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An online auction of affordable Irish art is now underway at Morgan O’Driscoll. It runs until January 30 at 6.30 pm. The catalogue is online. Here is a selection:
John Behan – PRCA Award (800-1,200) UPDATE: THIS MADE 600 AT HAMMER
Patrick Scott (1921-2014) – Parade of the Guilds 1750 (300-500) UPDATE: THIS MADE 300 AT HAMMER
Maurice Desmond – Landscape (1985) (600-800) UPDATE: THIS MADE 550 AT HAMMER
Brian Ballard – Irises in a jug (700-900) UPDATE: THIS MADE 600 AT HAMMER
Around 375 lots will come under the hammer at the January sale at James Adam in Dublin at noon on January 29. There is an affordable selection of silver, art, dining chairs, lighting, antique furniture, glass, porcelain, mirrors. rugs and collectible items. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:
WYCLIFFE EGGINTON RI RCA (1875-1951)
Still life of roses in a mug watercolour (300-400) UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 570 AT HAMMER
A CHINESE BLACK LACQUER CABINET (400-600) UPDATE: THIS MADE 130 AT HAMMER
A GEORGIAN INLAID WALNUT AND CROSSBANDED KNEEHOLE WRITING DESK (300-500) UPDATE: THIS MADE 160 AT HAMMER
SET OF SIX IRISH BRIGHT CUT ENGRAVED SILVER TEASPOONS, Dublin 1894, together with a similar small Irish silver scroll end soup ladle, Dublin 1896 (80-120) UPDATE: THESE SOLD FOR 120 AT HAMMER.
The Killarney jewellery box is estimated at 1,500-2,000 and there is a similar estimate on a 19th century Irish gilt wood mirrors. There are two Cork silver bowls by Carden Terry and Daniel McCarthy estimated respectively at 3,000-4,000 and 2,000-3,000. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:
A c1850 Irish silver table with shell motif (6,000-10,000) UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 6,400
19th century Killarney jewellery (1,500-2,000) UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 1,650
The single-owner sale dedicated to the collection of Ed Cohen and Victoria Shaw at Sotheby’s in New York on March 2 is largely focused on Post-War and Contemporary Art. Entitled In Its Own Light the auction includes examples of German Expressionism and Modern British art. The New York couple’s collection was created over 35 years and reflects the close relationships (often grounded in a shared passion for literature), between Ed Cohen and many of the artists represented, as well as with gallerists such as Anthony d’Offay and Marian Goodman. Highlights include pieces by Joseph Beuys, John Currin, Cecily Brown, Brice Marden, Anselm Kiefer, Agnes Martin, William Kentridge and Gerhard Richter. Richter was collected in particular depth with a range of works – from a smaller-scale example of the artist’s signature abstraction, to examples from the important, but less well-known Souvenir and Painted Photograph series.
Allan Schwartzman, Chairman, Sotheby’s Fine Arts Division commented: “The Cohen Collection defines collecting at its best, as it includes the highest level of selectivity and connoisseurship, a very personal and finely honed assembly of artists spanning many generations, and an articulate and unwavering commitment to the most timeless of subjects for art—the human condition. Whether with artists collected in depth, or represented by a single work, the Cohens have consistently collected works that get to the heart of each artist represented, not always in the most obvious way, but always in the most insightful.” Ed Cohen is also known as a generous supporter of a number of museums, most notably the Tate where a gallery is named for him. The sale is estimated to fetch $4/6 million. It will be followed by the contemporary curated auction. Both sales are timed to coincide with The Armory Show, with exhibitions opening on February 24.
Gerhard Richter
Abstraktes Bild (843-4),1997 ($600/800,000)
Cecily Brown Bonus, 2004 ($300/400,000_
Anselm Kiefer Stefan I, 1975 ($150/200,000)
John Currin The Florist, 2003 ($400-600,000_
Paintings, furniture and collectibles will come under the hammer at the Attic2 auction at Sheppards in Durrow on January 26. This clear out sale, which is now on view, will feature objects from the attics, stables and storerooms of the clients of this auction house. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:
NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRASS MOUNTED AMBOYNA, SATINWOOD AND FRUITWOOD BANDED GLOVE BOX (100-150)
NINETEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIAN PAINTED POLYCHROME ICON (100-150)
NINETEENTH-CENTURY MAHOGANY CIRCULAR LOW TABLE (200-300)
AN EDWARDIAN PERIOD CHINESE CHIPPENDALE BOOKSTAND (200-300)
A c1800 writing bureau (800-1,200)
John Singleton Copley, The Fountaine Family, 1776 – Accepted under the Cultural Gifts Scheme by HM Government from David W Posnett OBE and allocated to Tate 2016
Born in Boston of Irish parents John Singleton Copley is considered the greatest of American 18th century artists. His father was from Limerick, his mother was a Singleton from Co. Clare. Active in Boston from 1753 to 1774 he moved to England in 1775 and was elected at Royal Academcian. A Loyalist he never returned to the US after the American Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Bidding is underway on Morgan O’Driscoll’s online sale of Irish art. It runs until Monday, January 23. The catalogue, which lists 213 lots, is online. Here is a small selection:
James Humbert Craig RHA RUA (1878-1944)
Cushendun (4,000-6,000) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Basil Blackshaw HRHA RUA (1932-2016)
Trees in Winter (1,500-2,500) UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,200 AT HAMMER
Abstract Composition by Barrie Cooke (1931-2014) (3,000-5,000) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Kenneth Webb RWA FRSA RUA (b.1927)
Sweet Pea in a Black Pot (3,000-4,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,600 AT HAMMER
WALTER FREDERICK OSBORNE – WHEN THE BOATS COME IN
When the Boats Come In by Irish impressionist Walter Osborne will lead Bonhams 19th Century European, Victorian and British Impressionist Art sale in London on March 1. Born in Dublin in 1859 he studied in his home city and in Antwerp. Osborne spent most of the years 1884 – 1891 in England, and it was during that period that he painted When the Boats Come In. At the time he was living in Rye in Sussex and this work is closely linked stylistically and in subject matter to another work he completed there, The Ferry. These, and other mid-career pictures such as Cherry Ripe and Boats in Rye Harbour, are regarded as among Osborne’s finest.
His works can be found in major collections in Ireland, including the Hugh Lane Gallery of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. His paintings also hang in Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery in London. Bonhams Director of 19th Century Paintings, Charles O’Brien said, “When the Boats Come In is a wonderful example of Osborne’s English period. It has many of the details – grazing geese, fishermen and villagers at work, a basket of fish with some of them spilling onto the quay – that the artist loved to include in his paintings and which have made them so popular and sought-after at auction.” It is estimated at £100,000-150,000.
UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £125,000
The silk flag of the Costello Volunteers, raised in Mayo and Roscommon in 1779, is a rarity estimated at 20,000-30,000. The sale features 40 lots of early printed maps and charts of Ireland and its coast, a collection Staffordshire figures of Irish nationalists including Tone, O’Connell, Parnell and Gladstone, the George V ministerial box used by Sean Lemass from 1932-39, the 1886 bandleaders mace from the Brian Borhoime Band, Clontarf, a piece of shrapnel recovered from Rathdown Park, Terenure following the bombing by German aircraft in January 1941, gold coins and banknotes among almost 550 lots.
The 1916 Rising medal awarded to Joseph Plunkett (40,000-60,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 40,000 AT HAMMER
19th century Staffordshire figure of Daniel O’Connell (300-500) UPDATE: THIS MADE 360 AT HAMMER
1654 Maps of Ireland by Joan Blaeu, from Theatrum or Novus Atlas. A set of six hand-coloured, engraved maps of Ireland, Ulster; Munster, Connaught (1,500-2,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,400 AT HAMMER
The 18th century silk flag of the Costello Volunteers (20,000-30,000). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Groundbreaking works by Mark Rothko and Robert Rauschenberg will feature at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art evening auction on March 7 in London. Mark Rothko’s groundbreaking No. 1 1949 is one of the earliest examples of his mature artistic vocabulary. Robert Rauschenberg’s Transom (1963) comes to auction alongside a major retrospective of his work at London’s Tate Modern, and demonstrates the radical new visual language that went on to lead a generation of American artists towards global domination. Together these two masters of 20th-Century painting will lead the field of American talent due to take centre stage during 20th Century at Christie’s, a series of sales from February 28 to March 10. The works will tour to Hong Kong (January 17-20), Shanghai (February 8), Beijing (February 11-13) and New York (February 24-26).
Francis Outred, Chairman and Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christies: “America is a profound force on the global stage and has been unstoppable in defining the contemporary culture of the last century. It is a privilege to present two seminal works that date from the beginning of this cultural dominance. Mark Rothko’s No.1 dates from 1949 and was one of his first works to incorporate the planes of colour as mood that defined his career. Robert Rauschenberg’s Transom is one of the breakthrough series of Silkscreen Paintings with which he not only sparred with Warhol but also became the very first American artist to win the Golden Lion at the 1964 Venice Biennale.”
