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    • SOME BAUBLES FROM O’REILLY’S NEXT ANTIQUE JEWELLERY SALE

    February 23rd, 2011

    A diamond and sapphire cluster ring. (click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: IT MADE 16,000.

    These are some of the lots that feature at the O’Reilly’s auction at Francis St., Dublin on Wednesday, March 2.  The sapphire and diamond cluster ring is estimated at 17,000-18,000, the target ring is estimated at 6,500-7,500, the amethyst and diamond brooch is estimated at 1,200-1,500 and the Art Deco diamond and sapphire plaque brooch is estimated 4,500-5,000.

    The sale features around 290 lots of jewellery as well as silver and fine art.

    An antique diamond target ring at O'Reilly's on March 2. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE 6,400

    An amethyst and diamond brooch modelled as a bow at O'Reilly's. (click on image to enlarge) UDATE: IT MADE 1,200

    An Art Deco diamond and sapphire plaque brooch. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE 4,500

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    DEATH OF ARTIST T.P. FLANAGAN

    February 23rd, 2011

    This 2009 watercolour by T.P. Flanagan is entitled "A Fermanagh Field". (click on image to enlarge)

    The death has taken place of the artist T. P. Flanagan. Born in Enniskillen in 1929 he was one of the most important and influential landscape painters of his generation. He once commented that, as a young man, he had hesitated to paint the Irish landscape because so many artists such as Paul Henry, J. H. Craig and Frank McKelvey had put such an indelible stamp upon it that there was nothing more to be said. Yet he put his own stamp on the landscapes of counties Fermanagh and Sligo.

    Flanagan worked thematically, a device that enabled him to present his subjects from more than one point of view.  This gives an image not just of his subjects but of his relationship to them and his feelings. In 1995 the Ulster Museum held a retrospective exhibition of Flanagan’s career.  That show  travelled to the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin and Fermanagh County Museum in Enniskillen.

    He studied painting and etching at the then Belfast College of Art from 1949 to 1953 alongside fellow students like Basil Blackshaw and Kenneth Jamison.  He worked both as a teacher and a painter for many years. His work has been exhibited widely in one-man and group exhibitions in Ireland and abroad.  He was an academician of the Royal Hibernian Academy and a Past President of the Royal Ulster Academy.  T.P. Flanagan is represented by the Taylor Galleries in Dublin.

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    PATRICK HENNESSY PORTRAITS AT WHYTE’S

    February 23rd, 2011

    Self portrait by Patrick Hennessy at Whyte's. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,200

    A brace of portraits by Patrick Hennessy RHA (1915-1980) grace Whyte’s Irish and British art sale at the RDS in Dublin on March 14.  One is a self portrait from 1936 exhibited at a Birmingham exhibition sponsored by Winsor and Newton Ltd.  It is inscribed with an exhibition label with the artist’s address [9 Bridge Street, Arbroath, Angus] and price [£7-7-0] on reverse. It is now estimated at €2,500-€3,500.

    The second is a 1939 portrait of Liv Hempel, daughter of the German Ambassador to Ireland. It was made at De Vesci Terrace in Dun Laoghaire, the ministerial residence of Eduard Hempel (1887–1972) who was Adolf Hitler’s representative in Dublin between 1937 and 1945.  During his eight year tenure Hempel sent thousands of reports to Berlin by telegraph and shortwave radio.  He had to surrender the transmitter in December 1943 at the insistence of the Department of External Affairs, and under pressure from the United States and United Kingdom.  Hempel was granted asylum in Ireland at the end of the war. He returned to Germany in 1949.  This portrait is estimated at €2,000-€3,000.

    Liv Hempel by Patrick Hennessy at Whyte's. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: THIS MADE 4,800

    The artist Patrick Hennessy was born in Co. Cork. He won a scholarship to Dundee College of Art and a further scholarship allowed him study in Paris and Rome.   In 1939, he exhibited a self-portrait and a still-life at the Royal Scottish Academy and returned to Ireland as a professional painter, dividing his time between Cork and Dublin. In 1956, Hennessy had his first solo exhibition in London, displaying nearly 40 paintings, including several portraits. In 1957, the Ritchie Hendriks Gallery staged an exhibition of his flower paintings. More shows followed in Dublin, Chicago and Cork. Meantime, Hennessy continued to make trips abroad. He made regular visits to Paris, Normandy, the Dordogne, as well as Belgium, Holland and Spain. He also toured Italy and Greece.
    Farewell to Ireland by Patrick Hennessy which shows President John F. Kennedy boarding Air Force One at Shannon Airport on June 29th, 1963 after a visit to his ancestral homeland is currently on sale at the M.S. Rau Gallery in New Orleans priced at $98,950.
    His work is in a number of public and private collections, including: University College, Dublin; Hugh Lane Art Gallery; Irish Museum of Modern Art; National Gallery of Ireland; Office of Public Works; Crawford Art Gallery; Limerick City Art Gallery and Limerick University National Self-Portrait Collection.
    (See antiquesandartireland.com post for January 27)
    UPDATE:  THE PAINTINGS SOLD FOR 2,200 AND 4,800 RESPECTIVELY.

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    STELLAR LINE UP AT SOTHEBY’S IRISH SALE

    February 21st, 2011

    Beckett by le Brocquy at Sotheby's. (Click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: It made £75,650

    THERE is a stellar line up at Sotheby’s Irish Sale in London on March 29. It features rare works never seen on the market before by artists like Sir John Lavery, Roderic O’Conor and Mary Swanzy.  There are 13 works by Louis le Brocquy and the sale includes Basil Blackshaw,  John Shinnors, William Scott, Colin Middleton and Sean Scully.

    John Lavery’s portrait of Lady Gwendoline Churchill, A Lady in Brown, is at auction for the first time.  It is believed the painting was probably executed in the summer of 1915. O’Conor’s Landscape, Cassis, has re-surfaced from a private American collection and features one of the smaller peaks of the limestone cliffs of Le Cap Canail.
    Sunlit Landscape by Mary Swanzy is a dazzling modernist piece.   It is  part  of  a  series  of  lyrical  Provencal  cubist  landscapes produced following a stay at Grasse in the South of France in the winter of 1926-1927 and is estimated at £60,000-80,000.
    Daniel  O’Neill  is  represented  in  the  sale  with  one  of  the  most expressive  and  affecting  works  by  the  artist  to  ever  appear  at auction.  On  Reading  Dear  Theo  is  a  portrait  of  Vincent  van
    Gogh.  The  composition  and  treatment  clearly  reference  van  Gogh’s landscapes.  It is estimated  at  £30,000-50,000.  Headlining the le Brocquy works is an image of Samuel Beckett (Opus  473),  an
    oil  on  canvas  estimated  at  £60,000-80,000.
    There is a group of four still lives by William Scott and the art auction offers a strong selection of contemporary works.
    See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for February 16 and February 2.

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    IRISH WOMEN ARTISTS AT SHEPPARDS MARCH AUCTION

    February 20th, 2011

    Cherry Brandon (1931-2007) mixed media on silk. (click to enlarge) UPDATE: THIS PIECE DID NOT SELL.

    Eva Hamilton (1880-1959), Interior with flowers on table. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: THIS PIECE DID NOT SELL

    Irish women artists Cherry Brandon and Eva Hamilton from successive generations feature at Sheppards two day sale in Durrow, Co. Laois.   Brandon, who was based in Co. Laois, worked as a media artist, international textile and fashion designer and illustrator.  Giorgio Armani was one of the people she worked for and the signed mixed media on silk illustrated on the left from her Banana Collection is a sample of her work for the noted Italian designer. It is estimated at 5,000-8,000 and is one of a number of her works in the sale.

    Eva Hamilton’s Interior with flowers on table also features on the first day of the auction.  Known for her portraits, landscapes and watercolours she was represented in the 1930 Exhibition of Irish Art at Brussels. The oil on canvas on the right is estimated at 2,000-3,000.

    The Sheppards sale, entitled Paradigms and the Unexpected, features jewellery, oriental rugs and carpets, prints, paintings, silver, porcelian and furniture.  It takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 1 and 2, at 10.30 a.m. on each day.

    UPDATE:  Sheppards had a successful auction at which about 85 per cent of the lots on offer found buyers.

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    FEBRUARY SALES AT CHRISTIE’S AND SOTHEBY’S AMOUNT TO £423.6 MILLION

    February 19th, 2011
    THE recovery in art market prices continued over the London selling season in February.  According to our calculations Sotheby’s and Christie’s sold £423.6 million worth of Impressionist, Modern, Contemporary, Post-War and Surreal art over the past fortnight.
    Aided by an incredible private owner sale entitled Looking Closely, with 60 works by some of the greatest of all modern and contemporary masters, Sotheby’s led with a sales total of  £242,109,075. This is the second highest total for any sales season ever held at Sotheby’s in London.  Their sales featured property from 39 countries and attracted buyers from 47 countries spanning 5 continents.  The total at Christie’s series of sales amounted to £181.5 million.
    These results support a growing view that the international recovery in art market prices can be sustained.

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    SELECTION FROM HEGARTY’S AUCTION IN BANDON

    February 19th, 2011

    Here is a sample of lots coming up at Hegarty’s sale in Bandon , Co. Cork on Sunday, February 27  at 4 p.m.  This is a sale of more than 350 lots including furntiure, art, ceramics, jewellery and silver.

    This Georgian knife box is estimated at 800-1,200. (click to enlarge)

    An early 20th century majolica stick stand with heron, estimated at 800-1,200. (click to enlarge)

    An Edwardian inlaid envelope foldover card table (1,000-1,500). Click to enlarge.

    This Wedgwood cheese dish and cover, with hairline crack to base, is estimated at 300-500. (click to enlarge)

    A Victorian walnut dome topped brass-bound stationery box estimated at 250-350. (click to enlarge)

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    Hoi An CARGO PIECES AT CO. CLARE SALE

    February 18th, 2011

    An opium box complete with certificate of authenticity. (click on image to enlarge)

    A number of items from the Hoi An cargo feature

    Hoi An bowl. (click on image to enlarge)

    at John Dunphy’s auction in Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare on February 22.  There are a couple of opium boxes, a blue and white ginger jar, a blue and while porcelain elephant, a monkey mother and baby and  a rice bowl among 1,000 lots.  All carry certificates of authenticity.

    Discovered in a shipwreck off Vietnam in the 1990’s much of the cargo was sold in San Francisco. Museum curators competed for the best pieces, but there was a lot on offer and some remained unsold.  Hoi An pieces regularly turn up on e-Bay. The pieces to be sold in Ireland range in estimate from 250 to 600.

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    SEAN SCULLY AT SOTHEBY’S CONTEMPORARY SALES

    February 18th, 2011

    Enter Yellow is the title of this 1999 work by Sean Scully (click on image to enlarge)

    Small Grey Wall by Scullly dates from 2002. (click on image to enlarge)

    Enter Yellow by the Irish artist Sean Scully made a hammer price of  £409,250 at Sotheby’s  Contemporary art evening auction in London on February 15.  It had been estimated at £300,000-500,000.

    The following day Scully, who draws inspiration from the low stone walls of the west of Ireland, had another work at Sotheby’s day sale.  His work entitled Small Grey Wall, signed and dated 2002, made a hammer price with buyer’s premium of £289,250.  It had been estimated at £200,000-300,000.

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    WARHOL SELF-PORTRAIT MAKES £10,793,250 AT CHRISTIE’S

    February 16th, 2011

    This Warhol self-portrait more than doubled its top estimate at Christie's. (click on image to enlarge). Picture courtesy of Christie's Images.

    A monumental-scale self-portrait by Andy Warhol (1928-1987) made £10,793,250 at Christie’s Post War and Contemporary Art evening sale in London on February 16. It had been estimated at £3-5 million.  In a private collection since 1974 this previously unpublished iconic work which dates to 1967 was recently discovered. It was bought by an anonymous bidder in the room.

    Warhol first used the image for a group of works in 1966, painted in a much smaller scale.  The following year he produced 11 monumental works in large scale six foot square format.   Six works from the series were shown at the American Pavilion at the 1967 Montreal Expo.

    The sale brought in £61,380,500 and was 92 per cent sold by lot.  It was the highest total for the category in London since June 2008.  The Warhol was the top lot and 16 lots sold for over one million pounds.  There were buyers from 21 different countries.  Six artists records were set, for Jenny Saville, Martial Raysse, Miquel Barcelo, Wade Guyton, Ged Quinn and Adriana Varejao.

    See antiquesandartireland.com post for January 11.

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