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    • BOND’S ASTON MARTIN MAKES £2.43 MILLION

    February 19th, 2016
    The Aston Martin DB10 with Daniel Craig.

    The Aston Martin DB10 with Daniel Craig.

    The top lot at the first part of Christie’s sale of James Bond Spectre Memorabilia in London last night was Bond’s Aston Martin which made £2,434,500.  The sale realised £2,785,500.  All profitable proceeds are for charity.  The auction of ten lots was to celebrate the Home Entertainment release of Spectre on Blu-ray™ and DVD on February  22.  Proceeds are for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), other charitable organisations and the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS).  Registered bidders from 25 countries across four continents took part.   Afterwards producer Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli commented that they were truly delighted that the money raised will help vital medical projects in South Sudan, Syria and Yemen and thanked Aston Martin for donating the Aston Martin DB10.  It is one of a series designed and engineered exclusively for James Bond Spectre. The Day of the Dead costume worn by Daniel Craig made £98,500.  Spectre is the 24th film in the James Bond series.

    The online-only auction of 14 lots, James Bond Spectre: Online, remains open for bidding until February 23 at www.christies.com/spectreonline  Estimates are from £1,000 to £7,000.

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for January 21, 2016)

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    THE EVANGELISTS – A QUARTET OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

    February 18th, 2016

    The Evangelists, a unique quartet of musical instruments, will be offered at auction by Ingles and Hayday in London in March.  Attached is a video of the Ruisi Quartet playing these exceptional instruments.  Between 1863 and 1872 the famous French luthier Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume made a number of instruments dedicated to saints. It is believed that he produced around a dozen instruments, of which nine survive. They are known as ‘The Apostles’. The first four, and the most celebrated, date from 1863, when Vuillaume made the quartet known as ‘The Evangelists’. Made from matching wood it is the only one of Vuillaume’s celebrated quartets still together as a set today.   Each has a carved tailpiece, depicting one of the Evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.  The set has been in private European collections since about 1970, immaculately preserved and played only occasionally.  The estimate is £600,000-800,000 and the auction is on March 15.

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    A PAINTING OF QUEEN VICTORIA’S YACHT ESCORT AT CORK HARBOUR

    February 18th, 2016
    George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson - The Royal Yacht squadron bringing Queen Victoria to Cork Harbour, August 1849.

    George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson (1806-1884) – The Royal Yacht Squadron bringing Queen Victoria to Cork Harbour, August 1849.  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR A HAMMER PRICE OF 28,000

    A rare painting of the Royal Yacht Squadron escorting Queen Victoria to Cork Harbour in August 1849 will highlight the sale at Woodwards  on March 12.  Visual records of this event – for which the harbour town of Cove was renamed Queenstown  which remained its name until the late 1920’s when it reverted to the Irish name Cobh (pronounced cove) – are very rare.  It was as Queenstown that it achieved worldwide fame as the last port of call of the Titanic and the place to where bodies recovered from the Lusitania were taken and eventually buried.   Queenstown provided hundreds of thousands of Irish emigrants with a last heartbreaking glimpse of their home country.

    The Cobh based painter George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson provided one of the rare visual records of this event. He made several paintings of  the Royal Squadron in the harbour and the landing of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Woodwards say that apart from a lithograph based on a drawing by one of the ship’s officers published in aid of the female orphan asylum in Cork  and some wood engravings in the Illustrated London News  that Atkinson’s paintings appear to be the only visual records to have survived. A one time ship’s carpenter, inspector of shipping and self taught marine painter, George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson was one of a family of Cobh painters. Now estimated at 25,000-25,000 it was last sold for 40,000 a couple of decades ago.

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    SEVEN SALES = £190 MILLION AT CHRISTIE’S

    February 17th, 2016

    20th christiesA strong total of £190,230,950 was achieved by Christie’s across seven sales from January 29 to February 12.  Registered bidders from 71 countries across six continents, gave a strong indication that a ‘globalisation’ of taste continues to drive the evolution of collecting today. The sell-through rate was 86% by value and 84% by lot. All of the top ten lots were sold at the Impressionist, Modern and Surreal evening sale which achieved a total of £117,788,500. The Post-War and Contemporary evening auction achieved £58,099,000. British painting led the results with three decades of work by Peter Doig, David Hockney, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud making stand out results – the top six results were for British artists.

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    MADE IN BRITAIN AUCTION AT SOTHEBY’S

    February 16th, 2016

    Around 250 artworks illustrating the role Britain played in the development of modernism will feature at Sotheby’s Made in Britain auction in London on March 16.   The sale encompasses fine art, prints, sculpture, photography, studio ceramics and design.

    This is the fourth Made in Britain said and estimates start at just £200.  There are works by L.S. Lowry, Damien Hirst, Patrick Heron, Norman Parkinson, Frank Auerbach, Mary Fedden and David Hockney. The auction will also offer 19 works from the collection of the Martyn Goff, the driving force behind the Booker Prize. His first novel, The Plaster Fabric, was published in 1957. A highlight from the collection is a maquette for Henry Moore’s screen for the Time-Life building in Mayfair (£15,000-20,000).

    Henry Moore - Time-Life screen.

    Henry Moore – Time-Life screen.

    Banksy's Have a Nice Day.

    Banksy’s Have a Nice Day.

     

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    A MARTIN BROTHERS JAR AT DUBLIN AUCTION

    February 15th, 2016

    A c1895 Martin Brothers of Southall glazed pottery tobacco jar will highlight the James Adam sale of fine period interiors in Dublin on February 21.   Modelled in the form of a standing bird with a detachable head the tobacco jar and cover is estimated at 15,000-25,000.  The sale of 456 lots includes furniture, decorative arts, silver and paintings. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:

    MARTIN BROTHERS GLAZED POTTERY TOBACCO JAR AND COVER, c.1895 (15,000-25,000).

    MARTIN BROTHERS GLAZED POTTERY TOBACCO JAR AND COVER, c.1895 (15,000-25,000).

    INSCRIPTON - 'Martin Bros, London T Southall 10.1895'

    INSCRIPTION – ‘Martin Bros, London T Southall 10.1895’  UPDATE: THIS MADE 13,000 AT HAMMER

    JOSEPH HORLOR (1809-1887) Boy fishing on a rocky coast, boats offshore (500-700)

    JOSEPH HORLOR (1809-1887)
    Boy fishing on a rocky coast, boats offshore (500-700) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    A GEORGIAN MAHOGANY CHEST ON CHEST (2,000-3,000)

    A GEORGIAN MAHOGANY CHEST ON CHEST (2,000-3,000)  UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,600 AT HAMMER

    A FRENCH MARBLE AND ORMOLU MOUNTED 'BALLOON' MANTLE CLOCK (2,000-3,000).

    A FRENCH MARBLE AND ORMOLU MOUNTED ‘BALLOON’ MANTLE CLOCK (2,000-3,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 9,500 AT HAMMER

    AN EDWARDIAN WALNUT MARQUETRY TABLE-TOP CHESS BOARD (250-300)

    AN EDWARDIAN WALNUT MARQUETRY TABLE-TOP CHESS BOARD (250-300) UPDATE: THIS MADE 670 AT HAMMER

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    BUCK MINIATURES AT LYNES AND LYNES AUCTION

    February 14th, 2016
    A collection of miniatures – some by the Buck family – come up at Lynes and Lynes in Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork on February 20. The auction is timely as an exhibition by Cork born Adam Buck previously at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is running at the Crawford Gallery until April 9.  Adam Buck was one of four children in an artistic family.  He  became one of the most sought after portrait painters of Regency England.  18th and 19th century Rowland family miniatures by the Buck family and one by Andrew Dunn is included in the auction. The Rowland’s were Mayors and Sherriffs of Cork in the 18th century. Rowland’s Lane off Mulgrave Road is named after them.
    The auction will include some lots from Cashel Palace Hotel and a clearance from a Lismore estate. Among the antique furniture is a Regency rosewood side cabinet (2,000-3,000); a collection of seven early 19th century hunting scenes woven in silk by Thomas Stevens (1,000-1,500); a Cork Regency card table (2,000-2,500);  a c1800 Cork Georgian cylinder desk cabinet with fine fluted legs (1,500-2,000); two fine military chests (1,000-1,500 each); a large Victorian pine house keepers cupboard (1,000-1,500); a late Georgian dining table (400-600) and an antique mahogany hunt table (300-500). The sale includes a c1760 Irish George II carved pier mirror (2,000-3,000); a portrait of a lady by James Butler Brennan RHA (1825-1889) (600-1,000);  a pair of 19th century gilt brass and porcelain candelabra (600-1,000); four Morgan views of Cork Harbour (100-200): a Victorian cast iron spiral staircase and some Persian rugs.

    (See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for February 6 and 7, 2016 and July 17, 2015).

    A collection of miniatures.

    A collection of miniatures.  UPDATE: THESE SOLD FOR VARIOUS PRICES FROM 500 TO 1,100 MAKING A TOTAL OF WELL OVER 7,000

    A c1800 Cork cylinder desk and cabinet

    A c1800 Cork cylinder desk and cabinet  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 4,100

    An antique Irish mirror.

    An antique Irish mirror. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 5,000

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    COLLECTION BY VICTORIAN IRISH AUTHOR L.T. MEADE

    February 13th, 2016
    A collection of works by a prolific Bandon born novelist of the 19th century L.T. Meade is being offered for sale privately by Fonsie Mealy auctioneers for 25,000.   Elizabeth Thomasina Meade (1844-1914) was daughter of the Rev. R.T. Meade and his wife Sarah, nee Lane.  Her childhood was spent at Nohoval in County Cork. She moved to London in 1874, married and subsequently lived in Oxford. She had her first book published aged 22 and thereafter her output was enormous.
    Writing under the name of L.T. Meade she produced over 300 books, contributed numerous articles to periodicals and for 11 year edited a girls’ magazine – Atalanta – to which Rider Haggard and Robert Louis Stevenson contributed.  She wrote for children, schoolgirls and young women and responded to the social issues of her time. Her subjects included urban poverty, lack of good looks, inability to fit in, feminism, drug addiction, detective stories with child detectives and female master criminals and the role of the “modern” woman.  The collection now offered for sale represents a lifetime of careful collecting in the colorful binding of the time.

    The collection of books by L.T. Meade

    The collection of books by L.T. Meade

    L.T.Meade

    L.T.Meade

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    PETER DOIG LEADS CHRISTIE’S POST WAR AND CONTEMPORARY SALE

    February 11th, 2016

    Peter Doig’s The Architect’s Home in the Ravine, painted in 1991, was the top lot at Christie’s Post War and Contemporary auction in London tonight.  It made £11,282,500 in a sale which brought in £58,099,000.  Registered bidders from 42 countries across four continents took part in an auction where 51% of works sold above estimate and 38% were within estimate.

    Works that were hotly contested included David Hockney’s Beach Umbrella (1971), which made £3,106,500. Three works by Alexander Calder from the Arthur and Anita Kahn Collection realised a total of £3,439,500 led by Crag with Yellow Boomerang and Red Eggplant (1974), which sold for £1,874,500. Zeitpunkt: Das Massaker von Muenchen (Point of time: The Massacre of Munich) by Joseph Beuys sold for £854,500 and Untitled (1973) by Robert Mangold, made £746,500. Each set a new world record for the artist.  The Yves Klein illustrated below, estimated at £8-14 million, failed to sell.  Francis Bacon’s Two Figures (1975) sold for £5.4 million. A self portrait conjoined with the figure of George Dyer it was painted in Paris shortly after Dyer’s suicide. It was from the collection of Michael Peppiatt, a leading biographer and curator of Bacon.

    Peter Doig - The architect's home in the ravine.

    Peter Doig – The architect’s home in the ravine.

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    FREUD’S PREGNANT GIRL SELLS FOR £16.1 MILLION

    February 11th, 2016
    The auction room during the sale.

    The auction room during the sale. (See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for February 6 and January 17, 2016)

    Pregnant Girl,  Lucian Freud’s portrait of his then 17 year old Irish lover Bernadine Coverly pregnant with their daughter Bella, sold for £16.1 million at Sotheby’s in London last night. Dated 1960-61 it was a record price for an early painting by the artist.  The work had been in the same collection for more than 30 years.  It was the top lot in a sale of contemporary art which brought in £69.5 million. There were auction records for Alberto Burri and Adrian Ghenie.  Burri’s Sacco e Rosso made £9.1 million and Ghenie’s 2014 work, Sunflowers in 1937, soared to £3.1 million.

    Alex Branczik, head of Contemporary Art, London said afterwards:  “Tonight we saw a confident art market, punctuated by some real high-points and a depth of bidding. There was much debate about the market ahead of the sale, but in spite of the broader economy, tonight proved that collectors will always compete for works of outstanding quality and rarity.”

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