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    • Posts Tagged ‘GERALDINE O’BRIEN’

    STILL LIFE BY GERALDINE O’BRIEN AT O’DRISCOLL AUCTION

    Wednesday, June 26th, 2024

    GERALDINE M. O’BRIEN (1922-2014) – Still Life – Vase of Flowers. UPDATE: THIS MADE 380 AT HAMMER

    Still Life – Vase of Flowers by popular the Irish botanical illustrator Geraldine O’Brien is lot 8 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s off the wall online art auction which runs until July 2. The oil on canvas is estimated at 400-600. O’Brien lived at Parteen, a village close to Limerick city, and brought flowers from the garden to arrange her work. She exhibited regularly with the Royal Hibernian Academy. The catalogue for the sale is online.

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    O’BRIEN AND LE BROCQUY AT MORGAN O’DRISCOLL SALE

    Sunday, August 6th, 2023
    Vase of Flowers by Geraldine O’Brien  UPDATE: THIS MADE 550 AT HAMMER

    A still life by the noted Limerick based botanical artist Geraldine M O’Brien and an arresting 1970 lithograph of Noisiu – lover of Deirdre of the Sorrows of Celtic mythology – by Louis le Brocquy are among the works at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current off the wall online Irish art auction. The evening sale on August 8 follows hard on the heels of a successful auction by Morgan O’Driscoll last Monday.  This time around the offerings are  more affordable. The le Brocquy is a lithograph, number 46 from an edition of 70, and is estimated at €1,500-€2,500. Though Geraldine O’Brien was a celebrated and popular artist her work remains affordable.  Still Life – Vase of Flowers is estimated at just €700-€1,000.   With a selection from Arthur Maderson and Graham Knuttel to Michael Hales and Annemarie Bourke this big sale has something to suit everyones taste.  The catalogue is online.

    Noisiu (1970) by Louis le Brocquy. UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,600 AT HAMMER

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