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    • LEADING WORLD ARTISTS DONATE WORK FOR LONDON GALLERY

    May 11th, 2011

    Takashi Murakami Flowers from the Village Pontokan Acrylic and platinum leaf on canvas mounted on aluminium frame Executed in 2011 Donated by the artist. Estimate £120,000-150,000. Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: IT MADE £373,250

    Jeff Koons Inflatable Flower (Orange) 2011 High chromium stainless steel with transparent colour coating Executed in 2011, this work is 1 of 5 unique versions Donated by the artist. Estimate £200,000-300,000. Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE £337,250

    THE world’s leading contemporary artists have donated works to be auctioned in aid of the new space at the Serpentine Gallery. The Serpentine Sackler Gallery will open in 2012 to coincide with the London Olympics.
    The sale by Sotheby’s on June 30, 2011 will feature 46 works.  Artists who donated include John Currin, Gilbert & George, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Chris Ofili, Richard Prince, Paula Rego and Cindy Sherman.  There is work by Ron Arad, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Phyllida Barlow, Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Glenn Brown, Anthony Caro, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Fischli & Weiss, Yang Fudong, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Antony Gormley, Subodh Gupta, Andreas Gursky, N.S. Harsha, Susan Hefuna, M.F. Husain, Jitish Kallat, Anish Kapoor, Ellsworth Kelly, Bharti Kher, Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama, Maria Lassnig, Annie Leibovitz, Shirin Neshat Gabriel Orozco, Paula Rego, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Do-Ho Suh, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gillian Wearing and Rachel Whiteread.
    The innovative arts venue will be housed in the listed building formerly known as The Magazine in Kensington Gardens.  The building will be fully renovated by Pritzker Prize winning architect Zaha Hadid to create a new destination for contemporary culture.
    UPDATE:  THE sale brought in £4,545,675  more than double the low estimate of £2.2 million. The Serpentine Sackler Gallery will open in 2012 in Kensington Gardens. John Currin’s Edwardian was the top lot. It made £713,250.

    John Currin, Edwardian executed in 2011 (estimate £300,000-400,000). Click to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE £713,250.

    Antony Gormley Measure III grey Iron executed in 2011. Donated by the artist. Estimate £80,000-120,000. Click to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE £253,250

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    MOST LOTS IN THIS GALWAY ART SALE HAVE NO RESERVE

    May 11th, 2011
    Dolan’s, the Galway based Irish art auction house which has established itself with regular sales around the country, have an auction at the Pillo (Marriott) Hotel in Galway at 4 p.m. on May 15.  The majority of the 225 lots on the catalogue are to be sold without reserve. Here is a small selection of what is on offer (click on any image to enlarge):

    Urban Village is the title of this limited edition lithograph by Chris Reid. Signed and dated 1970 with a Hendriks Gallery label it is estimated at 200-250. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    Heading down the Claddagh, an oil on board by Ivan Sutton, is estimated at 1,600-2,200. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    Summer's Day is the title of this work by Maurice Wilks. It is estimated at 1,800-2,500. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,700

    Grapes and Cheese by David Ffrench le Roy has an estimate of 750-1,000. UPDATE: THIS MADE 700

    ELVIS AND YOUNG FAN Cleveland Arena, Cleveland, Ohio, November 23rd 1956 black and white photoprint by Lew Allen, is estimated at 700-800. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.

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    18th CENTURY IRISH ACTRESS WHO BECAME NOTORIOUS IN LONDON

    May 11th, 2011
    A portrait miniature of Irish 18th century actress Margaret “Peg” Woffington by the artist James Ferguson, is a highlight of Bonhams fine portrait miniatures sale in Knightsbridge, London, on May 25.  Born in Dublin in 1720 she started as a street singer before making her stage debut aged 10 as Polly Peachum in the ‘Beggars’ Opera’.   She made her name as an actress in Dublin.  In 1740 her success as Sir Harry Wildair in ‘The Constant Couple’ led to her London debut in Covent Garden.
    Considered a beauty she met and fell in love with David Garrick, the foremost actor of his day. She lived openly with Garrick. Other love affairs, including liaisons with Edward Bligh, 2nd Earl of Darnley and the MP, Charles Hanbury Williams, were numerous and notorious. Woffington, who continued to act in London and in Dublin, managed to educate her sister Mary and pensioned their mother.  She left Garrick in 1744 and moved to Teddington.
    In 1757 she collapsed on stage. Illness prevented her from acting again.  Instead she built and endowned almhouses in Teddington. She died in 1760. The miniature is estimated at £1,500- 2,500.
    UPDATE:  It was sold for £4,800 including buyer’s premium.

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    SIXTEEN JACKIES, TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS

    May 11th, 2011

    Andy Warhol's Sixteen Jackies. (click on image to enlarge)

    Andy Warhol’s Sixteen Jackies made $20,242,500 at Sotheby’s contemporary art sale in New York on May 10.  The auction  brought in $128.1 million and 47 of the 58 lots were sold.

    In the early 1960s Warhol’s rows of soup cans and movie stars were screened within a single canvas. With the Jackie paintings the artist created numbers of small panels later assembled into large compositions for the first time.  He employed eight Jackie images from smiling wife to grieving widow with their mirror reversals through the press coverage of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy surrounding her husbands assassination.
    The images follow Jackie from her arrival at Dallas, through the motorcade, the assassination, the administration of the oath of office for the new President Johnson and the funeral in Washington.
    Jeff Koons’ Pink Panther, one of the most important works by the artist ever to have appeared at auction, sold for $16,882,500. The work last appeared at auction in 1999 when it made $1.8 million.  The porcelain sculpture is the artist’s proof from an edition of three, with the other examples in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
    Art of the last 30 years fared well. Six of the seven Warhol’s at the sale were sold, totalling over $31 million.
    The result followed the  $54.8 million achieved the previous night for the Allan Stone collection, bringing Sotheby’s overall two day total to $182,910,000.

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    IRISH ART SELLS AT O’DRISCOLL AUCTION IN CORK

    May 10th, 2011

    William Crozier HRHA (b.1930) 'Abstract' made 4,000

    Barrie Castle (1935-2006) ‘The Apple Picker’ made 1,500 at the Morgan O’Driscoll sale in Cork on May 9.

    William Conor RHA RUA ROI (1881-1968) 'Music Session' made 13,500 at the Morgan O'Driscoll sale in Cork.

    Joseph William Carey RUA (1859-1937) 'Creeslough, Donegal' made 575 at the Morgan O'Driscoll sale in Cork.

    Sean McSweeney HRHA (b.1935) 'Shoreline Trees' made 1,700 at the Morgan O'Driscoll sale in Cork.

    SOME results from the Morgan O’Driscoll Irish art auction in Cork on May 9.

    The sale was about 68 per cent sold.

    See antiquesandartireland.com post for April 30.

    (Click on any image to enlarge).

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    JOHN DOHERTY AT TAYLOR GALLERIES, DUBLIN

    May 7th, 2011

    John Doherty 'The Odd Couple (Open for Petrol)', 2010

    John Doherty, 'Morris', 2010

    John Doherty, 'The Fruit & Veg Van', 2011,

    The photo-realist painter John Doherty has a show of New Paintings at Taylor Galleries on Kildare St. in Dublin until May 21.   He returns with new works on canvas and smaller works on card to his most familiar subjects – forlorn shop fronts, rusting petrol pumps, lighthouses and colourful boats abandoned in shipyards. Works on card are priced at 3,500 and works on canvas start at 6,500.  It is his first solo show at Taylor since 2007.
    Born in Kilkenny in 1949 John Doherty studied architecture at Bolton St. in Dublin before moving to Sydney, where he pursued a career as a visual artist. His paintings feature in public collections at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; the Institute of Modern Art, Chicago; the Irish National Stud, Kildare; and Artbank in Sydney.  (Click on any image to enlarge)

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    HEGARTY’S SALE IN BANDON ON MAY 8

    May 6th, 2011

    An Irish Arts and Crafts movement library bookcase c1890 (estimate 5,000-10,000) UPDATE: THIS WAS BID UP TO 3,800 AND REMAINED UNSOLD, BUT IS UNDER ACTVE NEGOTIATION.

    A William IV walnut davenport at Hegarty's, Bandon. UPDATE: IT MADE 3,650

    A 19th century bronze figure "The Harvester", signed A. Gaudez, exhibited at the Salon, Paris 1899 at Hegarty's. UPDATE: IT MADE 950.

    A gong with horse decoration at Hegarty's. UPDATE: IT MADE 1,200.

    There is a wide variety of lots on offer at Hegarty’s sale in Bandon on Sunday, May 8 at 4 p.m.  This 350 lot sale features antique furniture, porcelain, glass, jewellery, silver and household effects.

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    JOHN PIPER’S VIEW OF CASTLETOWN HOUSE

    May 6th, 2011

    Castletown House by John Piper. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: THIS MADE £25,000

    This pen and ink and oil on canvas image of Castletown House, Celbridge, Co. Kildare – Ireland’s finest Palladian mansion built in 1722 – is by the English artist John Piper  (1903-1992).

    He was an official artist during World War II and collaborated with many people, including poet John Betjeman on the Shell Guides.

    John Piper designed the stained glass windows for the new Coventry Cathedral and created tapestries for the cathedrals at Chichester and Hereford.  He designed many of the premiere productions of Benjamin Britten’s operas at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Royal Opera House, La Fenice and the Aldeburgh Festival.

    This image of Castletown House comes up at Sotheby’s sale of 20th century British art in London on May 25.  It is estimated at £20,000-£30,000.

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    EGON SCHIELE CITYSCAPE HIGHLIGHTS SOTHEBY’S LONDON SALE IN JUNE

    May 5th, 2011

    Egon Schiele's Häuser mit bunter Wäsche, “Vorstadt” II is one of the most important oils by the Austrian artist ever to come to the market. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: SOLD FOR £24,681,250,

    This 1914 cityscape, one of the most important oils by Egon Schiele ever to come to the market, will be a highlight of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art sale in London on June 22.  Häuser mit bunter Wäsche, “Vorstadt” II – translated as Houses with colourful Laundry “Suburb” II – ranks among just a small number of significant cityscapes by Schiele remaining in private hands.  It was acquired in the year it was painted by Schiele’s friend and patron Heinrich Böhler. It has been in the collection of the Leopold Museum in Vienna since 1952.
    The Museum’s managing director Peter Weinhäupl said:  “The Leopold Museum today is committed to affirming its position as the pre-eminent repository of Austrian Modern Art and the decision it has taken with this sale is a testament to this commitment. While this painting will be missed, the museum is fortunate to hold eight further Schiele cityscapes of superb quality in its collection.”
    Schiele, who died in the great flu of 1918 aged 28, loosely based this painting on Krumau, the town in Southern Bohemia where his mother was born.  He and his lover Walburga (Wally) Neuzil moved there in 1911, in order to escape what they perceived as the claustrophobic atmosphere of Vienna (ironically, they were soon driven out of the town by the residents, who strongly disapproved of their liberal lifestyle, and returned to the environs of Vienna a year later).
    Häuser mit bunter Wäsche, “Vorstadt” II  comes to the auction market for the first time with an estimate of £22-30 million.
    UPDATE:  IT MADE £24,681,250, a world record for the artist.

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    CHRISTIE’S IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN ART EVENING SALE MAKES $155,995,000

    May 5th, 2011

    Monet's Les Peupliers made $22,482,500 at Christie's in New York against an estimate of $20/30 million.

    Paysage de banlieue by Maurice de Vlaminck made $22,482,500 at Christie's against an estimate of £18/25 million.

    Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Les femmes d'Alger, version L made $21,362,500 including buyer's premium at Christie's. It was estimated at $20/30 million.

    Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art evening sale of 57 lots in New York on May 4 brought in $155,995,000.  It was 82% sold by lot and 81% by value.

    Monet’s Les Peupliers, the joint top lot in this auction, sold at Christie’s in 2000 for $7 million.  It was one of  the three lots pictured here which sold above $20 million.  A new world auction record was set for Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) for his 1905 Fauvist landscape Paysage de Banlieue.

    There were four lots sold at over $10 million, and 19 over $1 million. Buyers were 47% European, 36% American, 4% Asian and 13% other. (See antiquesandartireland.com posts for April 19 and March 26).

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