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    • MANCHESTER UNITED JERSEYS AT WHYTE’S AUCTION

    September 7th, 2014
    Each of the jerseys worn by Manchester United team mates at the testimonial match for Irish Captain Denis Irwin at Old Trafford in August 2000 will come up at a sale entitled The Eclectic Collector at Whyte’s in Dublin on September 20. They are from a private collector living in Dublin. The 17 jerseys are embroidered “Denis Irwin Testimonial Game” above the Manchester United Crest.  Marking the Corkman’s long and successful career at Manchester United each one is signed by players including Paul Scholes, Phil Neville, David Beckham, Gary Neville, Teddy Sherringham and Roy Keane.  Whytes are guiding the lot at 3,000-5,000.  More than 800 lots will come under the hammer.  UPDATE: THIS LOT MADE 3,000 AT HAMMER

    Each jersey is embroidered with the game title.

    Each jersey is embroidered with the game title.

    The jersey worn by David Beckham at Denis Irwin's testimonial game.

    The jersey worn by David Beckham at Denis Irwin’s testimonial game.

     

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    A KOLLWITZ SELF-PORTRAIT AT DUBLIN ANTIQUE FAIR

    September 3rd, 2014
    Käthe Kollwitz - Self-portrait with hand to her forehead.

    Käthe Kollwitz – Self-portrait with hand to her forehead.

    A Self-portrait with hand to her forehead by Käthe Kollwitz will feature at the Whitley Art Gallery stand at the annual Irish Antique Dealers Fair at the RDS in Dublin from September 25-28.  Signed in pencil the original etching in black ink is thought to have been printed by Richter or Von Becke c.1925/1930 before the 1931 Von Becke edition.  The etching is reproduced and discussed in James Hall’s new book The Self-Portrait, A cultural History` (Thames&Hudson).  The work of Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) focused on  poverty, hunger, war and the human condition.  There is a museum dedicated to her work in Charlottenberg, Berlin.  The Self-portrait with hand to her forehead is priced at 5,250.

    The Irish Antique Dealers Association (IADA) annual fair will take place in the Main Hall at the RDS.

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    FONTHILL DRAGON JAR TO MAKE MORE THAN US$10.3 MILLION

    September 3rd, 2014
    The Fonthill Dragon Jar

    The Fonthill Dragon Jar

    THE Fonthill Dragon Jar is expected to sell for more than US$10.3 million at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong on October 8. The carved celadon glazed jar has the seal mark and period of Qianlong.  The classic jar form was rendered in a larger format than previously and  the eternal subjects of dragons among waves and clouds are portrayed in exceptional style.

    Other highlights include a Xuande fish stem cup from the Chunzaizhai Collection which is estimated at US$5.1-7.7 million.

    Nicolas Chow, Sotheby’s Asia Deputy Chairman and International Head of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, said: “This season, it is our privilege to present a wonderful selection of some of the world’s most celebrated collections – Hosokawa, Hausmann, Baoyizhai – spanning a diversity of fields such as Imperial porcelain, later bronzes and lacquer.  Besides, we will also offer a number of masterworks of Chinese Imperial porcelain, including the magnificently carved celadon jar decorated with dragons formerly in the Fonthill collection.”

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    HENRY MOORE AT BONHAMS BRITISH AND IRISH ART SALE

    September 1st, 2014
    Henry Moore (1898-1986) - Reclining Figure on a Pedestal.

    Henry Moore (1898-1986) – Reclining Figure on a Pedestal.

    A monumental work by Henry Moore will be a feature at Bonhams auction of British and Irish art in London on November 17-18. Figure on pedestal, which belongs to a UK Corporation and was acquired directly from the artist in the  early 1960’s, is estimated at £1-2 million.  Since its conception in 1959-60 casts of this bronze have been exhibited in Europe and the United States. The theme of the reclining nude obsessed Moore and played a central role in the development of his sculpture throughout his career as an artist. He defined his own persona as an artist not so much by endless variety as by his ability to return to a familiar motif and make it new. In so doing, he renewed himself.

    Moore commented on his fascination with the recumbent form: ‘I want to be quite free of having to find a ‘reason’ for doing the Reclining Figures, and freer still of having to find a ‘meaning’ for them. The vital thing for an artist is to have a subject that allows [him] to try out all kinds of formal ideas, things that he doesn’t yet know about for certain but wants to experiment with, as Cézanne did in his ‘Bathers’ series. In my case the reclining figure provides chances of that sort. The subject-matter is given. It’s settled for you, and you know it and like it, so that within it, within the subject that you’ve done a dozen times before, you are free to invent a completely new form-idea.’   He once pointed to the maternal element of his Reclining Figures, referring to both womanhood and mother earth.  The configuration of Reclining Figure on a Pedestal identified the female form with the undulating landscape and natural forms.  The work will be exhibited in New York in October.

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    PATRICK COLLINS AT MORGAN O’DRISCOLL RDS AUCTION

    September 1st, 2014
    Patrick Collins (1911-1994) - Islands

    Patrick Collins (1911-1994) – Islands UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 16,500

    Islands, a magnificent oil on board by Patrick Collins (1911-1994) is a feature lot at Morgan O’Driscoll’s art auction at the RDS on September 15 at 6 p.m..  According to catalogue notes by art historian Niamh O’Sullivan: “Collins played a significant part in the radicalization and internationalization of Irish art. In many respects, Ireland skipped the evolving ‘isms of European and American twentieth century art until the 1960s. This sudden recognition of modernism resulted in a unique form, typified by Collins, a bringing together an art that acknowledges its Celtic past, but is distinctly modern”.  Islands, which was once in the collection of Sir Basil Goulding, is estimated at 17,500-25,000.

    Other pieces in the 114 lot auction on offer include Paper Crane by the Beijing based artist Li Wentao (50,000-70,000) and Still Life with Flowers by Roderick O’Conor (12,000-18,000).  There is an exceptional example by Sean McSweeney entitled Bogland (6,000-8,000) and work by artists including Jack B. Yeats, Evie Hone, Hector McDonnell, Basil Blackshaw, Frank Egginton, Arthur Maderson, William Conor, Norah McGuinness, Elizabeth Cope and Gladys MacCabe.

    Roderic O'Conor (1860-1940) - Still Life with Flowers (12,000-18,000).

    Roderic O’Conor (1860-1940) – Still Life with Flowers (12,000-18,000).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 10,000

    William Sadler II (1782-1839 View of the Great Sugar Loaf and the Little Sugar Loaf, Co. Wicklow (3,000-5,000).

    William Sadler II (1782-1839 View of the Great Sugar Loaf and the Little Sugar Loaf, Co. Wicklow (3,000-5,000).  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    Sean McSweeney - Bogland (6,000-8,000)

    Sean McSweeney – Bogland (6,000-8,000)  UPDATE: THIS MADE 6,000

     

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    PUGIN SPECIMEN WOOD TABLE AT FONSIE MEALY

    September 1st, 2014

     

    This table, attributed to Pugin, is at Fonsie Mealy's on October 7.

    This table, attributed to Pugin, is at Fonsie Mealy’s on October 7.

    A specimen wood table attributed to the pioneer of the Gothic Revival style A.N.W. Pugin (1812-1852) comes up at Fonsie Mealy’s Chatsworth Fine Art sale in Castlecomer on October 7.

    There is a selection of specimen woods, an unusual mechanism and a variety of secret drawers.

    Pugin designed a number of buildings in Ireland including Maynooth College and churches and cathedrals in Killarney, Enniscorthy and Tralee.  This table  comes from the collection of  a religious order and is estimated at 4,000-6,000.

     

    UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

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    THE MOST VALUABLE WINE AUCTION LOT EVER OFFERED

    August 29th, 2014
    The 114-Bottle Romanée-Conti Superlot 1992 – 2010

    The 114-Bottle Romanée-Conti Superlot 1992 – 2010

    The most valuable wine auction lot ever offered – the Romanée-Conti Superlot – comes up at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong on October 4.  Sotheby’s one day sale features a wealth of top notch Burgundies, led by an historic Henri Jayer collection and the Romanée-Conti Superlot.  The auction gets underway with a selection of Henri Jayer magnums from the cellar of James H. Clark, founder of Netscape Communications Corporation.  The collection of 66 magnums in 19 lots is estimated at US$750,000-1.2 million.  Of the 66 magnums 19 are the extremely rare Vosne-Romanée Cros Parantoux, 1990.  Additional lots from Mr. Clark will be available at a Sotheby’s single owner sale in New York next November 15.

    The 114 bottle Romanée-Conti Superlot of 19 consecutive vintages (six bottles per vintage of 1992-2010) is estimated at US$1.5-2.5 million, making it the most valuable wine lot ever offered. Romanée-Conti is regarded as one of the greatest wines in the world, with a miniscule average annual production of 5,500 bottles.  Given their small productions, Burgundies have been in ever-growing demand globally.  The Burgundy lots make up over 40% of the total number of 778 lots available in this sale.  The auction is expected to bring in US$4.5-6.7 million. 

    UP to now the most valuable wine lot ever sold at auction was a single case lot of 50 cases of Chateau Mouton Rothschild, 1982 which made US$1,051,600 at Sotheby’s, New York in 2006:  UPDATE Sotheby’s today broke the world auction record for the most expensive wine lot when it sold the Romanée-Conti Superlot for HK$12,556,250 / US$1,609,776.  The price achieved per bottle of the 114-bottle Superlot was HK$110,143 / US$14,121, which equals HK$13,768 / US$1,700 per glass for 912 glasses.  

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    A PAUL HENRY AT SOTHEBY’S IN LONDON IN DECEMBER

    August 28th, 2014
    Paul Henry - The Fishing Fleet, Co. Galway - 16" x 20" (£80,000-120,000).

    Paul Henry – The Fishing Fleet, Co. Galway – 16″ x 20″ (£80,000-120,000).  UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR £98,500

    A Paul Henry painting discovered in Ireland will come up  at Sotheby’s British and Irish art auction in London on December 10. The Fishing Fleet, Co. Galway by Henry is estimated at £80,000-120,000.  Charlie Minter, Sotheby’s British and Irish art specialist, will be offering free appraisals in Belfast and Dublin in the coming weeks by appointment only.  He will be carrying out appraisals in Belfast and Northern Ireland on September 8 and 9 and in Dublin and countrywide on September 10 and 11.  Sotheby’s next British and Irish art auction in London on December 10 will close for consignments from Ireland in the first week of October. Highlights from the sale will be exhibited in Dublin on November 28, 29 and 30.

    Charlie Minter commented:  “In the past couple of  years Sotheby’s has achieved a number of impressive results for Irish artists many of which have been sourced in Ireland. It has been encouraging to see renewed attention for Irish art as a whole”.  He added that global attention for Irish art continues to grow, with competition driven by works that are fresh to the market and attractively priced.

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    YETI FOOTPRINTS AND VINTAGE POSTERS AT CHRISTIE’S ONLINE AUCTION

    August 28th, 2014

    With everything from photographs of Yeti footprints to vintage film posters, an elephant bird egg and a fossilised giant palm frond Christie’s online auction Out of the Ordinary: The Online Edit runs from now until September 10.  The sale offers collectors of all things extraordinary the chance to acquire unusual objects from around the world at any time. A group of photographs showing Yeti footprints in the Memluk Basin (£3,000 – 5,000) were taken by Eric Earle Shipton (1907-1977) during the 1951 Everest expedition. Shipton’s photographs ignited speculation about the existence of a Yeti which had been growing since N.A. Tombazi made the first European sighting during an expedition to the Sikkim Himalaya in 1925. Edmund Hillary  had a strange experience at 19,000 feet in the Himalayas in 1952. In his book High Adventure (1955) he reported:  “We were climbing quite a steep pitch when Pemba stopped and picked something off the rock. Obviously greatly excited he showed it to Angpemba. Feeling somewhat curious I asked them what it was all about. They placed in my hand a tuft of long black hairs – thick and coarse they looked more like bristles than anything else.  “Yeti, Sahib, Yeti”. I couldn’t help being impressed by their conviction and it did seem a strange place to find some hair. We were well over 19,000 feet and the Abominable Snowman was obviously no mean rock climber”.

    Eric Earle Shipton (1907-1977), Photographer Yeti footprints in the Menlung Basin Courtesy Christie's Images Ltd., 2014.

    Eric Earle Shipton (1907-1977), Photographer
    Yeti footprints in the Menlung Basin Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2014.

    I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE Reynold Brown (1917-1991) 1958, Paramount, U.S.

    I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE
    Reynold Brown (1917-1991) Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2014
    1958, Paramount, U.S.

     

     

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    THE OPULENT EYE AT CHRISTIE’S IN LONDON

    August 27th, 2014

    Furniture, sculpture and works of art from the 19th century feature at Christie’s sale The Opulent Eye in London on September 18,  The sale is led by an exceptional coffre à bijoux, jewellery cabinet-on-stand, by Henri Fourdinois (£70,000-100,000). Recently rediscovered in a private Portuguese collection this unique cabinet captures the grand ambition and subtle sophistication of the great exhibitions of 19th century Europe. The mahogany veneers are finely inlaid with silvered-bronze mounts, and the angles cornered by lapis lazuli veneered columns supporting ivory angels by the sculptor Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse.

    Representing many of the best makers and sculptors of the period, the sale presents palatial furnishings drawn from an eclectic mixture of styles and countries, united by their opulence, fine craftsmanship and use of precious materials. Featuring furniture, lighting, marble and bronze sculpture, garden statuary, clocks, carpets and porcelain, the sale totals 328 lots and is expected to realise in the region of £3.5 million. 

    A French gilt and silvered bronze enamel and ivory mounted Coffre a bijoux (£80,000-120,000). Courtesy Christie's Images Ltd., 2014.

    A French gilt and silvered bronze enamel and ivory mounted Coffre a bijoux (£80,000-120,000). Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2014.

     

    A French ormolu mounted American walnut credence by Edouard Lievre, Paris c1870 (£150,000-250,000).

    A French ormolu mounted American walnut credence by Edouard Lievre, Paris c1870 (£150,000-250,000).  Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2014.

     

    One of a pair of over life size cast iron models of a lion and tiger, the models by Henri Alfred Marie Jacquemart (£80,000-120,000). Courtesy Christie's Images Ltd., 2014.

    One of a pair of over life size cast iron models of a lion and tiger, the models by Henri Alfred Marie Jacquemart (£80,000-120,000). Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2014.

     

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