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    CHRISTIE’S INTERIORS SALE AT SOUTH KENSINGTON ON AUGUST 23

    Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

    This pair of c1900 Chinese cinnabar lacquer vases are at Christie's Interiors, South Kensington on August 23. The estimate is £600-£1,000. UPDATE: THEY MADE £1,625

    This c1770 George III card table at Christie's Interiors on August 23 is estimated at £1,000-£1,500. UPDATE: THIS MADE £1,250.

    A George II silver cup and cover, Dublin c1750 at Christie's. The maker's mark is indistinct. It is estimated at £2,000-£3,000. UPDATE: THIS MADE £2,500

    Pageant by Eithne Jordan, A.R.H.A. (B. 1954) is estimated at £300-£500 at Christie's. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £668.

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    TRAGIC VISION OF EXPRESSIONIST SCHWARZ-ABRYS AT LIMERICK AUCTION

    Friday, August 12th, 2011
    ‘ Holocaust’ by Leon Schwarz-Abrys 1905-1990 at Limerick Auction Rooms.  UPDATE: This sold for 2,000 at hammer.

    This work by the Hungarian born French based artist Leon Schwarz-Abrys (1905-1990) entitled Holocaust is lot number 183 at the Limerick Auction Rooms sale on Sunday, August 14.  It is unusual for a work by this artist to turn up in Ireland.

    The Expressionist painter and writer , who took part in the Salon des Independents in Paris in 1939, is collected in France and in America.  His life was saved by virtue of the fact that he  was interned at the Psychiatric Hospital of Saint Anne in the Second World War.  He had a studio in Montmarte at 11 rue Nicolet.  His vision, as in this ruined landscape, is often tragic.  He painted many portraits of mentally ill patients.

    Holocaust, an oil on board, is estimated at 2,000-3,000.  The sale features 405 lots including furniture, art and collectibles.

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    EXTRAORDINARY ELIZABETHAN REVIVAL FOUR POSTER AT CHRISTIE’S

    Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

    This Elizabethan Revival oak four poster bed c1920 from the Cowdray Park sale. (Click on image to enlarge)

    A.E.D.G. Stirling Brown (British, fl. 1920-1929) “Starshot” – A polo pony in the grounds at Cowdray. (Click on image to enlarge)

    THIS extraordinary Elizabethan Revival four poster bed features at Christie’s three day sale at Cowdray Park in West Sussex from September 13-15 next.  Made around 1920 it is a copy of the original carved oak bed made for Rothamsted Manor, Hertfordshire.  It was almost certainly commissioned by Weetman Harold Miller Pearson, 2nd Viscount Cowdray, for The Silver Bedroom at Cowdray.

    It is estimated at £10,000-£15,000.

    The image on the right shows the polo pony Starshot.  It is by the British artist A.E.D.G. Stirling Brown.  The estimate on this is £1,000-£1,500.

    The three day sale at Cowdray Park will include more than 1,000 lots with estimates from £100 to £250,000.

    (See antiquesandartireland.com post for August 6)

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    ORPEN SELF-PORTRAIT A HIGHLIGHT AT COWDRAY PARK

    Saturday, August 6th, 2011

    Self-portrait by William Orpen. (Click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE A HAMMER PRICE OF £115,000.

    This self portrait by Sir William Orpen is a highlight of Christie’sthree day auction at Cowdray Park, West Sussex, next month.  Famous for his portraits of others (his portrait of Gardenia St. George with Riding Crop sold for £1.98 million at Sotheby’s Irish sale in 2001) Orpen made a number of self-portraits.   He scowls from the frame in The Dead Ptarmigan in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland.
    Self-portrait seated in black was purchased directly from the artist by Mrs. Gertrude Kinnell as a gift for her sister Annie, 1st Viscountess Cowdray, in 1927. It is estimated at £150,000-250,000. The three day sale at Cowdray Park from September 13-15 will offer over 1,000 lots.  Estimates range from £100 to over £250,000 and the sale is expected to realise more than £4 million. It will include works from Cowdray Park, known as the home of polo, and from Dunecht, the Scottish home of Lord Cowdray’s brother, Charles Pearson. On offer is a diverse selection of furniture, art, tapestries, arms, armour, porcelain, glass, textiles, books, manuscripts, silver, clocks, carpets and Oriental art and porcelain

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    BEST QUARTER RESULTS EVER AT SOTHEBY’S THIS YEAR

    Thursday, August 4th, 2011

    Venetian Guardi achieved an Old Master record. (click on image to enlarge)

    SOTHEBY’S in New York has just announced their best quarter in the company’s history.  Sotheby’s consolidated sales reached a record $3.4 billion in the first half of 2011. For the three and six months to June 30, 2011 net income increased by 48% and  54% to $127.2 million and $129.7 million, respectively, when compared to the prior year. This improvement is principally due to significantly higher auction and private sale commission.

    Competitive pressure to win high value consignments resulted in lower commission margins.  General and administrative expenses increased $7.9 million, or 24%, in  the second quarter and $9.8 million, or 15%, in the first half, largely due to increased consulting fees to develop Sotheby’s strategic initiatives and unfavorable movements in foreign currency exchange rates.

    “This is the best quarter in Sotheby’s history,” said Bill Ruprecht, President and Chief Executive  Officer.  “Great works of art are enormously desirable to collectors from every corner of the world right now….As I look back on these extraordinary six months for our business, the global appeal of art was one of the few constants in a period of  continued economic uncertainty”.  He said that an exciting fall season is already taking shape: “Clients around the world can expect a number of wonderful sales and objects at Sotheby’s this autumn”.
    London sales included tremendous successes.  Contemporary art surpassed the high estimates. Egon Schiele’s Hauser mit bunter Waesche (Vorstadt II) made $40 million, almost double the previous auction record for the artist and  Guardi’s Venice, a View of the Rialto Bridge, Looking North, from the Fondamenta del Carbon, made $42.9 million, the second highest price ever achieved for an Old Master Painting.  (See antiquesandartireland.com post for July 6)

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    VICTORIAN ENGLISH IMAGES AT CHRISTIE’S INTERIORS SALE

    Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

    There is something nostalgic and even retrospective about these two Victorian images created by English artists abroad in the 19th century.  Neither work is expensive.  Each one features at the next Christie’s Interiors sale at South Kensington in London on August 9.

    The work on the left is by Elijah Walton (1832-1880).  No prizes for guessing the title of this pencil watercolour and body colour on paper.  An Alpine Landscape  is estimated at just £400-600.  The other work, which Christie’s have catalogued as English School 1847 is called Cypresses on the Bosphorus, inscribed and dated ‘Cyprepes – on The Bosphorus 1847’ (on the mount).  It is unframed and the lot includes another image of the mouth of the Bosphous at the entrance to the Black Sea by W.B. Urmston.  The estimate is £500-700.  Both images are © Christie’s Images Limited 2011.

    Elijah Walton's Alpine Landscape (click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS MADE £625.

    Cypresses on the Bosphorus (click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE £850


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    MAGNIFICENT PIECES FROM THE SAFRA COLLECTIONS

    Friday, July 29th, 2011
    The French commode and Russian vases pictured below will feature at the four day sale of  the Lily and Edmond J. Safra Collections  at Sotheby’s in New York in October.  Of interest to connoisseurs worldwide the sale offers lots that Sotheby’s say are at the pinnacle of their respective collecting categories.
    The six dedicated sales of the collection from October 18-21 are expected to realise more than $40 million.  A two day sale of the Safra collections at Sotheby’s in 2005 brought in $49 million.
    UPDATE:  The group of French 18th century lacquer furniture headed by the lacquer commode pictured which made $6,914,500 brought in a total of $12.5 million.  The four day sale realised $45,900,064.
    (See antiquesandartireland.com post for July 10, 2011.)

    A pair of Imperial Porcelain Vases, decorated with portraits of Alexandra Fedorovna and her father, King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia, after the portrait by Franz Krüger now in the 1812 Gallery of the Hermitage (est. $1.5/2.5 million). (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THESE WERE UNSOLD.

    A Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Japanese lacquer commode with secretaire en suite, attributed to Adam Weisweiler (est. $5/7 million). (Click on image to enlarge).  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $6,914,500


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    RARE STAMPS FROM STEINBERG COLLECTION AT SOTHEBY’S

    Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

    Australia Kangaroo issue, 1913-14. (est. £15,000-20,000)(click on image to enlarge)

    RARE stamps of distinction will come under the hammer at Sotheby’s next September. The Philatelic Collection of the Northern Irish peer Lord Steinberg is unique as it contains only mint blocks of four or larger multiples from 74 countries of the British Empire. Highlights include Australia with many rare Kangeroo blocks; the British Solomon Islands block; classic Ceylon; Falkland Islands with the 1933 Centenary set in marginal blocks of four; Hong Kong; India; Newfoundland with the unique 1927 De Pinedo airmail block of four and the 1932 DO-X airmail block of four with the surcharge inverted, and a selection of Rhodesian Double Head issues.

    They will be offered in a series of sales on September 6-8 and on September 21.  The three day sale is of British Empire multiples, the sale on September 21 will feature Great Britain exclusively.  Altogether 2,068 blocks will be offered in a sale expected to realise £4 million.

    Lord Steinberg was the grandson of immigrants who turned a single unlicensed betting shop at the back of his father’s Belfast milk counter into the Stanley Leisure Group, a chain of 640 betting outlets and 45 casinos which employed 7,000 people. He became a peer, deputy treasurer of the Conservative Party and president of Lancashire County Cricket Club.  The business was founded in Belfast in 1958, but Steinberg moved to Liverpool in 1977 when he refused to pay protection money to either republican or loyalist paramilitaries. He was shot in 1977 by the Provisional IRA.  Proceeds are for causes and charities associated with Lord Steinberg, who died in 2009. This includes the fund he started with the aim of helping to rebuild Old Trafford, home of Lancashire County Cricket Club.
    UPDATE:  The four day sale brought in £2,648,652, the one day auction comprised of Great Britain Mint Multiples realised £1,134,924.

    Hong Kong 1863-71 at 30 cents. (est. £10,000-12,000) (Click on image to enlarge)

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1840 1d. black. (est. £150,000-250,000)  (click on image to enlarge)  UPDATE: This sold for 

    £180,000

     


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    BEATLES PHOTO MAKES $68,500

    Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

    This image was the top lot.

    THIS 1964 photo of the Beatles on their first US tour was estimated to make $2,000 but in fact sold for $68,500.

    It was taken by a then 18 year old photographer named Mike Mitchell. He had been granted a press pass. But the photographs were never published and he kept 400 negatives and contact sheets in a box for 47 years.

    With encouragement from friends, he showed them to Christie’s.  They selected 46 images. Partly becasue Mitchell as a photographer is relatively unknown Christie’s reckoned they would make $100,000 dollars.

    The collection sold for $362,000.

    See antiquesandartireland.com post for May 26, 2011.

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    EMPEROR’S CIGARETTE BOX GIFT MAKES 3,800 IN BANDON

    Monday, July 25th, 2011

    THIS  lacquer cigarette box was an emperor’s gift.  It had been presented to the late Georgette Ellison by the late Emperor Hirohito of Japan.

    The cigarette box – an unusual feature of the Hegarty’s sale in Bandon on July 24 –  sold for 3,800.  It was bought by a collector in Hong Kong, who heard about the piece through the internet.

    Georgette Ellison was widow of a high ranking US military officer who served in the Far East in the years following the Second World War.

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