Eric Clapton’s guitar, Kurt Cobain’s handwritten setlists and Whitney Houston’s multi-print Versace jacket are among the star-powered music memorabilia at Julien’s Auctions Icons and Idols live and online sale from the Hard Rock Cafe, New York on November 19 and 20. Clapton’s 1968 Martin D-45 acoustic instrument is reckoned to $300,000 to $500,000. According to Martin Nolan of Julien’s this estimate is probably conservative.
Nearly 1,000 sensational artefacts and memorabilia owned and used by some of the world’s legendary music artists of all-time including The Beatles, Guns N’ Roses, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Robert Plant, Elvis Presley, Trent Reznor, Keith Richards, Eddie Van Halen, U2, and others will be offered.
ERIC CLAPTON’S 1968 Martin D-45 Guitar. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $625,000 IN A SALE THAT BROUGHT IN NEARLY $5 MILLION
Central Bank of Ireland, £20, 6 August 1943, serial number 01X 066040, War Code A, Brennan and McElligott signatures. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £4,200
This fine and very rare £20 Lady Lavery note from the Central Bank of Ireland with a War Code from 1943 comes up at Dix Noonan Webb in London on November 25 with an estimate of £4,000-£5,000. It is a highlight from the collection of the late Gus Mac Amhlaigh of Dublin. Most of his collection is Irish and will be auctioned in several parts over the next year. It also contains groups from Scotland and the Isle of Man. Lots 196 to 334 in the November sale are from his collection. Gus Mac Amhlaigh began collecting banknotes in the early 1970’s. A civil servant he moved from the Department of the Environment to the Custom House Docks Development Authority. He was a key figure in formulating the first masterplan for the Dublin Docklands, primarily focused the International Financial Services Centre. He was responsible for the largest ever regeneration scheme in the history of the State. More than 21,000 people are now employed in the docklands and a further 22,000 people live in the area. He left the Docklands Authority in 1999 and became ceo of the Irish Pension Unit Trust, one of the largest property funds in the country. He worked there until his retirement in 2007 and then joined the board of directors of the commercial estate agents, Bannon Commercial.
The jewellery collection of the late Marie Conway comes up online at an evening sale at Sheppards in Durrow on November 18. Marie who passed away in 2009, was a well- known face, whose auburn hair, flamboyant style of dress, unusual jewellery and sense of humour, singled her out at auctions and antique fares around Munster and beyond for decades. Lot on offer range from a diamond tennis bracelet to a white gold and peridot diamond drop pendant to a three stone diamond ring. The catalogue is online and there will be viewing on November 17 and 18.
AN 18 CARAT WHITE GOLD EMERALD AND DIAMOND RING. UPDATE: THIS MADE €1,500 AT HAMMER
An unpublished archive that celebrates the “The Gorgeous Wrecks” – a group of over-military age men who defended Dublin’s Beggars Bush Barracks’ during the Easter Rising of 1916 comes up at Dix Noonan Webb in London on November 10. Lot 232 includes the inter-War C.B.E. (Civil), 1916 ‘Easter Rising – Defence of Beggars Bush Barracks’ D.S.O., Great War O.B.E. (Military) group of eight awarded to Major and Adjutant George Arthur Harris of Dublin University Officer Training Corps, Territorial Force, who led his poorly armed column of above age military reservists in a week long defence of Beggars Bush Barracks during the 1916 Rising. It will be sold with an important archive of related material including the recipient’s unpublished diary of the Defence, written during the siege on ‘Beggars Bush, Dublin’ headed writing paper. As he commented “The whole business was horrible, as one never knew who was for or against you. An innocent looking civilian would walk past the barracks, see our position and then go to a house and snipe. The fighting in France I think was infinitely preferable to this and in this others concur.” The lot is estimated to fetch £8,000-12,000. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £18,000
This Georgian mahogany hunt table is lot 69 at Mullen’s Classic and Contemporary Interiors online sale which ends from 6 pm on November 7. The estimate is €500-700. There are 602 lots on the catalogue and they can all be found on Easy Live Auctions.UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,550 AT HAMMER
JEAN ROYERE (1883-1950) Paire de fauteuils Boule dits Ours Polaire, vers 1947
These Boules chairs by Jean Royere achieved €1,292,000 at Christie’s Paris sale of he Collection Daniel Lebard : Through the Prism of Modernity on November 3. The world record price was achieved over an estimate of 300,000-500,000. The auction realised a total of €31,607,000, almost three times the presale estimate. The collection of design, photography and contemporary art was sold 100% by value and 97% by lot. With registered bidders from 32 countries the sale achieved new world auction records for 24 artists including Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Paulin and Takis.
The Table de bibliotheque eclairante created by Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé and Andre Salomon for the Maison de la Médecine in 1951 made €1,016,000 ; the Tête à lumière, a remarkable ceramic lamp by André Borderie which made €325,000, thirteen times its presale estimate ; the Papillon chair by Matthieu Matégot sold for €206,250, five times its presale estimate and the Elysée pair of armchairs by Pierre Paulin quadrupled their estimate and made €200,000. New world auction records were also set for Bertrand Lavier, Michel Buffet, Edouard Wilfred Buquet, Daniel Firman, Morten Løbner Espersen, Hans Luckhardt, André Lurcat, Serge Mouille, Kirstin McKirdy, Barbara Nanning, Nicolas Schöffer, Huge Perignem, Philippe Pradalié, Maurice Pré, Ron Nagle, Bente Skjöttgaard, Roger Tallon, Valérie Belin, Vera Lutter and Raphaël de Villers. The 51 lots by Jean Prouvé made €11,195,000.
THIS large Chinese Qing jade vase and cover with an estimate of 4,000-6,000 made a hammer price of 33,000 at the first day of Sheppards Barrettstown House online sale today. Pale celadon to white in colour and of rectangular baluster for it has raised interlaced decoration to the upper register. It is furnished with elephant scroll ring handles and raised on a moulded foot. The auction continues on November 3.
Collectors will be spoiled for choice at two sales in Cork on November 6. The venerable city firms of Marshs and Woodwards will hold online auctions on the same day. The Marshs sale is derived mainly from the estate of the late Professor David O’Mahony. The firm has already sold his house at The Hollies, Sunday’s Well. There is Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian furniture, paintings, watercolours, clocks, porcelain, Waterford Glass, gilt mirrors and sets of Cork 11-bar chairs. Prime lots include a Louis XV style satinwood and kingwood bureau plat, a Georgian breakfront serving table with brass rail, a Georgian Cork clock by Jas Upington and a Georgian inlaid and satinwood fold over card table Each of these lots is estimated at €1,500-€2,000. Coming in at a slightly lower estimate of €1,000-€1,500 are two sets of 11-bar and 9-bar Cork chairs, a Georgian tallboy and a Regency gilt wall mirror. A 19th century Anglo-Indian rosewood console table has an estimate of €800-€1,000.
House contents from Mallow and Castlegregory feature at the Woodwards sale. A large Nostell Priory partners desk is estimated at €1,500-€2,500. A pair of leather wingback library chairs, a Carlton House style desk, a Regency rosewood sofa table and a French inlaid longcase clock are all estimated at €1,000-€1,500. There will be interest in a Killarney inlaid arbutus teapoy (€500-€800) and a Georgian walnut davenport. Among the other lots of antique furniture are a George III bureau, a Georgian walnut knee hole desk, a Georgian round table with birdcage movement, a French bureau plat and an Edwardian chest on chest.
A secretaire a abbatant (fall front desk) at Woodwards. UPDATE: THIS MADE 520 AT HAMMER
Silver dish ring at Matthews. UPDATE: THIS MADE 920 AT HAMMER
This antique Irish silver dish ring comes up as lot 78 at Matthews two day live online auction from Kells, Co. Meath with jewellery silver, gold and collectibles on November 2 and antiques and collectibles on November 3. It is estimated at 1,000-1,500. Lots 1-571 will be sold from 6 pm on November 2 and lots lots 601-1126 come up at 2 pm on November 3.
JIM DINE – TWO RED BOOTS ON A BLACK GROUND UPDATE: THIS MADE 8,0O0 AT HAMMER
In Dublin there is viewing from 1 pm to 5 pm today and tomorrow, from 10 am to 5 pm on Monday and from 10 am to noon on Tuesday for the James Adam Mid-Century Modern sale which kicks off online at 2 pm on November 2. The centrepiece of this sale is Lilium II by Joseph Walsh. Too large for the auction room and too pricey for most of us it will be on view instead at the Throne Room in Dublin Castle. This marvellous intricate ash piece is estimated at €100,000-€150,000. The AdamsLive platform can be used for bidding at a sale which includes a good selection of mid 20th Century furniture by well known Italian and Danish makers, modern and contemporary paintings, lamps, mirrors, armchairs, desks and tables.
JOSEPH WALSH (B.1979) Lilium I, 2014. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
