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An 1827 edition of the Old Testament printed in Irish in Dublin and a 19th century ebonised credenza are among the highlights at a sale in Newcastlewest, Co. Limerick on November 11. The auction by O’Donovan and Associates will include a large collection of cinema posters from Latchfords Cinema in Newcastlewest in the 1960’s.
AN EBONISED CREDENZA AT O’DONOVANS
A CINEMA POSTER AT O’DONOVAN’S
Antique furniture, art, Oriental porcelain and collectibles all feature among a strong selection at the At Home sale at James Adam in Dublin at noon on November 12. Nearly 500 lots will come under the hammer. The catalogue is online. Here is a taste of what it contains:
A NEAR PAIR OF CHINESE CELADON GLAZED HU-FORM VASES, Guangxu (1875-1908) (3,000-4,000) UPDATE: THESE MADE 21,000 AT HAMMER
ALFRED DE BREANSKI JUNIOR (1877-1955)
Autumn Morning in Co. Galway (6,000-8,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 6,000 AT HAMMER
A KILLARNEY ARBUTUS AND MARQUETRY INLAID FOLDING TOP CARD TABLE, mid-19th century, (4,000-6,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 6,600 AT HAMMER
A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE IV MAHOGANY FRAMED DINING CHAIRS (2,000-3,000) UPDATE: THESE MADE 3,400 AT HAMMER
A GEORGE II IRISH MAHOGANY BRASS BOUND PLATE BUCKET (500-800) UPDATE: THIS MADE 420 AT HAMMER
STEPHEN MCKENNA – Pyrrhus from 2012, an oil on canvas.
THE life and legacy of artist Stephen McKenna, who died in May, is celebrated in an exhibition at the Kerlin Gallery in Dublin. London born he studied at The Slade in the 1960’s and settled in Carlow in the 1990’s. He was one of the first artists exhibited at Kerlin on its founding in 1988 and he continued to show there for almost 30 years.
This celebratory show brings together a selection of paintings produced within the last decade of his life and includes landscapes, still life, domestic interiors and street scenes. His work is represented in the collections of IMMA, the Tate, London, Berlinische Galeries, the Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels and in many private and public collections. The exhibition will close with a celebratory event as part of the Dublin Gallery weekend on Sunday, November 25.
Nearly 1,000 lots will come under the hammer and the sale will be live on the internet. There is a George III style architectural fire surround and overmantle (2,400-2,600), some heavy cast iron garden benches and statuary, an Irish Georgian style reeded brass bound peat bucket, a Regency chaise longue, a long 19th century Irish pine kitchen table, a Cork silver soup ladle by Carden Terry and Jane Williams, a large Edwardian silver epergne, some jewellery and pistols a a c1920’s-30’s mechanical toy bank by Saalheimer and Strauss of Germany (1,500-2,000). The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:
A monkey band UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,200 AT HAMMER
A portrait of Daniel O’Connell UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,200 AT HAMMER
A bust of Daniel O’Connell UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 3,000
A German made toy mechanical bank from the 1920’s-30’s UPDATE; THIS MADE 8,500 AT HAMMER
Samuel Walsh the winner of the Savills Art Prize 2017
The Clare based artist Samuel Walsh has won the 5,000 euro Savills Art Prize. The winner was announced at Vue 2017, Ireland’s national contemporary art fair at the Royal Hibernian Academy, which runs until Sunday evening.
London born Walsh, whose parents hail from Limerick and Ennis, lived in Limerick for 22 years and is now based in Cloonlara, Co. Clare. “Art is a lifetime vocation, not a weekend job, and this prize is a confirmation that if you keep your focus and, hopefully, keep producing good work, then it will pay off,” the artist said.
Samuel Walsh was born in London. His parents are from Limerick and Ennis. He lived in Limerick for 22 years and is now based in Cloonlara, Co. Clare. He is the founder of the National Collection of Contemporary Drawing which hangs in the Limerick City Gallery of Art. The Aosdana member is closely associated with the beginnings of the Limerick Exhibition of Visual Art and has taught at many institutions including NCAD, the National Gallery of Ireland and the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in France.
Walsh’s work has been acquired by national collections in Hungary, England, Croatia, Italy, and Switzerland and he will exhibit ‘Segment and Apple Drawings’ at the Hunt Museum, Limerick in February-March 2018.
Banksy – Girl with Balloon
Works by Banksy, the world famous anonymous British street artist, are set to wow the crowd at Art Source, the Irish art fair which runs at the RDS from November 10-12. Gormleys Fine Art will show a selection of screen prints including Banksy’s iconic Flying Copper image of a policeman, Girl With A Balloon and his Tesco Tomato Soup can parody on the work by Andy Warhol. “We get Banksy‘s work through an external company and each piece comes with a certificate of proof that it is an original piece by the artist,” Oliver Gormley explained. “There is massive interest in Banksy, his work is very eye catching and people tend to do a double take when they see you have an original by him on display,” he added. Prices for the pieces on display range from 9,000 for Napalm up to 150,000 for Heavy Weaponry.
More than 130 contemporary artists and 20 Irish and international galleries will gather together to showcase painting, sculpture, photography, illustration, prints and ceramic art at Art Source. More than 15,000 people are expected to attend.
Fonsie Mealy will offer a selection of lots from the Yeats family at his auction in Castlecomer on November 14. There are sketchbooks, furniture including the family bureau, silver, musical instruments and personal effects. The sale of around 700 lots will feature items from other estates including Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian furniture, stained glass and modern Irish art. The catalogue is online. Here is a sample.
JOHN BUTLER YEATS – SELF PORTRAIT (10,000-15,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 13,000 AT HAMMER
John Butler Yeats – A fine pen-and- ink Portrait of his son W.B. from 1886 (4,000-6,000) UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 21,000 AT HAMMER
Sir John Lavery, 1856-1941
The Golf Course, North Berwick, oil on canvas, 1922. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £187,500
A 1922 view of the golf course at North Berwick by Sir John Lavery is one of a number of highlights at Sotheby’s Scottish art sale in London on November 21. Lavery painted a series of canvases depicting the famous golf links at North Berwick between 1919 and 1921. Winston Churchill remarked of them: “He shows us sunlight in all its variety – buoyant and bracing, with a touch of grimness on a Scottish golf links…” This one is estimated at £150,000-250,000.
Thomas Podd, Sotheby’s head of Scottish art said: “This is one of our strongest offerings of Scottish art in years. We’re thrilled to be able to present one of the most significant and diverse groups of works available on the market by Joan Eardley, whose recent retrospective at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art was a clear indication of how highly revered this visionary artist has become. The Scottish Colourists are headlined by truly great examples by all four proponents, including one of the best still lifes ever painted by George Leslie Hunter. An exciting post-war section includes an absolute masterpiece by Anne Redpath, a top notch example of one of Robin Philipson’s paintings of red poppies, and a fantastic group of works by John Bellany from the 1970s. Last, but not least, one of John Lavery’s coveted golf course scenes make a welcome appearance, following the success of a painting from the same series in our sale last year”.
Morgan O’Driscoll’s current online sale of Irish art features 350 varied lots of affordable Irish and internatonal art. It runs until the evening of Monday November 6. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:
GRAHAM SUTHERLAND (1903-1980) – INSECT (2/35) (300-500) UPDATE: THIS MADE 280 AT HAMMER
JOHN KINGERLEE (B.1936) – HEAD (400-600) UPDATE: THIS MADE 500 AT HAMMER
MARKEY ROBINSON (1918-1999) – THE OLD MILL (1,000-1,500) UPDATE: THIS MADD 1,700S AT HAMMER
MARK O’NEILL (B.1963) – COTTAGE SPREAD (1,500-2,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,900 AT HAMMER
C.R.W. Nevinson – A Dawn
An iconic depiction of French soldiers in 1914 by the leading British war artist C.R.W. Nevinson – A Dawn – comes up at Sotheby’s Modern and Post War sale in London on November 21. It is from a landmark moment in the career of Nevinson, who is widely considered the definitive British artist of the First World War.
The painting encapsulates the best of his Vorticist style of the period between 1914 and 1916. It shows a seething mass of soldiers reduced to mechanical forms. First exhibited at Nevinson’s acclaimed 1916 solo exhibition at the prestigious Leicester Galleries, attended by the likes of Sir Winston Churchill and G. Bernard Shaw, it is one of very few paintings from this landmark show still in private hands.
Simon Hucker, Senior Specialist in Modern & Post-War British Art, said:
“Nevinson’s A Dawn ranks alongside the Tate’s La Mitrailleuse and the Imperial War Museum’s French Troops Resting as the very best of the artist’s war paintings, works that define our vision of the Great War. With the majority of Nevinson’s most important works in major museums, the term ‘museum-quality’ can be applied with total confidence to this profoundly powerful painting.”
“It happened that I was the first artist to paint war pictures without pageantry, without glory, and without the over-coloured heroic that made up the tradition of all war paintings up to this time…. No man saw pageantry in the trenches.” (Nevinson). The work is estimated at £700,000-£1 million.
