The autumn edition of the Decorative Fair at Battersea Park in London from September 29-October 4 features this collage of 19th Century French ephemera, film posters from ‘30s, ‘40s & ‘50s, graphite crayons and household paint. The collage has been placed into an antique frame which has been reworked by Huw Griffiths and is part of the overall artwork. Trained at the Camberwell School of Art his work has been collected by celebrities including Sir Bob Geldof, Noel Gallagher, Jack Vettriano, Dean Josiah Cover, professionally known as Inflo, Taylor Swift, Olga and Alex Polizzi, Andrew Scott, The Hospital Club, Chiltern Firehouse, Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Emma Watson and Bryan Ferry.
With 130 dealers taking part, the Fair presents all buyers with a wealth of objects of distinction and attitude to bring personality and individual flair to every home. Every period of design is offered, from antiquity to the present day for works of art, and from the 16th to 20th century for furniture and decoration.
A selection of gold jewellery at Eddie Moylan’s stand
Gallop over to Limerick racecourse for all the fun of the fair this weekend. The National antiques art and vintage fair takes place today and tomorrow with a selection that includes jewellery, Irish art, vintage fashion, rugs, glass, collectibles, porcelain, glass, brass, foundry items and collectibles like two folk art Rye Pottery cats by Joan de Bethel.
All antique furniture stock at Greene’s antiques of Drogheda is fully restored. Eddie Moylan will bring a collection of gold chains and bracelets and there will be animal paintings by Paul James at the Purple Onion Gallery. Everything from old lanterns to cast iron garden planters is available at Foundry Antiques of Navan while an old cut diamond solitaire and a vintage peridot cluster ring at Courtville antiques are sure to attract attention. This large gathering of dealers and traders from right around Ireland is not to be missed.
Courtville Antiques will show this peridot cluster ring
Edward Elliman Militaria will bring this sweetheart handkerchief to the National Antiques, Art and Vintage fair at Limerick Racecourse on September 5 and 6. Embroidery messages like this were often sent by soldiers during World War I. A pocket in the middle featured a photograph of the soldier. This one dates to 1907 and was made in Egypt, then a protectorate under the British Empire. Several flags are shown. It is inscribed “To My Dear Friend Kate”. Remarkably there is a handwritten address on the back showing that Kate was Mrs. Kate White then resident at Francis St. in Limerick. The identity of the sender is unknown. The two day weekend fair will offer a wide variety of art, antique furniture and collectibles.
The Mayor Gallery, London shows Minding his own Business by Patrick O’Reilly at Treasure House.
From Old Master paintings, antiquities, sculpture and rare books to a prehistoric woolly mammoth head and Galileo’s first drawing of the moon the incredible London season now in full swing continues on its merry way.
London’s flagship Treasure House Fair continues at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea this weekend, it is Classic Week at Christie’s and Sotheby’s offerings next week include Scene in Braemar by Sir Edwin Landseer, a little known sister painting to The Monarch of the Glen.
In Ireland summer online sales of much more affordable art will be held at Whyte’s on Monday June 29 and Morgan O’Driscoll on Tuesday June 30. It all adds up to a very healthy market for art and collectibles.
The trove of masterpieces at Treasure House includes a 25,000 year old woolly mammoth head, drawings by Gallileo, a luxurious dog house made for Marie Antoinette’s favourite pet, a pair of commodes owned by Madame du Pompadour, jewels from the era of Henry VIII and Shakespeare, an exhibition of contemporary British women artists, a show of British Surrealism and a sculpture walk with monumental artworks by Eduardo Paolozzi, Elizabeth Frink, Ron Arad, Nicola Anthony and Patrick O’Reilly.
Sir Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, at Christie’s. UPDATE: THIS MADE £9,670,000 A NEW WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
Christie’s has an estimate of £8 million – £12 million (€9.22 million – €13.83 million) on Sir Thomas Lawrence’s portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. In this portrait painted after Wellington’s defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo the artist succeeded in penetrating Wellington’s aura of heroism to capture the essence of the man. The Old Master’s sale takes place next Tuesday evening (June 30). Sales during Classic Week feature art from antiquity to the 21st century.
Sir Edwin Landseer – Scene in Braemar at Sotheby’s. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £5,946,000 A NEW AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
The estimate for Landseer’s Scene at Braemar at Sotheby’s on the following evening (July 1) is £3 million – £4 million (€3.46 million – €4.61 million). Painted in 1857 the nearly nine foot canvas is a darker sister painting to the iconic and renowned Monarch of the Glen.
Rosaleen Brigid Ganly (1909-2002) – Stargazer Lily at Whyte’s. UPDATE: THIS MADE 150 AT HAMMER
There is a good selection of affordable art at Whyte’s summer online art auction which gets underway at 6 pm next Monday (June 29). The catalogue features 241 lots and includes work by Jack Butler Yeats, Walter Osborne, Estella Solomons, Eva Hamilton, Harry Kernoff, Dan O’Neill, Henry Moore, James Brohan, Liam Treacy, Banksy, Nelson Mandela, Brigid Ganly and many more artists. The most expensively estimated lots are Fishing Boats by James Brohan an d Self Portrait by Eva Hamilton, each estimated at €2,500-€3,500. The Tennis Court, a signed lithograph by Nelson Mandela from his Robben Island series, is estimated at €2,000-€3,000.
Majella O’Neill Collins (b.1964) – Returning home to Sherkin Island at Morgan O’Driscoll. UPDATE: THIS MADE €2,000 AT HAMMER
Morgan O’Driscoll’s off the wall online sale of affordable art is on view in Skibbereen next Monday and Tuesday. It gets underway at 6.30 pm on Tuesday (June 30) and the catalogue is online. An oil on board of Montpellier by Arthur Maderson carries the highest estimate of €4,000-€6,000. There is art by a wide variety of artists including William Crozier, Paul Henry, Damien Hirst, Robert Ballagh, Shepard Fairey, Andy Warhol, Jack B Yeats, Jim Sheehy, George Campbell and John Behan.
Surrealism burst onto the British scene in June 1936 with the International Surrealist Exhibition in London. Ninety years on Treasure House Fair will commemorate that seminal show with a display of forty masterpieces from Southampton City Art Gallery, rarely shown together until now. London’s flagship summer fair is at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea from June 25-30. No less than 60 galleries have convened on the grounds for a fair spanning millennia and continents, from a 25,000 year old woolly mammoth head to the iconic coloured photograph of earth taken from Apollo 8 in 1968. The exhibition on Surrealism will bring together celebrated figures such as Paul Delvaux and Giorgio de Chirico, alongside prominent British Surrealists, many of whom took part in the landmark 1936 exhibition. It will feature Roland Penrose, Paul Nash, John Banting, Sam Haile, Conroy Maddox, Reuben Mednikoff, Desmond Morris and Peter Rose Pulham.
Brian Hurley of Kinsale will bring a selection of porcelain like this appetising Cantonese set to the National Antiques Art and Vintage Fair at Limerick Racecourse this weekend.
The National antique, art and vintage fair at Limerick racecourse, a two day At Home sale by Adam’s and one of the largest ever convent contents sales by Victor Mee make for a very busy upcoming week.
Collectors will find all sorts of everything from rugs to art to porcelain and cloissonné ware to coins and banknotes and antique furniture at Ireland’s biggest fair at Limerick Racecourse at 11 am today (June 6) and tomorrow.
With Tiffany style lamps from Raymond Byrne, porcelain from Brian Hurley, coins and miltaria from Robert Hutchinson, art from Treasures of Athlone and galleries like the Purple Onion, Persian rugs from Annamoe Antiques, variety at Country Mile Antiques and jewellery and vintage items this treasure trove has the capacity to fire the imagination of any collector. There is ample parking, loads of space and price points to suit every pocket.
A c1755 Limerick silver sugar bowl at Adam’s. UPDATE: THIS MADE 8,000 AT HAMMER
A real Limerick rarity, a c1755 silver sugar bowl by Jasper Johns, is the top lot on day one at Adam’s At Home auction on June 9. The two day online only sale is on view in Dublin from today until Tuesday. There is an extensive collection of silver, fine furniture, rugs, decorative interiors and works of art among 610 lots on offer. The auction on June 8 with 255 lots is dedicated to silver and offers an appetising selection of rare Irish provincial silver from Limerick and Cork. The Jasper Johns sugar bowl has an estimate of €8,000-€10,000. Other top lots include a Limerick soup ladle by Samuel Johns (€5,000-€7,000), a pair of serving spoons by Maurice Fitzgerald of Limerick c1780 (€4,500-€5,500), a near pair of c1795 Cork silver sauce boats by John Warner (€4,500-€5,500), a c1790 Cork sugar bowl by John Gibson (€3,000-€5,000), a c1780 Cork silver soup ladle by Carden Terry (€2,500-€3,500) and a c1755 Cork silver loving cup by John Warner (€2,000-€3,000).
Anglo American sunglasses from the 1970’s designed by Lawrence Jenkin at Adams. UPDATE: THESE WERE UNSOLD
Among the more unusual lots at Adam’s on Wednesday are two pairs of highly distinctive vintage Anglo-American sunglasses by Lawrence Jenkin from the 1970’s, Parrots and Liberty Flame (€500-€700). Another timely offering is a pair of 1985 Oliver Goldsmith Tennis Racquets Wimbledon sunglasses (€800-€1,200). Leading lots on the second day of the At Home auction are a 19th century Louis XVI style giltwood suite (€3,000-€5,000), an inlaid Killarney wood jewellery cabinet (€2,000-€3,000), a pair of Italian marquetry and walnut console tables (€2,000-€3,000), a Kashan carpet from central Persia (€2,000-€3,000) and a George IV mahogany dining table on twin quadruped supports (€1,500-€2,500).
The 1700 lot three day sale by Victor Mee of contents from the Convent of Mercy in Newry, other convents and clients next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday is remarkable on many fronts. One of the largest convents sales ever held in Ireland harks back to the 1990’s when convent and friary sales were frequent. Nowadays it is the contents of pubs that feature regularly at sales. The old Ireland is transforming, rapidly, in front of our eyes.
A re-discovered triptych by Sir John Lavery at Victor Mee. UPDATE: THIS MADE 9,000 AT HAMMER
Among top lots in an auction on view in Newry until Monday evening are two remarkable Killarney wood pieces of furniture, a marquetry davenport and a shaped centre table, each estimated at €8,000-€12,000 and a rediscovered painting of The Madonna of the Lakes by Sir John Lavery (€5,000-€10,000). The study for the Lavery triptych in St. Patrick’s Church, Belfast was presented by the artist to Fr. John O’Neill in 1919. It depicts the Madonna, St. Patrick and St. Brigid and is estimated at €5,000-€10,000).
There are six harps made by the Belfast craftsman James McFall in the late 19th/early 20th. centuries. The McFall harp, closely associated with the Irish cultural revival movement, became popular in convent schools and institutions throughout Ireland. The auction offers a large Irish Georgian breakfront bookcase, a wake table measuring ten feet in length and various other lots of Killarney furniture. This is a sale with a strong mix of ecclesiastical pieces, Irish furniture, silver, art and interiors. The online catalogue will reward a thorough examination.
London gallery Agnews will present Salvator Mundi (de Ganay version) at TEFAF, the European Fine Art Fair, which opens today at Maastricht in The Netherlands. One of the world’s most iconic images from the workshops of Leonardo da Vinci dates to c1505-15. When da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi (formerly in the Cook collection) sold at Christie’s New York in 2017 to a Saudi prince for a world record price for any work of art of $450,312,512, a new stratosphere was reached in the art world. Prior to the rediscovery of the Cook Collection Leonardo in 2005, the “de Ganay” Salvator Mundi had most often been considered the best of the versions known. TEFAF Maastricht is a celebration of 7000 years of art history which this year brings together 276 dealers and galleries from 24 countries. It runs until March 19.
Ed Mercer will bring these Art Deco sugar shakers to the National Antiques, Art and Vintage fair at Limerick Racecourse today and tomorrow.
Art by Graham Knuttel, antique rugs, jewellery, silver and Art Deco sugar shakers from the 1930’s and ’40’s are among the pieces awaiting the hunter gatherers who will descend on Limerick Racecourse for the two day national antiques fair this weekend. A Crown Devon Tiger Trees pattern sugar shaker and one from the Clarice Cliffe Bizarre range at Edwin Mercer will be a draw for some collectors. Others will favour vintage fashion, Irish art and antique furniture. This highly popular two day assembly of dealers from all over Ireland offers huge variety in all price ranges at this indoor venue with ample parking.
Jean-Henri Riesener – Roll top desk c1775-1785 at Galerie Léage
Galerie Léage of Paris will bring this roll top desk by Jean-Henri Riesener to TEFAF Maastricht which runs from March 14-19. It is among a remarkable array of historical rediscoveries, exceptional artworks, and museum-quality treasures from a diverse roster of international exhibitors. The belongs to a rare and highly distinguished group of roll top desks executed by Jean-Henri Riesener between circa 1775 and 1785, at the height of his career as ébéniste ordinaire to the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne. Conceived in the direct lineage of the revolutionary model invented by Jean-François Œben and perfected in the celebrated “bureau du roi” completed by Riesener in 1769, this type represents one of the most sophisticated achievements of French cabinetmaking under Louis XVI.
As a cornerstone of the global art world, TEFAF Maastricht presents an unrivalled spectrum of quality and expertise across the fine and decorative arts. The fair is a celebration of 7,000 years of art history, set against the historic and picturesque city of Maastricht. This year, it brings together 276 dealers and galleries from 24 countries across five continents, offering an unparalleled experience for collectors and connoisseurs alike.
Valerie Allen will bring these retro vases to the Cork Antique Fair.
There will be art, equestrian art, porcelain, small antique furniture pieces, vintage fashion and a variety of collectibles at the Cork Antique Fair on March 1.
Dealer Liam Deasy will mark his first fair with a selection of 17th and 18th century Oriental antiques, Eddie Moylan will bring a selection of gold jewellery and the Purple Onion Gallery will offer a selection of art from their Roscommon base. Valerie Allen will offer a selection of appetising small pieces including Clarice Cliff and Country Mile Antiques will offer a selection of vintage and antique furniture, paintings, lighting and collectibles.
The Corrin Events Centre, Fermoy, with easy motorway access and ample parking, has been the location for this fair since April 2025 and it has proved to be a success with fairgoers from far and wide. The fair gets underway at 11 am.
A selection of gold jewellery at Eddie Moylan’s stand
