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    • BONHAMS STRENGTHENS IRISH REPRESENTATION

    February 10th, 2021

    As part of an ongoing programme to strengthen its European
    network of representatives Bonhams in Ireland has appointed Kevin Gaines to work alongside Irish representative Kieran O’Boyle at its Molesworth St., Dublin offices. A practicing sculptor he has more than 20 years experience in the art world, mainly at the Dublin Gallery Jorgensen Fine Art as right hand man to fashion designer and gallery owner Ib Jorgensen, who is retiring. The Dublin office of Bonhams offers valuation services and helps Irish clients access the International art and collectibles markets through Bonham’s global salesrooms.

    Kevin Gaines

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    LAWRENCE WEINER AT KERLIN GALLERY

    February 10th, 2021

    New York based artist Lawrence Weiner celebrates his 79th birthday with an exhibition at Dublin’s Kerlin Gallery. It is available to view online until lockdown restrictions live. The artist defines his sculptural medium simply as ‘language + the material referred to’ and sees himself as a sculptor rather than a conceptualist. The Dublin exhibition is comprised of three sculptures and three works on paper. The sculptures in text, ‘HELD JUST ABOVE THE CURRENT’, ‘IN LINE WITH SOMETHING ELSE’ and ‘PUT WITH THE OTHER THINGS’ are presented in Irish and English and are scaled to fill the length of the walls, creating a new, immersive experience in the gallery space.

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    FROM CAILLEBOTTE TO CALDER AT CHRISTIE’S PARIS

    February 9th, 2021
    Gustave Caillebotte – Petit bras de la Seine près d’Argenteuil (€800,000-1.2 million) UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR €3,620,000

    Gustave Caillebotte’s  Petit bras de la Seine près d’Argenteuil will highlight the sale of an exceptional private collection at Christie’s Paris on March 30. Assembled over four decades by a Parisian collector it focuses on modern and post-war art by artists such as Raoul Dufy, Alexander Calder, Maurice Utrillo, Serge Poliakoff and Sanyu. The collection brings together important international figures from the end of the 19th century to the 1950’s, illustrating the Parisian art scene from Post-Impressionism to the Ecole de Paris and the Seconde Ecole de Paris. Some works from the collection will be included in various owner sales in the first half of 2021.

    UPDATE: THE SALE REALISED €9,323,000 WITH REGISTERED BIDDERS FROM 23 COUNTRIES.

    Alexander Calder – Untitled (1953) (€70,000-100,000). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR €156,250

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    UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN BY YEATS AT CHRISTIE’S

    February 8th, 2021

    Until we Meet Again by Jack B Yeats comes up at Christie’s Modern British Art evening sale in London on March 1. Painted in 1949 it personifies his expressionistic style of the late 1940’s. Characterised by dynamic brush strokes and thick impasto Christie’s say that Yeats’s treatment of the medium can be readily compared to the paintings of his European Expressionist contemporaries, most notably the work of his good friend Oskar Kokoschka. The work is estimated at £500,000-800,000. UPDATE: THIS MADE £598.500

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    COLLECTION OF MRS. HENRY FORD II AT CHRISTIE’S

    February 8th, 2021

    Around 650 lots from the collection of Mrs. Henry Ford II will be offered at sale by Christie’s in New York and London on March 30 and April 20 next. Contents from her Palm Beach home will be offered in New York, the London sale will be composed of lots from her English residences in London’s Eaton Square and Turville Grange in Buckinghamshire. The sales are expected to bring in more than $5 million. Kathleen Fords Impressionist paintings and jewellery were sold at Christie’s in New York last December. Henri de Toulouse Lautrec’s Pierreuse from her collection achieved the top price of $9.062 million at Christie’s live streamed 20th Century Sale: Hong Kong to New York.

    Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) – Pierreuse

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    ONLINE ONLY AUCTION AT WOODWARDS ON FEBRUARY 13

    February 6th, 2021

    An Edwardian dolls house, a marble topped giltwood console table and a Victorian rosewood work table are among the lots at Woodwards online only auction of antiques, fine art and collectibles ON February 13.  This first sale of 2021 by the Cork auctioneers will include three house contents from residences in Douglas and Carrigaline. The selection on offer includes  an inlaid walnut demi lune card table (€500-€800), a William IV breakfast table (€400-€500), a set of Georgian dining chairs (€400-€600), a large Iranian rug (€400-€600), a Georgian Pembroke table (€200-€400), a Coalbrookdale garden seat (€600-€800), a Georgian bureau bookcase (€400-€600), an Edwardian tea table (€200-€400) and a longcase clock by Sterling, Limerick (€400-€600).  The dolls house is estimated at €300-€400, the Louis XV style console table at €400-€600 and the worktable at €300-€400. The auction will include a selection of mirrors, glassware, marine items, porcelian and paintings.

    Edwardian dolls house UPDATE: THIS MADE 310 AT HAMMER

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    TIMED ONLINE AUCTION AT HEGARTY’S OF BANDON

    February 5th, 2021

    One of a pair of Art Deco style club armchairs at Hegarty’s timed online auction which runs from now until February 9. There is art, jewellery, glass and collectibles among more than 340 lots. The armchairs are estimated at 3,000-4,000 and the catalogue for the sale is online. UPDATE: THE ARMCHAIRS SOLD FOR 2,500 AT HAMMER

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    PORTRAIT OF VICKY PHELAN RAISES MONEY FOR HEALTHCARE STAFF

    February 4th, 2021

    A triptych portrait of cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan sold for a hammer price of £46,500 at Sheppards in Durrow today. Sold for Heroes Aid, a newly registered charity dedicated to healthcare workers during the pandemic, it is by the Tullamore based artist Vincent Devine. Vicky Phelan’s narrative is conveyed as past, present and future acted out on Doonbeg beach in the west of Ireland. The left-hand panel is dominated by a powerful assemblage of equine flesh and bone whose forward motion is suddenly halted. The sitter engages directly with the viewer in the centre panel. Events, both joyful and traumatic are rendered symbolically. Her outstretched right hand supports a bird, a young crimson rosella, representative of her daughter; on her left hand, her son as a sapling oak. Beneath her left foot, a colonnade represents a legal triumph while shamrocks close to her heart are emblematic of the continuous support she has received from the people of Ireland and beyond. In the right-hand panel a horse is looking backwards and a flickering candle reminds the viewer of the fragility of life itself.  The portrait was unveiled on the Late Late Show in January.  Vicky Phelan is currently trialling a new cancer drug in the US.

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    SPRING GROUP SHOW ONLINE AT SOLOMON GALLERY DUBLIN

    February 4th, 2021
    EILIS O’CONNELL – CURVE TO EDGE Courtesy of Solomon Fine Art Copyright The Artist

    Curve to Edge is the title of this bronze edition 1/3 by Eilis O’Connell RHA at the online Spring Group Show at Solomon Gallery in Dublin which opens today. It is priced at €55,000. The gallery remains temporarily closed to the public due to lockdown so the show, which runs to March 5, is mounted online. It features paintings, prints and sculpture by gallery and invited artists. The 2021 schedule at Solomon includes upcoming solo shows by Eilis O’Connell RHA, James Hanley RHA, Bridget Flinn and Margo Banks.

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    FIRST EDITION OF JOYCE’S DUBLINERS

    February 4th, 2021

    London booksellers Peter Harrington are offering a first inscribed presentation edition of Dubliners (London: Grant Richards Ltd, 1914) by James Joyce for a cool £195,000. The first edition, first impression, first issue is inscribed by the author on the initial blank: “To Beatrice Randegger James Joyce Trieste 19 June 1914”.

    The official publication date in London was a few days earlier, Monday June 15, but Joyce was in Trieste and did not receive the first of the 120 copies he had agreed to buy from Grant Richards until the Friday of that week. The other very few known presentation copies of the earliest date – to Roberto Preziosi, the Italian who had paid excessive attentions to Nora, and to Moses Dlugacz, his Zionist friend – are dated the same day. Beatrice was one of the daughters of Ettore Richetti, a prominent lawyer and head of the Jewish community in Trieste. 

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