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    • MATISSE’S ODALISQUE AT SOTHEBY’S IN LONDON NEXT MONTH

    January 3rd, 2015
    Henri Matisse - Odalisque au fauteuil noir.

    Henri Matisse – Odalisque au fauteuil noir.  UPDATE: IT MADE £15.83 MILLION

    Henri Matisse’s Odalisque au fauteuil noir  will be a highlight at Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art evening sale in London on February 3.  Dated 1942 the portrait depicts  Princess Nézy-Hamidé Chawkat, the great granddaughter of the last Sultan of Turkey.  The exquisitely coloured painting is one of the finest of the artist’s celebrated ‘Odalisque’ paintings to come to the market and is estimated at £9-12 million.  It will be shown at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong from January 9-12.

    The Princess was spotted in the street by Matisse in 1940. He was drawn to her dark, striking looks. After a formal request permission was granted by the Princesses grandmother for her to sit for the artist, accompanied by a chaperone. Over the course of almost two years she became his favourite model. The painting reflects Matisse’s interest in orientalism, which he first began to explore in the 1920’s.

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    BOONTJE EXHIBITION AT SOTHEBY’S LONDON THIS MONTH

    January 2nd, 2015
    Fig Leaf, Tord Boontje, 2008 Designed for Meta, Hand-painted enamel and Bronze (H 236 × W 164 × D 85 cm). Photography by Lee Mawdsley, Courtesy of Meta.

    Fig Leaf, Tord Boontje, 2008
    Designed for Meta, Hand-painted enamel and Bronze (H 236 × W 164 × D 85 cm).
    Photography by Lee Mawdsley, Courtesy of Meta.

    An exhibition of works by designer Tord Boontje and sculptor Emma Woffenden runs at Sotheby’s New Bond Street Galleries in London from January 6-18. Originals, curated by Janice Blackburn, will showcase furniture, lighting, jewellery and textiles from the internationally acclaimed designer and sculpture and drawings by his wife Emma Woffenden.

    The centrepiece of the show is Boontje’s monumental Fig Leaf wardrobe, considered a masterpiece of 21st century design. No fewer than 11 ateliers across England and France worked on the wardrobe, which celebrates craft. The doors are encrusted with 616 hand painted enamel leaves. It was exhibited at the V and A in 2009, nominated the Best Furniture Design at the Brit Insurance Design Awards and Design of the Year 2008 in the Financial Times’ top ten design pieces of the 2000’s.

    “Originals” is the first retrospective exhibition dedicated to the work of Boontje, whose work can be found in leading institutions like the V and A, Tate Modern and the Design Museum in London, MoMA and the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York and the Stedelijk Museum and the Groninger Museum in The Netherlands.

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    ANNUAL TURNER SHOW AT NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND

    January 1st, 2015
    JMW Turner (1775-1851) Sunset over Petworth Park, Sussex, c.1828 Photo © National Gallery of Ireland

    JMW Turner (1775-1851)
    Sunset over Petworth Park, Sussex, c.1828
    Photo © National Gallery of Ireland

    THIS is January and the Turners are on display at the National Gallery of Ireland for the month.  The annual festival of Turner watercolours began in 1901.  The Vaughan bequest of watercolours and drawings by JMW Turner (1775-1851) was presented to the gallery in 1900.

    In his will the English collector Henry Vaughan (1809-1899) stipulated that the watercolours should be exhibited every year, free of charge, for the month of January.  The 31 works  cover all periods of the artists career, including topographical scenes and expressive images from later European tours.  In 2015 the watercolours are being shown in their original frames to January 31.

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    A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR READERS AROUND THE WORLD

    December 31st, 2014

    A very happy New Year 2015 to all readers of antiquesandartireland.com  Here is a video preview of something to look forward to in 2015 – The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, The Netherlands.  In 2015 TEFAF  will feature 275 of the world’s leading galleries from 20 countries.  TEFAF will run from March 13 to March 22.

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    LARGEST COLLECTION OF ASIAN ART EVER AT AUCTION

    December 29th, 2014

    The largest collection of Asian art ever to appear at auction – the collection of distinguished American scholar, dealer Robert Hatfield Ellsworth – will be offered by Christie’s during Asian Art Week in New York next March.  It will be dispersed during a special five day series of auctions and online only sales. Widely recognized throughout Asia and the Americas for his ground-breaking role in the study and appreciation of Asian Art, Mr. Ellsworth, who died last August, opened new arenas of collecting to Western audiences. He built a successful business purveying the very finest works of art to his generation’s foremost collectors. His personal collection of over 2,000 items was assembled over a lifetime and is widely recognized as the most important grouping of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian sculpture, paintings, furniture and works of art.

    A view from his 22 room apartment on 5th Avenue in Manhattan. © Christie’s Images Limited 2014

    A view from his 22 room apartment on 5th Avenue in Manhattan. © Christie’s Images Limited 2014

    Robert Ellsworth in Anhui Province, China, 1995.© Christie’s Images Limited 2014

    Robert Ellsworth in Anhui Province, China, 1995.© Christie’s Images Limited 2014

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    A LATE DECEMBER SALE AT VIRGINIA PARK LODGE

    December 27th, 2014

    Around 630 lots will come under the hammer at Matthews on the premises auction of residual contents from Virginia Park Lodge, Virginia, Co. Cavan on December 29. Virginia Park Lodge has been bought and refurbished by the internationally known chef Richard Corrigan.  The catalogue for the auction is online. Here is a small selection:

    An Art Deco design birds eye maple consul table.

    An Art Deco design birds eye maple consul table.

    A club fender.

    A club fender.

    An antique lantern.

    An antique lantern.

    A pair of 18th century Chinese vases.

    A pair of 18th century Chinese vases.

    A Chinese hardwood stand with inset marble top.

    A Chinese hardwood stand with inset marble top.

    A Regency circular centre table, 4'6" in diameter.

    A Regency circular centre table, 4’6″ in diameter.

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    AN AUCTION OF GREAT INTEREST TO MR. S. CLAUS

    December 24th, 2014
    Who might buy this lot at Bonhams?

    Who might buy this lot at Bonhams?

    Mr. S. Claus –  someone with many presents to gather and a regular reader of antiquesandartireland.com – will be particularly interested in an upcoming auction. One of the world’s finest single-owner collections of Victorian carriages and coaches comes up at Bonhams carriage collection sale next March 7. With all the travelling Santa Claus does – not to mention a North Pole address – there can never be too many sleds and sleighs.

    The privately owned collection gathered by a European industrialist contains more than 150 lots, some dating back to the 17th century. There are two beautifully designed 18th century sleds. An ex Royal British Mews 1835 travelling Landau is said by the auctioneer to be one of the most historically significant carriages on the open market for many years. It is estimated at £200,000-300,000. There are more than 30 carriages and coaches from makers including Holland and Holland, Guiet and Co., Barker and Co. and Van Campenhout.  Three cars, a 1908 Sears Model P Four Seat High Wheel Runabout, a 1907 Holsman Economy American Buggy and a Brass Radiator Ford Model T Speedster, will be of much interest to collectors.

    We wish our readers around the world a very Happy Christmas.

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    THE LOT THAT ATTRACTED MOST BIDS AT SOTHEBY’S IN 2014

    December 23rd, 2014
    This inscribed silver matchbox holder by Padgett and Braham Ltd. attracted more bids than any other lot at Sotheby's in 2014.

    This inscribed silver matchbox holder by Padgett and Braham Ltd. attracted more bids than any other lot at Sotheby’s in 2014.

    Provenance was the key to the lot that attracted the highest number of bids at Sotheby’s in 2014 – a silver matchbox holder.  There were 71 bids for the children’s Christmas present to Winston Churchill in 1927, an inscribed silver matchbox holder by Padgett and Braham Ltd.  It was sold for £68,500 over an estimate of £300-500.

    It attracted more bids that Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed, which established a record price for a female artist of $44.4 and the British Guiana one cent black on magenta stamp which sold for a world record price of $9.4 million. It got more bids than the most valuable timepiece in history, the Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication which made US$24 million and Mark Rothko’s Untitled which sold for $39.9 million, almost double the high estimate. The highest price paid at Sotheby’s in 2014 was $100,965,000 for Alberto Giacometti’s Chariot.

    There was a world record per carat price of $997,727 when the Graff Ruby sold for $8.6 million. A fancy blue diamond pendant from the collection of Mrs. Paul Mellon sold for $32,645,000 or $3,348,205 per carat. This was a new auction record for any blue diamond and price per carat record for any diamond.  A world record for the most expensive wine lot was established when a Romanee Conti super lot of 114 bottles sold for US$1.7 million

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    THE ART OF THE SILHOUETTE IN 19TH CENTURY CORK

    December 23rd, 2014

    The Art of the Silhouette in 19th century Cork now running at the Crawford Gallery includes works by Augustin Edouart and Stephen O’Driscoll.  Born in France and a member of Napoleon’s army Edouart moved to England in 1814 and to Cork in 1834.   In 1835 his book A Treatise on Silhouette Likenesses was published by Longman and Co., Paternoster Row and by J. Bolster of Cork. He went to America in 1839 and stayed there for ten years.  Most of his folios, including duplicates of all his silhouettes, were lost in a shipwreck on his return journey in 1849.

    The Cork lithographer Stephen O’Driscoll produced caricature portraits and silhouettes. Silhouettes in black paper were often touched up with gold or paint. Strickland records that he designed and printed the address presented to Queen Victoria on her visit to Cork. A book plate of Rev. James O’Regan in the Franks Collection in the British Museum is signed O’Driscoll, lithog.  He died in 1895 aged 70.

    The Only Hunting Allowed, c. 1850, pen and ink on paper, 31.5 x 25.3cm, Stephen O'Driscoll, Collection of Crawford Art Gallery.

    The Only Hunting Allowed, c. 1850, pen and ink on paper, 31.5 x 25.3cm, Stephen O’Driscoll, Collection of Crawford Art Gallery.

    Angling on the Lee, c.1850, pen and ink on paper, 31.5 x 25.3cm, Stephen O'Driscoll, Collection of Crawford Art Gallery.

    Angling on the Lee, c.1850, pen and ink on paper, 31.5 x 25.3cm, Stephen O’Driscoll, Collection of Crawford Art Gallery.

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    IRISH ART FROM DOLAN’S CORK SALE IN JANUARY

    December 22nd, 2014

    Dolans will have an auction of Irish art, much of it very affordable,  at Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork on January 18.  There will also be some antique and collectible lots. The catalogue is still in the course of preparation.  Here are a couple of artworks which will feature in the sale.

    Norah McGuinness HRHA 1901-1980 FIELDS OF DONEGAL (1,400-1,800).

    Norah McGuinness HRHA
    1901-1980
    FIELDS OF DONEGAL (1,400-1,800).  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 1,400

    Michael Morris b.1979 SUBURBAN VILLA (400-600).

    Michael Morris
    b.1979
    SUBURBAN VILLA (400-600). UPDATE: THIS MADE 600

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