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    • IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN ART MAKES $170,478,000 AT SOTHEBY’S

    May 4th, 2011

    Picasso - Femmes Lisant

    Gauguin Jeune tahitienne

    Impressionist & Modern Art evening sale at Sotheby’s New York on May 3 made $170,478,000.  This was within but very much at the lower end of the overall estimate of $158.9-229.7 million. The 59 lot auction was 74.6% sold by lot, and saw a total of 37 works sell for over $1 million.
    The top lot was Pablo Picasso’s Femmes lisant (Deux personnages). It made $21,362,500 in a sale where auction records were established for the Surrealist artist Paul Delvaux and for a sculpture by Paul Gauguin. Jeune tahitienne sold for 11,282,500.  It was carved during Gauguin’s first trip to Tahiti between 1890 and 1893, and is the only fully-worked bust portrait the artist is known to have created. It marks the eighth highest price for any work by Gauguin at auction.

    PAUL DELVAUX 1897 - 1994 LES CARIATIDES

    Les Cariatides by Paul Delvaux from 1946 made $9,042,500 in a sale which saw strong prices for Surrealist works.

    The Expressionist Alexej von Jawlensky’s Frau mit grünem Fächer (Woman with a green fan) made $11,282,500, just under its high estimate of $12 million. This is the second highest price for a work by Jawlensky.  There were strong prices too for Magritte and Dali.  The art illustrated represents the top five highest prices for the sale.
    The Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale on May 5 at Sotheby’s in New York brought in $38,982,225.

    ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY 1864-1941 FRAU MIT GRÜNEM FÄCHER (WOMAN WITH A GREEN FAN)

    Picasso - COUPLE À LA GUITARE made $9.6 million.

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    INTERNATIONALISATION OF THE IRISH ANTIQUE AUCTION MARKET

    May 1st, 2011

    The internationalisation of the Irish antique and art market is becoming increasingly apparent. Sales at Sheppards, a long established Irish provincial auction house, reflect this changing market.  The three day sale at Sheppards in Durrow, Co. Laois on May 10, 11 and 12 offers much that is of interest to local, national and international buyers.

    In the past the advantage of the Durrow location was that it was on the main Dublin-Cork road and as a result was easily reached from many points in the country.  Nowadays because of the internet such sales are accessible to collectors everywhere.  From Durrow Sheppards enjoys a reach that is increasingly global.  Location is no longer the factor it used to be.  Sheppards, in common with a number of other Irish auction houses, now ship to everywhere.

    The on-line catalogue is available on their website.  Here are a few of the lots coming up in May.

    See antiquesandartireland.com post for April 28.

    This George III mahogany Chippendale silver table is estimated at 8,000-12,000. (click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: IT MADE A HAMMER PRICE OF 9,500

    A large George III Irish brass bound plate bucket is estimated at 2,500-3,500. (click to enlarge) UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,600 AT HAMMER

    After Sir Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Denis Daly, Oil on canvas, Provenance: Russborough House, Co. Wicklow is estimated at 2,000-3,000. (Click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: THIS MADE 4,300 at hammer

    Samuel Spode, Jockey on horseback, Oil on canvas estimate 3,200-4,200. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,700 at hammer

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    EARLIEST RULES OF CLUB FOOTBALL TO BE SOLD BY SHEFFIELD AT SOTHEBY’S

    May 1st, 2011
    The earliest rules of club football will be sold by Sotheby’s in London on July 14.  The document is part of the archive of the world’s oldest football club, Sheffield FC which was established in 1857.   They are estimated at  £800,000-£1,200,000.  The  lot  includes  both  the  original handwritten  draft  rules  (1858)  and  the  only  known  surviving  copy  of  the  printed  Rules,  Regulations,  &  Laws  of  the  Sheffield  Foot?Ball  Club  (1859).
    The  1858  rules  promoted  a  passing   game  played  with  the  feet, and included  the  free  kick,  throw-in, goal  kick,  restrictions  on  handling the ball, and  the  banning  of  “hacking  or  tripping”.   The archive, which sheds light on the world’s first  vibrant  football  culture in Sheffield  in  the  1860’s, comprises club minute books.  These are from the 1850’s and ’60’s.  There is a volume of match reports from the early 1860’s.
    Chairman  of  Sheffield  Football  Club,  Richard  Tims,  commented:  “The  sale  of this  remarkable  piece  of  sporting  history  will  allow  Sheffield  Football  Club  to  develop  its  facilities  and  secure  its  future  as  the  home  of  grass?roots  football.
    In New York last December Sotheby’s sold James Naismith’s Founding Rules of Basketball from December 1891. The two page typed document, which was tacked up in a Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA gym, made $4.4 million dollars including buyer’s premium.
    UPDATE:  THE earliest rules of club football – sold as part of the historic archive of the world’s oldest football club, Sheffield – fetched £881,250  setting a record at auction for any item of football memorabilia. It was bought by an anonymous telephone bidder.

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    SOME LOTS FROM MEALY’S SALE ON MAY 4

    May 1st, 2011
    More than 800 lots will come under the hammer at Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny on May 4. The fine and decorative art sale at Mealy’s will include 18th, 19th and 20th century furniture; contemporary Irish paintings;  silver and plate;  bronzes;  clocks and barometers; carpets and rugs; jewellery; light fittings; overmantels; porcelain and a single owner collection of whiskeys, brandy and other liquors.
    Here is a sample. The catalogue is on-line.
    See antiquesandartireland.com post for April 27.
    UPDATE: Around 35 per cent of lots remained unsold, which is higher than usual.  On an overall tough day the sale brought in a figure close to 150,000.  Garden furniture, silver and the alcohol collection sold well,  trading conditions were difficult for furniture and paintings.

    This c1900 mahogany bureau by Edwards and Roberts with satinwood and kingwood banding and profuse inlay is estimated at 4,000-6,000. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    A c1900 Gothic style pitch pine writing table with tooled leather top is estimated at just 200-300. UPDATE: THIS MADE 200

    A west of Ireland watercolour by William Percy French (1854 - 1920) is estimated at 2,500-3,500. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    An old oak drop-leaf gateleg table with frieze drawer is estimated at 300-400. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

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    DILLON’S SPANISH FISHING VILLAGE AT CORK ART SALE

    April 30th, 2011
    A total of 289 lots of mostly Irish art will be offered at the Morgan O’Driscoll fine art sale at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Cork on May 9.  Internationally celebrated  artists Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol are represented by limited edition prints.  The most expensively estimated lot on offer is Gerard Dillon’s Spanish fishing village which is estimated at 20,000-25,000.
    There are prime works by Markey Robinson, William Conor, Maurice Wilks, William Crozier, Colin Watson, Mark O’Neill, Dan O”Neill, James Humbert Craig and Sean McSweeney.
    Here is a small selection.  The entire catalogue is on-line.
    UPDATE:  Around 68 per cent of lots were sold.  The top lot was was William Conor’s Music Session, a work with crayon which made 13,500.

    Gerard Dillon RHA RUA (1916-1971) Spanish Fishing Village, estimate 20,000-25,000. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: IT WAS UNSOLD

    Damien Hirst (20th /21st Century) Cephalothin 2007 Limited edition print 68/75, estimate 6,000-8,000. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: IT WAS UNSOLD

    Markey Robinson (1918-1999) Dockyard, estimate 10,000-12,500. (click to enlarge) UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 10,000

    Andy Warhol €1928-1987) British Speedskater Unique screenprint on Artches 88 paper Edition:TP 14/15, estimate 10,000-15,000. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: IT WAS UNSOLD

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    ART FROM THE OLD SOVIET UNION ON SALE IN DUBLIN

    April 29th, 2011

    The advance party by Shurupov (click to enlarge)

    THE Russian art collection of an Irish businessman who used to travel in the old Soviet Union goes on sale at Kilternan Art Gallery in Co. Dublin from April 30. The collection of 66 works includes landscapes, still lives and portaits.

    All were produced during the period from the 1920’s to the 1980’s, a time when artists in Soviet Russia underwent a rigorous training.  The price range is from 200 to 4,500 euro.  About two thirds of the work on offer is at or under 400 euro.

    Hosted by Brian Merry the sale continues until Sunday May 8.  Opening times are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day.

    The picture on the right by Konstantin Alekseevich Shurupov (1910-1985) is titled The Advance Party.  It is dated c1965 and the original gallery exhibition label is on the back.

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    WHEN LUCIAN MET BRENDAN: PHOTOGRAPHIC RARITIES AT SHEPPARDS SALE IN DURROW

    April 28th, 2011

    Lucian Freud and Brendan Behan, Dublin 1952 (click to enlarge) UPDATE: THIS MADE 850

    Bill Brandt's 1947 image of the northern quays, Dublin. (click to enlarge) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    Three centuries of period furniture, fine art, garden statuary, seating and planters feature at Sheppards three day sale of outstanding interiors and exteriors  on May 10, 11 and 12 at Durrow, Co. Laois.
    The sale on Thursday, May 12 is of 300 lots of Asian art.
    Photographic rarities on offer include this image by Daniel Farson of the artist Lucian Freud and the writer Brendan Behan in front of the Mansion House in Dublin.  Dated August 1952 the print is signed and stamped.  It is estimated at 800-1,200.
    The second image is of the northern quays, Dublin circa 1947.  The silver gelatin print is a view from the Ha’penny Bridge extending west towards the Four Courts.  It is estimated at 1,200-1,600.
    It is one of two Dublin photographs taken by Bill Brandt in Dublin on offer at Sheppards on May 10.  Brandt’s work is to be found in museums like the Victoria and Albert in London, MoMA in New York and the Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris.  The second image by Brandt is of the now deconsecrated St. George’s Church at Hardwicke Place designed by Francis Johnson.  Johnson donated the bells of St. George’s which are heard chiming by Leopold Bloom in James Joyce’s Ulysses.

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    RARELY SEEN PICASSO MASTERPIECE AT CHRISTIE’S

    April 27th, 2011

    Picasso's Jeune femme endormie at Christie's. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE £13,481,250.

    A rarely seen masterpiece by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) will feature at Christie’s sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in London in June.  Jeune fille endormie, 1935, is an intimate portrait of the artist’s lover Marie-Thérèse Walter, the subject many of Picasso’s most celebrated pictures, and is expected to make £9 million to £12 million.

    The painting was given to the University of Sydney in 2010 by an anonymous donor on condition that it would be sold and that the University would dedicate the proceeds to scientific research.
    The sale takes place on the evening of June 21.  It is the first time this portrait will be offered at auction.
    UPDATE: IT MADE £13,481,250

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    DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER AND POSTERS CAN BE FUN

    April 27th, 2011

    Diamonds are Forever concept artwork (left), detail (centre) and the final poster design (right).

    Diamonds are Forever and posters are pretty important too.  The original concept artwork for the poster campaign of the 1971 James Bond classic Diamonds Are Forever hand-painted by Robert McGinnis leads Christie’s sale of Vintage Film Posters in London on June 15. The unique prototype offers a rare chance to own an exceptional piece of James Bond memorabilia.  It is estimated at £18,000-24,000.

    The auction spans nine decades of film making with over 300 lots of promotional material. As well as James Bond posters, Dr. No through to Never Say Never Again, a rare advance British quad for Thunderball, 1965 (£6,000-9,000), original concept artwork for View to A Kill, 1985 (£4,000-6,000), and the final poster design used for  the Eon/United Artists production Diamonds are Forever (£300-500), the sale features cinematic genres from Film Noir to Disney.

    The selection includes Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour, 1967 (£300-500), Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1961 (£1,500-2,500), Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958 (£300-500), Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita, 1959 (£4,000-6,000), as well as Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Lauren Bacall and many more.

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    ENGLISH ROYAL WEDDING, IRISH AUCTION, FRENCH BRANDY

    April 27th, 2011

    Stiff drink anyone? (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: THIS MADE 220

    A 30 year old bottle of French brandy commemorating an English Royal wedding features at an Irish auction in May.
    Lot 469 at Mealy’s sale of fine and decorative art at Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny on May 4 is a Limoges container of Cognac Camus modelled as a book to commemorate the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana on July 29, 1981.  There are separate colour photos and drawings of the star crossed pair on the front and colour crests of the Prince and Princess of Wales on the back.  This limited edition – La Grande Marque No. 602 – is estimated at 120-180 euro.
    The 831 lot sale features furniture, paintings, jewellery, clocks, carpets, rugs, bronzes, overmantles, porcelain and a collection whiskeys and brandies.

    Markey Robinson (1918 - 1999) “Still Life with Jugs, or Flowers by the Sea,” at Mealy's. It is estimated at 3,000-4,000. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.

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