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    • ART FORTNIGHT IN LONDON

    February 7th, 2011

    Georges Braque (1882-1963) Nature morte à la guitare (rideaux rouge) signed and dated 'G.Braque 38' is estimated at £3.5-£5.5 million. (click to enlarge) UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR £3.9 MILLION

    Hundreds of millions of pounds worth of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art will change hands in London this fortnight.  Two weeks of major art sales in London begin on  February 8.  It is anticipated that the market recovery will see more than £400m spent on art in the coming days

    Sotheby’s kick off with  with an evening sale of impressionist and modern art and continue into next week with contemporary works. Their 42-lot evening session is estimated at £55-£79 million.  This sale  includes the most expensive lot of the week, Picasso’s “La Lecture”. The high estimate of this portrait of his lover Marie-Thérèse dated 1932 is £18 million. Sotheby’s other evening sale, on Thursday, February 10, is a private collection estimated at £39-£55 million.
    At Christie’s there is an estimate of £73-£109 million for the the Impressionist and Modern  and the Art of the Surreal sales on February 9. This is the second highest pre-sale estimate for the February Impressionist sales at Christie’s in London. The highlight is Nature morte à “L’Espérance”, a still life painted by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) in 1901 while he was living in Tahiti. It is expected to realise £7-£10 million. (See antiquesandartireland.com for January 7) The sale includes four works to be sold by the Art Institute of Chicago (two Picasso’s, a Braque and a Matisse), and will feature the artists Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Fernand Léger.
    Self-portraits by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat will star in contemporary-art auctions in London set to raise at least 72.5 million pounds ($116 million).

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    BACON STUDIES FOR A PORTRAIT OF LUCIAN FREUD AT SOTHEBY’S

    February 5th, 2011

    Bacon's study for a portrait of Lucian Freud (click on images to enlarge)


    Francis Bacon’s Three Studies for a portrait of Lucian Freud features at a sale at Sotheby’s on February 10.  On offer is an exceptional private collection of 60 European modern and contemporary works collected over 30 years.  Along with the Bacon (estimated at £7-9 million) it includes work by Salvador Dalí, Amedeo Modigliani, Alberto Giacometti, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, Lucian Freud, Alexander Calder and Eduardo Chillida.
    UPDATE: The Bacon headlined Sotheby’s Evening Auction ‘Looking Closely – A Private Collection’. Three Studies for a Portrait of Lucian Freud, made the outstanding sum of £23,001,250/$37,004,411 –triple the pre-sale estimate. More than ten bidders from four continents competed for this exceptional and intimate artwork, before it finally sold after 7 minutes to an anonymous buyer in the room.

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    DOLANS IRISH ART AT CLONTARF CASTLE

    February 4th, 2011

    The drawing room is the title of this oil on board by Norman Teeling from Dolan's sale at Clontarf Castle. It is estimated at 800/1,200. (click to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE 1,250

    The Dolan’s auction at Clontarf Castle

    Among the more unusual lots at the sale art pattern books of watercolour floral designs from the Coalport China Company. This one is estimated at 80-120. (click to enlarge) UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 80 EURO

    in Dublin on Sunday, February 6 at 4 p.m. will feature around 250 lots of affordable Irish art.  Most lots, including over 30 works from the studio of artist Norman Teeling, will be sold entirely without reserve.

    UPDATE: The Teelings all sold for prices from around 500 to 1,900, the top lot was a Victorian oil on canvas of Killarney by Bartholomew Collis Watkins which made 5,500, Frank McKelvey’s Bringing Home the Cattle made 4,500, Sean O’Sullivan’s Harbour on Aran sold for 4,250, an Italian beach scene by Arthur Maderson made 4,000, as did an oil on canvas by Charles Harper and Banjo Player and Friends by John Vallely.

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    CHRIS de BURGH TO SELL HIS REDS

    February 3rd, 2011

    Christie’s will offer stock from the private cellar of Chris de Burgh at a wine sale in London on March 24.  Apparently the ladies in the life of the Irish singer songwriter, who had a worldwide hit with Lady in Red, no longer like reds. The ladies in question are his wife Diane and his daughter, the former 2003 Miss World Rosanna Davison.

    The sale comprises  320 bottles and 84 magnums of wine, principally red, and is estimated to make around £200,000. It follows the auction of 746 lots from Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s private wine collection at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong during January, which raised a total of US$5.6m.
    The sale features a variety of rare wines from his home in Ireland where they were carefully stored in a specially constructed temperature controlled wine room and purpose built cabinets.
    Chris de Burgh’s long love affair with wine began whilst wine waiting at his parents’ castle hotel in South East Ireland as a teenager – a guest asked him to try the bottle of Château d’Yquem he’d ordered, and the special moment has stayed with him to this day. However, due to an intense touring and recording schedule, it was not until the early 1980s that he was able to find the time to start seriously collecting wine himself.
    The highest value lot in the sale is a vertical collection of 62 magnums of Château Mouton-Rothschild, vintages 1945-2005 (estimate: £70,000-90,000)

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    IRISH ART PRICED TO SELL AT CORK SALE

    February 3rd, 2011

    Idrone II is the title of this oil on paper by Cecil King. Signed and dated 1980 with the Oliver Dowling Gallery label it is estimated at !,000-1,500. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: IT WAS WITHDRAW AT 800

    The first Morgan O’Driscoll Irish art sale of 2011 takes place at the Radisson Hotel, Little Island, Cork on Monday February 7 at 6.30 p.m.
    This 285 lot sale features everything from a watercolour landscape by Frank McKelvey to abstract prints by Sean Scully, interior scenes by Liam Treacy and a nude by Markey Robinson. There is work by the ever popular Arthur Maderson and Viva Nicaragua is the title of a mixed media piece by Robert Ballagh.
    There is an affordable oil on paper by Cecil King and many works by highly collectable artists including Brian Ballard, Barrie Castle, Erskine Nicholl, Pauline Bewick, Kenneth Webb, George Campbell, Charles Brady, Ciaran Lennon and Sean McSweeney,
    The more expensively estimated lots include Markey Robinson’s large landscape, The Coastal Village (14,000-18,00),  the British artist William Gibbs McKenzie (1857-1924). “Street scene with newspaper vendors and boys playing a game of spinner” (10,000-15,000), Harry Kernoff’s Bellevue Park Steps (5,000-7,000), Mark O’Neill’s The
    Committee (7,000-9,000),  John Shinnors Bus Stop, White House (5,000-7,000), Kenneth Webb’s Rock Pool, Connemara (12,000-15,000), Liam O’Neill’s Portrait of a Man ( 8,000-10,000) and a bronze by F.E. MacWilliams entitled Lying Down Girl (12,000-15,000). This is a sale where art is priced to sell with many lots to be sold without

    reserve.

    UPDATE: The auction was 71 per cent sold and brought in 219,000 exclusive of fees.  Markey Robinson’s Coastal Village was withdrawn at 12,000, the William Gibbs McKenzie made 10,000., Harry Kernoff’s Bellvue Park Steps was withdrawn, Mark O’Neill’s The Committee made 6,300, Liam O’Neill’s portrait of a man failed to sell and F.E. MacWilliams Lying Down Girl made 11,000.

    See antiquesandartireland.com post for January 25.

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    SOTHEBY’S IRISH SALE ON MARCH 29

    February 2nd, 2011

    Lavery's portrait of Lady Gwendoline Churchill (click to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE £121,250

    Sotheby’s 17th annual Irish sale in London on March 29 brings together quality Irish artworks from all corners of the globe.  It features art from a range of dates and stylistic movements and focuses attention on the richness of Ireland’s longstanding artistic output.

    Paysage by Roderic O'Conor at Sotheby's. (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE £337,250

    Sir John Lavery’s portrait of Lady Gwendoline Churchill (estimated at £100,000-£150,000)  has come from a private UK collection, where it has been for several generations.  It depicts the sister in law of Winston Churchill.
    Paysage by Roderic O’Conor is estimated at £120,00-£180,000.  It has re-surfaced from an American private collection and Sotheby’s say it is one of his most accomplished Fauvist landscapes to appear at auction.
    Other highlights include work by Basil Blackshaw, Colin Middleton, Sean Scully, William Scott and Louis le Brocquy.

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    GOOGLE ART PROJECT ENABLES VIRTUAL TOUR

    February 2nd, 2011
    Google’s Art Project, which is just launched, is a collaboration with 17 international museums, including the Met in New York, the Hermitage in St Petersburg, the Uffizi in Florence, and the National Gallery in London, to enable viewers take a virtual tour using “Street View” technology.
    Each institution has nominated a single piece as a “Gigapixel Artwork” which produces an electronic image containing 7 billion pixels, allowing viewers to study a work like Botticelli’s Birth of Venus or Holbein’s Ambassadors in microscopic detail.

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    PORTRAIT OF BACON HEADS BONHAMS IRISH SALE

    February 1st, 2011
    An image of Francis Bacon (1909– 1992) the artists known for his bold, austere, graphic and emotionally raw imagery, heads Bonhams first Irish Art Sale in London on February 9.  It is the work of Bacon’s friend and fellow painter, Louis Le Brocquy, Ireland’s foremost living artist.
    The watercolour  is estimated to sell for £60,000 to £80,000.  Although he painted Bacon several times, trying to capture “the Baconness of Bacon”, this example is more representational than most.
    Speaking about his art Louis Le Brocquy says: “Contrary to a generally held view, I think that painting is not in any direct sense a means of communication or a means of self-expression. When you are painting you are trying to discover, to uncover, to reveal. I sometimes think of the activity of painting as a kind of archaeology – an archaeology of the spirit.”
    See antiquesandartireland.com post for December 22

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    VALUATION DAYS AT JAMES ADAM

    February 1st, 2011

    Art and antique auctioneers James Adam intend to hold complimentary valuation days on the first Thursday of every month at their  premises at St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.  There will be a valuation on Thursday, Feburuary 3 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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    NEW AUCTION RECORD FOR TITIAN AT SOTHEBY’S

    January 27th, 2011

    Titian's A Sacre Conversazione (click on image to enlarge)

    There was a new auction record for Venetian Renaissance master Titian at Sotheby’s in New York on January 27.  A Sacra Conversazione: The Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria sold for $16,882,500 to a European private collector.  The painting is also known as The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine.  The price paid exceeded the previous record of $13.6 million, which had held for 20 years.  A Sacra Conversazione is one of only a handful of multi-figured compositions by Titian that remain in private hands, and is the most important to appear at auction in decades.

    See antiquesandartireland.com post for November 2, 2010

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