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    • SCULLY, YEATS, LAVERY, LE BROCQUY AT WHYTE’S

    February 24th, 2018

    Nearly 200 works of Irish and international art will come under the hammer  at Whytes  sale at the RDS, Dublin on February 26.  The most expensively estimated lot is a west of Ireland landscape by Paul Henry, thought to be an Achill scene (80,000-120.000).  Another highlight is le Brocquy’s homage to the poet John Montague. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for February 19, 2018)

    UPDATE: Over 80% of lots were sold and the sale realised 820,000.

    NIGHT, 2005 SEAN SCULLY  UPDATE: THIS MADE 5,000 AT HAMMER

    WINTER IN GALWAY, FROM LADY GREGORY’S HOUSE, COOLE PARK, 1944 JACK BUTLER YEATS UPDATE: THIS AMDE 40,000 AT HAMMER

    KAID MACLEANS’ CAMP. A WET DAY SIR JOHN LAVERY RA RSA RHA  UPDATE: THIS MADE 15,000 AT HAMMER

    ROOFTOPS, 1963 STELLA STEYN  UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,000 AT HAMMER

    William Scott’s First Triangles from a poem for Alexander  UPDATE: THIS MADE 900 AT HAMMER

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    AN AT HOME SALE AT JAMES ADAM IN DUBLIN

    February 22nd, 2018

    Irish Regency convex mirror UPDATE: THIS MADE 5,200 AT HAMMER

    More than 500 lots will come under the hammer at the James Adam At Home sale in Dublin on February 25.  Much of the lots on offer come from a Fitzwilliam Place townhouse developed in the 1980’s with furnishing supplied by some of Dublin’s leading antique dealers Chantal O’Sullivan and Gerald Kenyon.  Highlights include an Irish Regency giltwood convex mirror (4,000), a console table with white marble top (5,000), a set of 18 Georgian roll back dining chairs (7,000) and a Wiliam IV extending dining table (6,000).  There is a George III rent table and a French Empire overmantle and among the silver is a c1775 two handled cup and cover by the Cork maker Carden Terry.

    AFTER ANTONIO CANOVA
    Venus and Mars Carrara marble (3,000-5,000)  UPDATE; THIS MADE 16,000 AT HAMMER

    GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND SATINWOOD INLAID RENT TABLE (4,000-6,000)  UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,800 AT HAMMER

    A set of 18 George IV dining chairs (7,000-10,000)  UPDATE: THESE MADE 15,000 AT HAMMER

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    MASSIVE INTERIORS SALE AT THE HERITAGE, KILLENARD

    February 20th, 2018
    More than 3000 interiors lots will come under the hammer at a two day sale by Victor Mee Auctioneers in partnerhip with Niall Mullen at The Heritage Hotel, Killenard, Co. Laois on March 5 and 6.  The sale will feature contents from iconic Dublin nightspots Howl at the Moon and the Residence Club. It also features documentation from Clerys including the original cheques from the sale of shares in the historic department store building.  There is also refurbished furniture from the Shelbourne Hotel and more than 200 items of Irish folk and pub memorabilia including a restored original Irish phone box from Westmeath.

    “There is a gorgeously opulent and eclectic look to the pieces from Howl at the Moon,” Niall Mullen said.  The nightclub had a major fit out in 2001 by publican Liam O’Dwyer. “Howl’s spectacular five-star furnishings include a two metre by two metre French chandelier, four full-size alabaster pillars, original works by artist Patrick O’Reilly, life-size bronze statues, two full-size bronze doors, a grand piano and a unique collection of Irish whiskey” he said.

    “The Clerys collection is of immense interest, as along with Denis Guiney’s original £241,000 cheque to purchase the entire share capital of Clery and Company in 1941, it includes old photographs, office journals and store record books going back 150 years. There is a beautiful selection of original refurbished furniture from the Shelbourne Hotel, and among the 150 pieces are some striking French bronze chandeliers. We also have the entire contents of the renowned private members club Residence, including the bars, mirrors, glassware and every item of their classic, yet contemporary, styled furniture”.

    Items from the interior of the Residence Club in Dublin

    A two metre tall chandelier from Howl At The Moon
    Pic: Paul Sherwood

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    QUINNIPIAC’S GREAT HUNGER COLLECTION COMING TO IRELAND

    February 19th, 2018

    The Victim by Rowan Gillespie.

    In 2018, Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University will send 50 pieces of art from its acclaimed collection home to Ireland for eight months. The works will go to The Coach House at Dublin Castle and West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen for the exhibition Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger.

    This major undertaking aims to strengthen the deep cultural connection between Ireland and its diaspora by showcasing the world’s largest collection of Great Hunger-related art never before exhibited on Irish soil.

    Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum Ryan Mahoney said: “The exhibition is coming home for the first time ever. “We’re bringing our collection home to Ireland where it needs to be seen after five years of having it on display here in the US. In that time, we’ve seen tens of thousands of people coming through our doors.”

    Many of the works are graphic, depicting the horrors of the Great Famine. Some focus on the plight of those who travelled on coffin ships from Ireland to the US.

    The show will be at Dublin Castle from March to June and at the West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen from July to October.  It will be on display at the Glassworks in Derry from January to March next year.

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    IRISH AND INTERNATIONAL ART AT WHYTE’S

    February 19th, 2018

    Reaching. Homage to John Montague by Louis le Brocquy  UPDATE: THIS MADE 80,000 AT HAMMER

    Louis le Brocquy’s homage to the poet John Montague is a highlight of Whyte’s evening sale of Irish and International Art in Dublin on February 26.  The strikingly modern work entitled Reaching. Homage to John Montague is constructed in six canvasses and is presented, as the artist intended, in its original frame.  The economic use of paint echoes the work of Francis Bacon while the preoccupation with the head and spirit of the sitter resonates with le Brocquy’s later work. It is estimated at 40,000-60,000.

    The most expensively estimated lot among 191 works on offer is Paul Henry’s Landscape, West of Ireland (80,000-120,000). It is thought to be an Achill scene.  The Aran Island Turf Boat by Sean Keating is estimated at 50,000-70,000) and a painting of old men bathing by Jack B. Yeats is estimated at 40,000-60,000.  Another Yeats, Winter in Galway from Lady Gregory’s House, Coole Park, 1944 is estimated at 25,000-35,000.
    Among the international works are two limited edition engravings by Salvador Dali of Dante’s Divine Comedy, a Baghdad Street Scene by Iraqi artist Hafidh Al-Droubi, Kissing You, a limited edition by Tracey Emin, a print and concrete relief by Banksy and bronzes by  Charles Robinson Sykes and Ernest Rancoulet.
    Lot 120, An Important Scrapbook of Art and Music compiled by Abigail Cohen in London in the 1830’s, has contributions from Daniel O’Connell, Samuel Love and the composers Michael William Balfe and George Alexander Osborne. It guides at 15,000-20,000.  A collection of 24 hand coloured aquatints of Dublin views by James Malton is estimated at 8,000-10,000.

    There is a wide cross section of Irish artists including Mildred Anne Butler, Arthur Maderson, Alicia Boyle, Elizabeth Cope, Percy French, Markey Robinson, Rowland Hill,  John Kingerlee, John Phillip Murray, Basil Blackshaw, Michael Cullen, Tony O’Malley, Robert Ballagh, Sean Scully, Patrick Scott and William Scott.

    Landscape West of Ireland (1915-1918) by Paul Henry  UPDATE: THIS MADE 80,000 AT HAMMER

    The Divine Comedy, Paradise, Canto 18, Beatrice’s Splendour by Salvador Dali UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

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    BRITAIN’S MOST EXPENSIVE LIVING ARTIST AT SOTHEBY’S

    February 16th, 2018

    Peter Doig, The Architect’s Home in the Ravine (1991

    The Architect’s home in the Ravine by Britain’s most expensive living artist Peter Doig will headline Sotheby’s Contemporary Art evening auction in London on March 7.  Painted in 1991 and estimated at £14-18 million it last changed hands at Christie’s in London two years ago when it sold for £11,282,500.   In 1991, just a year after graduating from his Master’s degree at Chelsea, Doig was awarded the highly prestigious Whitechapel Artist’s award.

    This was  one of only four works the artist chose to be included in the subsequent show at the Whitechapel Gallery. Others include Iron Hill (1991) which became the first work by the artist to sell for over £1 million at Sotheby’s auction in 2006, and Rosedale (1991) which established a new $28.8 million auction record for any living British artist last year.   The Architect’s Home in the Ravine refers to a building remembered from the artist’s childhood in Canada – the home of Eberhard Zeidler, which is situated in the wealthy Toronto suburb of Rosedale.

    Three of the four highest prices for the artist at auction have been set in the past 12 months.

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for February 11, 2016)

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    A 20 PENCE COIN FOR 10,000 EURO

    February 16th, 2018

    An Irish twenty pence coin dated 1985, said to be worth 10,000, will be on show this weekend at a coin fair at the Talbot Hotel in Dublin this weekend.  Collectors and dealers from around Ireland and the UK are scheduled to attend the fair.  Another object of interest on display is a ten pounds note, issued in Dublin by the Northern Bank in 1929, valued at 20,000.

    The show is organised by Delmas Parker, a s Dallas based pecialist dealer in Irish coins and banknotes.  Opening times are from 11 am to 5 pm on Saturday and Sunday.

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    EMIL NOLDE AT NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND

    February 15th, 2018

    A major exhibition by pioneering German Expressionist painter Emil Nolde (1867-1956) with 120 paintings, drawings, watercolours and prints has just opened at the National Gallery of Ireland.  Emil Nolde: Colour is Life is a collaboration between the National Gallery of Ireland, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Emil Nolde Foundation in Seebüll, the artist’s former home in North Germany.

    It spans Nolde’s career from his early atmospheric paintings of his homeland right through to the intensely coloured oils, to his so-called ‘unpainted pictures’ – works done on small pieces of paper during the Third Reich, when Nolde was branded a ‘degenerate’ artist and forbidden to work as a professional artist. The works on show also include Nolde’s famous flower and garden paintings, and his extraordinary religious paintings, with their mix of spirituality and eroticism.

    The exhibition is grouped into themes: Idea of Home; the Metropolis; Conflict and Ecstasy; the South Seas and the Exotic; and Sea and Garden pictures.  Over forty oil paintings and fifty works on paper will be shown alongside examples of Nolde’s work from the Gallery’s own collection. The co-curators are National Gallery of Ireland’s Director Sean Rainbird; and Curator of European Art 1850-1950 Janet McLean – along with Keith Hartley, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, who will curate the exhibition when it moves to Edinburgh next July.  It continues in Dublin until June 10.

    Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
    Large Poppies (Red, Red, Red), 1942 © Nolde Stiftung Seebül

    Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
    Candle Dancers, 1912 © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll

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    LARGE SCALE LUCIO FONTANA AT CHRISTIE’S

    February 12th, 2018

    Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, Attese  UPDATE: THIS MADE £8.6 MILLION

    Masterpieces by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri and Thomas Schütte from a private European collection will feature at Christie’s Post War and Contemporary Art evening sale in London on March 6.   The group will be led by Lucio Fontana’s  Concetto Spaziale, Attese (1965) which is  estimated at £8-12 million.   The two-metre long white canvas is cut with 24 of Fontana’s iconic vertical slashes, the greatest number he ever committed to a large-scale work. To add a further dimension to the painting Fontana enshrouded it in a highly reflective black lacquer.

    Additional highlights include Alberto Burri’s Ferro T (1959) (£3-5 million)  a patchwork forged from jagged panes of soldered metal, weathered using fire and the process of oxidation.  This is from Burri’s celebrated series of 12 Ferri (‘Irons’), nine of which are housed in museum collections internationally. Thomas Schütte’s Bronzefrau Nr. 7 (2002) (£2-3 million) offers a powerful critique of monumental sculpture: created from bronze and Cor-Ten steel it both mines and undermines classical and Renaissance traditions. Dan Flavin, Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter are also represented in the collection.

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    ALL ABOUT RUGS AT SHEPPARDS

    February 10th, 2018
    Tabriz carpets from Northwest Persia, Aubusson carpets from France, a Mughal inspired carpet from Agra in India and a Donegal design carpet  after Alexander Morton and Company will kick off Sheppards sale of carpets, rugs and runners in Durrow on February 13. Estimates for the above mentioned prizes from an auction of 115 lots range from 2,500 to 6,000.  On offer is a range of floor coverings from the exotic East to the Dun Emer Guild by way of Aubusson and Donegal.
    Lot 11, a Donegal carpet after the English architect,  furniture and textile designer C F A Voysey, is one of a number of Donegal examples on offer and is estimated at 6,000-8,000.
    The most expensively estimated Irish carpet  – at 8,000-12,000 – is a late 20th century Dun Emer Guild Phoenix Design wool carpet measuring 12′ x 9′.  The Dun Emer Guild was founded by Lily and Elizabeth Yeats and Evelyn Gleeson in 1902 and was influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement.

    The auction features carpets, rugs, kilims and runners from all over Persia, the southeast Caucasus and even Peking.  Many of these are from locations that were far more familiar to travellers of an earlier generation than they are now.  Thankfully this is beginning the change and the courtly delights of Persia are once again beginning to open up to western travellers.

    A late 20th century bespoke Dun Emer Phoenix design carpet :UPDATE THIS MADE 6,600 AT HAMMER

    A c1900 Heriz runner:  UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,600 AT HAMMER

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