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    • A SALE FOR ECLECTIC COLLECTORS AT WHYTE’S

    May 2nd, 2017

    With everything from a 1000 BC North American polished stone axe head and a Victorian fairground travelling roulette wheel to election, travel and film posters,  sporting memorabilia, coins, banknotes,  books and maps the Eclectic Collector sale at Whyte’s in Dublin on May 6 offers something for a wide variety of collectors.  The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:

    Joan Blaeu – Map of Leinster (150-200)  UPDATE: THIS MADE 420 AT HAMMER

    A c1903 Land of Tirconnel poster for the Donegal Railway (300-500) UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,900 AT HAMMER

    A Victorian fairground roulette wheel (400-600)  UPDATE: THIS MADE 480 AT HAMMER

    A North American polished stone axe head dating to 1000 BC (700-1,000)  UPDATE: THIS MADE 680 AT HAMMER

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    BALLYEDMOND COLLECTION AT SOTHEBY’S

    May 1st, 2017

    The collection of Edward Haughey Lord Ballyedmond (1944-2014), who died in a helicopter crash, will come up at Sotheby’s in London on May 23-24. The collection stands as testament to Lord Ballyedmond’s unerring eye as a collector, displaying a lifelong passion for the finest art and antiques, with a rare attention to detail. Around 700 objects mostly drawn from a magnificent townhouse on London’s Belgrave Square, described as the “Downton Abbey of our times” will come under the hammer. This extraordinary London home formed the backdrop to life at the highest level of British society. 

    Born in Kilcurry, County Louth, Ireland, Lord Ballyedmond rose from humble beginnings to make his fortune founding and steering to extraordinary success the Norbrook Group, a pharmaceutical company based in Newry, Northern Ireland. Equally influential in the world of politics as he was in business, Lord Ballyedmond is renowned as only the second person in history – after the Marquess of Lansdowne in the 1920s – to have sat in the upper houses of both the British and Irish parliaments. His standing was such that the United States government was amongst the many to pay tribute to his remarkable accomplishments: “His achievements brought significant employment to Northern Ireland and other places around the world, while his philanthropic endeavours helped improve the quality of life of countless others.” 

    Inspired by the Regency and the neoclassical designs of British architect, Robert Adam and entranced by the salons of 18th-century London, Lord Ballyedmond transformed a once dormant property on one of London’s most prestigious squares into a modern evocation of a great Georgian town house, specifically designed to entertain on an ambassadorial scale. His collection  was the fruit of selective and judicious collecting, both at auction and from dealers, with an unmatched attention to the finest of details. Paintings, tapestries, porcelain, silver and furniture were all thoughtfully put together to create something which would enthrall and delight visitors to Belgrave Square.

    The Ballyedmond Collection Part II: Gentlemen’s Accessories Online, an online sale of gentlemen’s dressing accessories, will open on May 23. Lord Ballyedmond was an elegant man and discerning collector; cufflinks, tie-pins and watches by great names including Cartier, Van Cleef and Arpels, Boucheron and Tiffany & Co. adorn this online offering with estimates ranging from £150 to £6,000.

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    THE COMPLETE WORKS OF MAPMAKER JOHN SPEED

    May 1st, 2017

    The complete works of mapmaker John Speed come up at Sotheby’s in London on May 9. Dating to the 17th century the collection includes the first detailed map to show the provinces of Ireland, the first set of county maps and  the first comprehensive set of English town plans.  The 96 hand coloured maps are expected to realised £100,000-150,000 at Sotheby’s sale of Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History. Speeds The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain was first published in 1612.  His Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World was first produced in 1627.

    At the same sale two rare wall maps of Australia and Asia by Joan Blaeu (1596-1673) rediscovered in a private residence in Italy are together expected to make more than £250,000. Blaeu was cartographer to the Dutch East India Company.

    John Speed – The Kingdome of Ireland

    John Speed – The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland

    Joan Blaeu – Archipelagus orientalis sive Asiaticus

    Joan Blaeu – Archipelagus orientalis sive Asiaticus

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    A SIDE TABLE IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM MOORE

    May 1st, 2017
    An 18th century Irish half moon side table in the manner of William Moore will be a furniture highlight at Hegarty’s evening sale in Bandon, Co. Cork on May 9.  The 300 lot auction will feature contents from The Glebe House at Nohoval which dates to 1816.  A pair of c1810 Regency Irish card tables is another highlight.  Both lots are estimated at 6,000-10,000.
    An early Victorian long case clock is labelled Patterson of Fermy and is estimated at 2,000-4,000.

    There is some English oak furniture including a Queen Anne Welsh dresser (500-1,000), a large hall bench (500-1,000) and a Jacobean style mirror backed pedestal sideboard (500-1,000). Collectibles include a lady’s silver vanity set with Birmingham marks to around 1899-1900.  Artists in the sale include Martin Finnin, Graham Knuttel and Arthur Maderson.

    18th century Irish side table in the manner of William Moore  UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,700 AT HAMMER

    A Queen Anne Welsh dresser.

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    CHAMPION RED SETTER WITH LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS

    May 1st, 2017

    Garryowen champions collar.  UPDATE: THIS MADE 6,600 AT HAMMER

    Garryowen was far from your average red setter.  The champions collar of an animal who was mentioned in James Joyces’ Ulysses, accorded an obituary in the Chicago Tribune and whose portrait is in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland, comes up at the eclectic collector sale at Whyte’s on Molesworth St. in Dublin on May 6.  Suspended with engraved medals representing each of his 37 firsts the collar is estimated at 800-1,200.

    Owned by James Giltrap, Joyce’s uncle, Garryowen began winning shows in the 1880’s.  When he won the Grand Prix de Honeur at the Belgian Kennel Club and Limerick tobacco manufacturers the Spillanes named a new tobacco product Garryowen as a “Setter of quality”. Wearing his champions collar Garryowen appeared on enamel signs throughout the country. Three versions of the sign are in the sale with estimate of 150-400.

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    RARE CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER DISH AT SOTHEBY’S

    April 28th, 2017

    A Large Carved Cinnabar Lacquer Dish Late Yuan/Early Ming Dynasty   UPDATE: THIS MADE £1.5 MILLION

    A rare and large carved cinnabar lacquer dish from the late Yuan/early Ming period will lead Sotheby’s sale of Important Chinese Art in London on May 10. It is one of the finest examples from the period when lacquer carving in China experienced its peak. According to Sotheby’s the sensitive, naturalistic rendering of the flowers, the complexity and harmony of the interwoven flower design, the craftsmanship and monumental dimensions are hard to surpass. The century or so from the late Yuan (1279-1368) to the early Ming dynasty (1368-1644) witnessed the evolution of the art of carved lacquer ware in south China from a decorative craft to a branch of imperially produced artefacts of the highest order, in parallel to a similar development of Chinese blue-and- white porcelain. Lacquer ware of this period is rarer than contemporary porcelain.  It is estimated at £400,000-600,000.

    The sale will showcase a selection of notable Chinese ceramics and works of art across the disciplines of imperial porcelain, lacquer, jade and Buddhist sculpture.

    A white jade Ruyi sceptre, Qing Dynasty (£40,000-60,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE £425,750

    One of a pair of imperial yellow glazed dishes Zhende marks (£50,000-70,000) UPDATE: THIS LOT SOLD FOR £68,750

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    A MONUMENTAL BASQUIAT TO LEAD SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK SALE

    April 27th, 2017

    Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled 1982

    Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled from 1982 will lead Sotheby’s Contemporary Art evening auction in New York on May 18.  This  monumental work has remained virtually unseen since it last appeared on the market in May 1984. At the time the work was completed he was virtually unknown to the art world.  Purchased at auction for $19,000 in 1984 it is now estimated to make in excess of $60 million.

    It is one of a number of iconic American post-war paintings in a sale that also features Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly, as well as European masters including David Hockney, Rudolf Stingel and Gerhard Richter.

    Grégoire Billault, Head of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Department in New York, commented: “It is an enormous pleasure to bring a Basquiat of this magnitude to the market. The scale, subject matter, date and freshness, combined with recent record prices and increased demand for the artist’s work, make May the ideal time to present a masterpiece of this caliber – a truly outstanding achievement of recent art history – to the market.”

    UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR A RECORD $110.5 MILLION

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    SCHIELE MASTERPIECE AT SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK

    April 25th, 2017

    Egon Schiele’s – Danaë

    Egon Schiele’s first masterpiece Danaë will lead Sotheby’s evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York on May 16.  Painted in 1909, the work marks Schiele’s first major oil painting of a female nude, and is estimated to sell for $30–40 million.  The artist was just 19 years when he produced this extraordinary example of his daring technique. Danaë introduces the artist’s iconic aesthetic, and epitomizes the Jugendstil movement’s influence at the time. The composition also pays homage to Schiele’s informal mentor, Gustav Klimt, who championed the young artist throughout his career.

    Painted in 1969, a little more than a week before his 88th birthday, Pablo Picasso’s self-portrait Tête d’homme  is estimated at  $8/12 million.  It was painted in 1969, a little more than a week before his 88th birthday and was first exhibited in a one-man show that the artist curated himself in the hallowed halls of the Palace of the Popes in Avignon. Works emerging from a distinguished private collection include Impressionist pictures by Paul Signac, Alfred Sisley and Pierre Bonnard, as well as an important early sculpture by Alexander Archipenko. The group is led by Signac’s Le Pin de Bertaud ($3.5/5 million), a spectacular view of Saint-Tropez painted in 1899-1900

    Paul Signac – Le Pin de Bertaud

    Pablo Picasso’s self-portrait Tête d’homme

     

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    IRISH ARTISTS WHOSE WORK IS ENJOYED

    April 25th, 2017

    Irish artists whose work is enjoyed and collected by auction goers will feature at Dolan’s May Bank Holiday sale at Kelly’s Resort Hotel in Rosslare, Co. Wexford on April 30. Kenneth Webb, Evie Hone, Sean Keating, Frank McKelvey, James Humbert Craig, Hans Iten, Helen O’Hara, Markey Robinson, Tony O’Malley, Mark O’Neill, Sean McSweeney, Norman Teeling, Carina Scott, Arthur Maderson, Henry Morgan, Charles Harper, Mat Grogan and Carina Scott and Cecil Maguire all feature.  There is sculpture by John Behan and Cynthia Moran. Here is a small selection:

    Mark O’Neill’s “Show Day, Tinahely” (2,500-3,000)

    Carina Scott’s “Silhouette (white Connemara) (700-1,000)

    Mark O’Neill’s “Up Close and Personal” (1.400-2,000)

    Carina Scott’s “Moonlight” (1,200-1,800)

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    PARCHMENT COPY OF AMERICAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE DISCOVERED IN SUSSEX

    April 23rd, 2017

    The parchment copy of the American Declaration of Independence, which had been folded.

    One of only two parchment copies of America’s Declaration of Independence has been discovered by researchers from Harvard in a record office in West Sussex.  They unearthed the manuscript – believed to date from the 1780’s – while compiling a database of every copy of the declaration kept in Britain. The only other known parchment manuscript copy is kept at the National Archives in Washington DC.

    Staff at the West Sussex Record Office in Chichester had not taken a particular interest in the copy before the team from Harvard got in touch.  It was made ten years after the declaration. They are now working on a valuation. It is believed that the copy came to the record office  in 1956.  It was given by a local man who apparently worked for a law firm representing the Dukes of Richmond.

    Field Marshal Charles Lennox (1735-1806), 3rd Duke of Richmond, was known as the “radical duke” for his support for the American colonists’ rebellion.  He also supported a policy of concession in Ireland and held advanced views on parliamentary reform. It is thought that  he may have originally brought the manuscript to Britain. The record office is now working with the university as well as historians at the British Library and the American Library of Congress to carry out further tests on the manuscript.

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