Evie Hone – Abstract Composition c1931
Scott, Osborne, Henry, Scully, Hone and Le Brocquy head an impressive roll call of Irish artists at the Irish and international art auction by Morgan O’Driscoll’s which ends from 6.30 pm next Tuesday evening (October 20). This sale of great interest to collectors seeking top quality Irish works by some of the country’s most enduringly popular artists is on view at the RDS this weekend.
The catalogue cover lot is a c1931 Abstract Composition by Evie Hone (€50,000-€70,000) once in the collection of the French composer César Geoffray. Walter Osborne’s In the Market Place, Bruges (1882) (€70,000-€100,000) is an important early work. There is a similar estimate on Untitled No. 9 (1982), an oil, oil stick and acrylic on paper by Sean Scully. Two Pears (1977) by William Scott is, at €80,000-€100,000, the most expensively estimated lot in the auction.
Even if it helps art collectors do not need to be monied and along with highly prized expensive art the auction offers some very affordable pieces with estimates from €300 up. Among the lots at the other end of the scale is a watercolour by Frank McKelvey (€600-€900), a pencil drawing by John Butler Yeats (€500-€700), a gouache of Daffodils by Mainie Jellett (€800-€1,200) and a Havana photograph by John Minihane (€300-€500).
The numerous highlights on offer include art by Jack B Yeats, Mary Swanzy, Sir John Lavery, Donald Teskey, William Crozier, John Doherty, Colin Middleton, Dan O’Neill, Tony O’Malley and Daniel MacLise. All of them feature in an online catalogue that is brimful of interest.
John Doherty – Fruit and Fanta, McCarthy’s Bar, Dingle (2006)
