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Girl with Bird by Gerard Dillon is among the highlights at Gormley’s sale of Irish art on December 5. The auction of more than 240 lots and will include art by Nano Reid, Graham Knuttel, Cecil Maguire, Neil Shawcross, Hans Iten, Carol Ann Waldron, Markey Robinson, William Conor and Elizabeth Cope. The Dillon is estimated at €9,200-€13,800 in a sale expected to realise a total of €160,000-€220,000. It will, according to Oliver Gormley, round off what has been a very positive year for Irish art.
Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst and Francis Bacon are among the artists featured at Art and Soul at the Castlemartyr Resort in east Cork from today until June 18. The international art and sculpture fair by Gormley’s features 80 large pieces of outdoor sculpture and installations set throughout the 220 acre grounds plus 100 artworks on display in the hotel. Irish sculptors Patrick O’Reilly, Ian Pollock, Bob Quinn, Sandra Bell, Eamonn Ceannt, John Fitzgerald,Anthony Scott and Orla De Brí will feature. All artworks will be on sale at prices from €1,000 to €450,000. This is the eighth edition of this event by Gormleys and the first to be held south of Dublin.
This two metre high bronze Irish wolfhound will form the centrepiece of a sculpture garden at Art Source – the Irish contemporary art fair – at the RDS, Dublin from November 11-13. Around 45 artists will have work on display at the sculpture garden which will be at Gormley’s stand.
“The wolfhound is a giant amongst dogs and deserved to be made into a giant sculpture,” the sculptor said. “Nothing represents Ireland better than the gentle quality of our nature and this is reflected in how I have visualised the wolfhound. They are the tallest dogs in the world but also have the sweetest nature and any country would be proud to have it as a symbol.”
A portrait of Grace Kelly by Andy Warhol will be offered by Gormley’s at Timeless, the Irish Antique Dealers’ Fair at the RDS in Dublin from September 23-25 with a preview on September 22. Warhol’s portrait of the actress is based on a still from her first film, Fourteen Hours, in 1951. Gormley’s has priced the screenprint at €200,000. The artist completed the edition in 1984 two years after the actress’s death, aged 52.
“Grace Kelly is extremely popular with collectors and investors as there are very few on sale at any one time,” Oliver Gormley said. “We sold one in 2019 for €136,000 and we expect this to sell for around €200,000 at Timeless, which reflects the appreciation in value for Warhol and high-end contemporary art”.
Sir John Lavery’s oil on canvas sketch for the funeral of Michael Collins is a highlight of the Mary and Ben Dunne Collection to be sold later this year. Singing My Dark Rosaleen by Yeat’s is another highlight. The former supermarket tycoon and his wife are downsizing and selling part of their personal collection which includes works by some of Ireland’s most celebrated painters. Works by Frank McKelvey, Dan O’Neill, Gerard Dillon, James Arthur O’Connor, Jack B. Yeats, Mary Swanzy, Roderic O’Conor, Walter Osborne, William John Leech and Sir Wiliam Orpen are among the 39 paintings to be sold. A selling exhibition of these paintings will be held at Gormley’s Dublin galleries from September 8-24 before moving to Belfast for two weeks.
Artists like John Shinnors, Markey Robinson, Mark O’Neill, Brian Ballard, Ken Hamilton, Charles McAuley, Clement McAleer, Hughie O’Donoghue, Martin Mooney and Comhghall Casey are among those whose work can be found at Gormleys online Irish art evening auction on May 11. There are 274 lots on the catalogue.
Cow (FS II.12A) by Andy Warhol, one of around 100 signed copies of a 1979 screenprint, features at Gormleys online auction in Belfast on July 21. The estimate is €9,000-€13,000. There are works by leading Irish artists like James Humbert Craig, Charles McAuley, Markey Robinson, and Neil Shawcross. The Loop, Cushendun, a stunning lakeside scene by Craig, is estimated at €3,200-€4,200.
