTION

    Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

    The 69,000 euro pair of chairs.

    THIS pair of Chinese chairs, estimated at 1,500-2,500, was the surprise of the sale at Sheppards in Durrow.  They became the most expensive items of Chinese furniture ever sold in Ireland when they made 69,000.  The chairs had been bought in China and brought back to Ireland.

    They are now going back there.  The buyer, who bid on-line live on the internet, lives in Beijing.  They had been described in the catalogue simply as a pair of eighteenth/nineteenth-century Chinese huanghuali hooped backed ceremonial chairs, each with a rattan seat, raised on square legs, joined by stretcher rails.

    See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for September 22.

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    FORTE COLLECTION OF LOWRY’S AT CHRISTIE’S IN NOVEMBER

    Monday, October 3rd, 2011

    THE  highest quality group of works by L.S. Lowry to come to the market will be sold at Christie’s inaugural evening sale of 20th Century British & Irish Art in London next November 16.  The Lord Forte Collection of 14 piantings is being sold by the descendants of Lord Forte (1908-2007).  The Forte family name is synonymous with the world famous hotel brand which was established by the entrepreneurial magnate Charles Forte who created a worldwide empire of restaurants and hotels from virtually nothing.

    UPDATE:

    The inaugural evening sale of 20th Century British & Irish Art including The Lord Forte Collection of Works by L.S. Lowry realised £23,625,000/ $37,233,000/ €27,664,875, selling 92% by value and 72% by lot.

     

    The top lot was Piccadilly Circus, London, 1960, by L.S. Lowry which achieved £5,641,250/ $8,890,610/ €6,605,904, setting the joint highest world record price for the artist at auction and for the category.

    UPDATE:  The sale realized £23,625,000.  The top lot was Piccadilly Circus, London 1960  by L.S. Lowry, which made £5,641,250, a joint highest world record price for the artist at auction.

    L.S. Lowry Saturday Afternoon 1941 (estimate: £1,200,000-1,800,000). Click to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE £2,057,250.

    L.S. Lowry Fun Fair at Daisy Nook 1953 (estimate: £1,500,000-2,000,000). (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS MADE £3,401,250.

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    PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS AND SCULPTURE AT WHYTE’S IRISH ART SALE

    Monday, October 3rd, 2011

    In Dublin Whyte’s will offer a selection of 279 modern, contempory and classical paintings, drawings and sculpture with realistic market reserves on Monday October 10.  There is a classical Yeats from 1949, a collection of fifteen works by Markey Robinson, ten by Joseph William Carey, five by Hughie O’Donoghue and even a collection of paintings relating to the visit of Queen Elizabeth 11 to Ireland in May 2011.

    Here is a selection from the sale:  UPDATE: THE YEATS WAS THE TOP LOT IN A SALE WHICH GROSSED OVER 700,000.

    RESCUE MEN, 1949 by Jack Butler Yeats (60,000-80,000). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE 110,000.

    THE THIRD DAY, c.1950 by Nevill Johnson (8,000-10,000). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.

    SIX MILE WATER by Basil Blackshaw (8,000-10,000). Click to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE 7,500

    LANCASTRIA II, 2000 by Hughie O'Donoghue (6,000-8,000). Click to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.

    VINCENT IT CAN BE THIS, 1984 by Brian Maguire (800-1,000). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE 850.

    Ruth by Daniel O'Neill (25,000-35,000). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE 37,000.

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