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JOHN DOHERTY – HACKETTS – DOUBLE YELLOW. UPDATE: THIS MADE 23,000 AT HAMMER
This work by the photo realist artist John Doherty is at de Veres art and sculpture auction which runs until May 27. The estimate is €15,000-€25,000. The sale offers 142 lots with work by Gerard Dillon, Barry Flanagan, Louis le Brocquy, Callum Innes and Tony O’Malley. The catalogue is online.
The Dolan Boys, Waiting by John Doherty. UPDATE: THIS MADE 70,000 AT HAMMER
As the years go by the photo realist art of John Doherty reflects an Ireland that is vanishing fast. If anything this makes the work of this virtuoso even more precious. His 1995 painting titled The Dolan Boys, Waiting, brings you back to an Ireland of yesteryear. No surprise that the artist initially trained as an architect. The subject of the work is in Birr. It is a leading lot at de Vere’s outstanding Irish art evening auction in Dublin on November 26 with an estimate of €40,000-€60,000. There are major works by Roderic O’Conor, Yeats, Osborne, Leech, Shinnors, Norah McGuinness, Mary Swanzy, Nano Reid and others on offer.
A number of Irish collections have contributed to de Veres evening sale of Irish art which takes place at the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin on March 26. The sale of 140 lots at de Veres includes two Enignum chairs by the Cork based internationally renowned designer Joseph Walsh each estimated at 8,000-12,000. The collection of singer Brian Kennedy includes nine works by Patrick Scott. There is art by Jack B. Yeats, Mainie Jellett, Louis le Brocquy, John Doherty, Felim Egan, Kenneth Webb, Markey Robinson, William John Leech, Patrick Hennessy, Lady Beatrice Glenavy, Dan O’Neill, Colin Middleton, Tony O’Malley, Charles Tyrrell and many others.
John Doherty – Strand Street, Youghal, Co. Cork from the show at Taylor.
Legacy is the title of John Doherty’s exhibition at Taylor Galleries in Dublin until May 21. Long known for his finely detailed studies of the minutiae of life in an Ireland that is in the process of slowly fading from view much of Doherty’s work focuses on the effect that the passage of time has on the surface of things. He returns frequently to familiar leitmotifs – old shops in small country towns, petrol pumps, public houses that have long since called last orders and marine paraphernalia that resemble marooned relics of another time and place. In Legacy he presents a series of paintings that together comprise a close study of our built environment and encompass a vast array of architectural quirks and foibles, as well as intriguing aesthetic decisions made by owner/occupiers, that make them rich in vernacular variety and visual interest.
John Doherty 'The Odd Couple (Open for Petrol)', 2010
John Doherty, 'Morris', 2010
John Doherty, 'The Fruit & Veg Van', 2011,
