Posts Tagged ‘art’
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary art evening sale in
New York on November 10 includes acclaimed masterpieces by
Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons and
Mark Rothko as well as one of the finest examples from
Gerhard Richter’s revered Candle Paintings Series. Christie’s will sell the major estates on offer this season —the collections of computing pioneer Max Palevsky, actor Dennis Hopper, gallerist and taste-maker Robert Shapazian and philanthropic art collector Nancy Epstein. This auction is estimated to realize upwards of $240 million.
“This sale contains the high quality, rarity and provenance that creates fireworks at auction,” Robert Manley of Christie’s New York remarked.
“Collectors are vying for the best works by the major artists of the last sixty years and Christie’s evening sale is loaded with museum masterpieces.”
Tags: art, Christie's, contemporary, Koons, Lichtenstein, new york, Richter, Rothko, Warhol
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Monday, October 25th, 2010
The Lee by Sunday's Well by John Claude Bosanquet. It is estimated at 2,000-4,000. (click to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE 1,800
THE Woodwards autumn sale of silver and art on November 3 will feature 140 lots
A silver tea set by William Egan. It is estimated at 3,000-5,000. (click to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE 2,000
of silver and 60 of art. Irish silver on offer includes a three piece tea service on tray by William Egan of Cork and a 1771 silver salver by John Locker, Dublin. There are pieces by Irish makers including Carden Terry, John Dalrymple, Mathew West, James le Bas, Robert Breading, Richard Sawyer, Samuel Neville, William Bateman, Philip Weekes, William Cummins, Joseph Kinselagh, John Fountain and Charles Townsend.
The art sale features a private Cork collection put together over 40 a period of years including a 19th century watercolour by John Claude Bosanquet of the River Lee by Sunday’s Well, Cork. The sale is on Wednesday, November 3 at 6 p.m.
UPDATE: WOODWARDS were generally happy with this sale and sold a high percentage of lots. However, the hammer came down at or below the low estimates.
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Blue Bottle and Apples by Camille Souter, estimated at 7,000-10,000. (click to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE 14,000
Clouds at Sunset by Paul Henry, estimated at 30,000-50,000. (click to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE 55,000
Cecil King, Baggot St. Series exhibited at Cork Rosc 1980, estimated at 4,000-6,000. (click to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE 3,200
Patrick Graham self-portrait, estimated at 2,000-4,000. (click to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE 4,600
THESE WORKS FROM THE BANK OF IRELAND ART COLLECTION WILL BE OFFERED AT ADAMS IN DUBLIN ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24. THERE WILL BE 155 LOTS IN THE SALE.
SEE POST ON antiquesandartireland.com FOR OCTOBER 13.
The Liffey Upstream by Barrie Cooke, estimated at 3,000-5,000. (click to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE 4,200.
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
A Gerard Dillon work from the Bank of Ireland collection (click to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE 50,000
A fascinating auction of Irish art with a strong emphasis on the 1970’s is due to come under the hammer at James Adam in Dublin on November 24. This is the first of what will be a series of sales in
A le Brocquy head from the Bank of Ireland collection (click to enlarge) UPDATE: IT MADE 50,000
coming years of the Bank of Ireland Art Collection.
Long before the foundation of the
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) the bank developed one of the largest and most impressive corporate collections in the country. Bank of Ireland started to collect
Irish art in the 1970’s and won a European award in 1978 for the quality of its collection. In latter years the group donated significant pieces, including its only work by
Yeats, a late oil entitled Eileen Aroon, to IMMA.
Proceeds from the first major Irish corporate collection to be sold will go to charity. Overall the collection of around 2,000 works is valued at between four and five million euro. The rest of the collection is to be auctioned piecemeal over a number of years.
When putting together the lots for this first sale Adams set out to be comprehensive. “We wanted to be representative of what was in the collection and to ensure there would not be a large number of works by one particular artist”, Adams Director Stuart Cole said. Highlights are to go on view at the Ava Gallery, Clandeboye, Belfast from October 21 to November 11, and around 50 works will be toured to the
Glucksman Gallery in Cork from October 28 to October 31. The entire sale will be on view at James Adam in Dublin from November 20 until the auction on Wednesday, November 24.
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Monday, October 11th, 2010
Sotheby’s will offer
Francis Bacon’s Figure In Movement in New York in November. This is the most significant Bacon painting to appear at auction in several seasons. The 1985 portrait of a man twisting and writhing, demonstrates the artist’s genius in painting the human figure in motion. It was given by Bacon to his doctor in the year it was painted.
Figure In Movement has been in the same collection ever since. It featured in the 2008 landmark exhibition Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art which began at
Tate Britain. It was also shown at the
Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid. The painting has been on extended loan to Tate Britain for the past decade. It comes up at
Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on November 9, 2010 in New York. It is estimated to sell for $7/10 million.
UPDATE: It sold for $14,082,500 including buyer’s premium.
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Sunday, October 10th, 2010
The Bog Road by Paul Henry estimated at 40,000-60,000. (click to enlarge) UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR 72,000
St. John's Point Lighthouse and Cliffs by Stephen McKenna estimated at 4,000-6,000. (click to enlarge) UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR 3,800
THESE works of art are among the 141 offerings at the James Adam sale of Irish art in Dublin on Wednesday October 13 at 6 p.m. Estimates are considerably lower than would have been the case a couple of years ago.
The most expensively estimated paintings are Nathanial Hill’s Breton Peasants at a convent door (1884) estimated at 50,000-70,000, John Shinnors Over the Island, Coastal Composition 2007 estimated at 50,000-70,000 and Paul Henry’s The Bog Road estimated at 40,000-60,000. This is a sale with something for everyone and estimates from 400 euro up. The Hill work made 45,000, a new record for the artist, the Henry sold for 72,000 and the Shinnors failed to sell.
Daughter of Lir c1923 by Joseph Higghs, estimated at 15,000-20,000. (click to enlarge) UPDATE: IT REMAINED UNSOLD
Golgotha Good Friday by Tony O'Malley, estimated at 10,000-15,000. (click to enlarge) UPDATE: IT WAS UNSOLD
UPDATE: This turned out to be a very successful sale which achieved a 74 per cent sold rate, higher than had been achieved in other Irish art auctions of late.
It brought in a hammer price of 460,000, which amounts to more than 550,000 when fees are added.
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Sunday, October 10th, 2010
English Setter at work by Grace Cunningham (click to enlarge)
Clonegal Corot by Mark O'Neill (click to enlarge)
Treasures Irish Art in Athlone are regular attenders at Hibernian Antique Fairs around the country. Among the newly acquired fresh to the market paintings they are bringing to current fairs are Clonegal Corot by Mark O’Neill and English Setter at Work by Grace Cunningham.
Hibernian Antique Fairs will be at the West County Hotel, Ennis, Co. Clare on Sunday November 17, at the Carlton Hotel, Tralee, Co. Kerry on Sunday October 31 and at the Park Hotel, Roscommon on Sunday November 7. Fairs runs each day from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
This Irish wine cistern sold for 55,000.
THE top lot at the James Adam Country House Collections sale at Slane Castle was an unusual George III Irish oval gilt brass bound wine cistern. It made 55,0000 in a sale which realised over one million euro.
The riding crop of the Empress Sisi made 37,000 (see antiquesandartireland.com post for September 21). The Empress of Austria’s riding crop had been estimated at 3,000-5,000. The underbidder was Viennese and the crop, with its pommel in the shape of an Imperial Crown, was sold to a buyer in the Channel Islands.
Lot 173, a pair of 19th century large Mei-Ping shaped vases made 42,000 over an estimate of 600-800. A William Moore side table made 20,000 and a George II Irish carved mahogany side table with Kilkenny marble top made 27,000.
The folio by Catherine Gage of The Birds of Rathlin made 13,500 and the aggregate total for a series of eleven wash and ink artworks by Caroline Hamilton (1771-1861) was 23,000.
James Adam managing director James O’Halloran said he was very happy with the result.
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Coastal Landscape with Trees and Cottage by Colin Middleton made 27,000 at Whyte's in Dublin.
Byzantine Madonna, 1934 by Harry Kernoff made 7,400 at Whyte's.
Colin Middleton’s Coastal Landscape with Trees and Cottage, 1937 was the top lot at the Whyte’s Irish and British art sale in Dublin on October 4.
The sale realised 360,000 and around 60 per cent of the 263 lots on offer found buyers. A collection of works by Jack B. Yeats from a sketchbook made up the first 40 lots. All found buyers and brought new purchasers to the salesroom.
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Henri Matisse’s Back IV (Nu de Dos, 4eme état), a monumental bronze from the most celebrated and ambitious sculptural series of the artist’s career, will lead the Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on November 3. Matisse’s Back series of four life-sized relief sculptures is featured in major museums collections around the world, including the Tate Gallery in London, MOMA in New York, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
The upcoming sale marks the first time that any of these colossal bronzes has appeared at auction. Christie’s expects Back IV, the final, definitive statement in this sequence of progressively abstracted female figures, to fetch $25,000,000-35,000,000. Of the twelve bronze casts that were made of this culminating relief, the work to be offered is one of only two examples remaining in private hands. As the most starkly refined and highly architectural of the Back reliefs, Back IV divides the female form into three nearly symmetrical zones, with the woman’s head, hair and spine fused into a startlingly stripped-down columnar figure at center of the work.
UPDATE; IT MADE $48.8 MILLION
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