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WHYTE’S SALE OFFERS COLLECTORS KEY PIECES OF IRISH ART

Wednesday, November 21st, 2018

The evening sale of Important Irish Art at Whyte’s at the RDS in Dublin on November 26 will offer collectors an opportunity to acquire key pieces from this flagship winter sale. Highlights include The Man with the Wrinkled Face by Yeats (80,000-120,000) and le Brocquy’s Image of Samuel Beckett (150,000-250,000) from 1994, one of a number of exemplary works by le Brocquy in the sale. There are three horse paintings by Basil Blackshaw, some exceptional work by Irish women artists, a selection of sculpture and work by a wide variety of celebrated Irish artists. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:

IMAGE OF SAMUEL BECKETT, 1994 LOUIS LE BROCQUY HRHA (1916-2012) (150,000-250,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 200,000 AT HAMMER

THE MAN WITH THE WRINKLED FACE, 1944 JACK BUTLER YEATS RHA (1871-1957) (80,000-120,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 245,000 AT HAMMER

SELF PORTRAIT, c.1914 MARGARET CLARKE (NÉE CRILLEY) RHA (1888-1961) (20,000-30,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 48,000 AT HAMMER

MOUNTAINOUS LANDSCAPE, WEST OF IRELAND, 1913-1914 PAUL HENRY RHA (1876-1958) (30,000-40,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 44,000 AT HAMMER

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IRISH AND INTERNATIONAL ART AT MORGAN O’DRISCOLL DUBLIN AUCTION

Wednesday, November 7th, 2018

Viewing for Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish and International art auction on November 12 gets underway at the RHA Gallery in Dublin on November 9. As usual Mr. O’Driscoll has shown selected highlights for this sale in London and expects an international audience. The catalogue, which lists 143 lots, is online. Here is a small selection:

LOUIS LE BROCQUY (1916-2012) Cavanagh (1974) (100,000-150,000) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

BANKSY (20TH/21ST CENTURY) BRITISH Laugh Now 2003 (30,000-40,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 32,000 AT HAMMER

JACK BUTLER YEATS (1871-1957) The Creole (1946) (60,000-90,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 84,000 AT HAMMER

SIR JOHN LAVERY (1856-1941) Glendalough, Ireland (1924) (60,000-80,000) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

MARKEY ROBINSON (1918-1999) Auld Lammas Fair (12,000-18,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 14,000 AT HAMMER

KENNETH WEBB (B.1927) Roundstone Harbour (8,000-10,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 11,000 AT HAMMER

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IRISH ART AT DE VERES IN DUBLIN NEXT WEEK

Wednesday, September 19th, 2018

THE de Veres art auction on Tuesday, September 25 at the Royal College of Physicians, Kildare St., Dublin will feature work by Jack Butler Yeats, Louis le Brocquy, Robert Ballagh, Norah McGuinness and art from the studios of George Campbell RHA and Desmond Carrick RHA. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection: UD

Jack Butler Yeats RHA, 1871-1957 THE RETURN FROM THE PICNIC (60,000-90,000) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

Robert Ballagh b.1943
IN THE HEART OF THE HIBERNIAN METROPOLIS (1988) (5,000-7,000) UPDATE: THIS MADD 7,000 AT HAMMER

Louis le Brocquy HRHA, 1916-2012 STUDY OF OSCAR WILDE (15,000-20,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 19,500 AT HAMMEF

Norah McGuinness HRHA, 1901-1980 THE UPPER LIFFEY (8,000-12,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 11,000 AT HAMMER

Tags: de Veres, Jack Yeats, Louis le Brocquy, Norah McGuinness
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ONLINE IRISH ART SALE OFFERS 215 LOTS

Tuesday, July 31st, 2018

An online sale of Irish art runs by Morgan O’Driscoll runs until August 7 at 6.30 p.m. The catalogue lists 215 works. Here is a small selection:

PATRICK O’REILLY (B.1957)Bear with Bell (1,000-1,400) UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,200 AT HAMMER

LOUIS LE BROCQUY (1916-2012)Flight c.1954 (1,500-2,500) UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,100 AT HAMMER

RICHARD THOMAS MOYNAN (1856-1906) Girl with a Book and Toys (1893) (3,000-5,000)UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,700 AT HAMMER

Kenneth Webb – Roundstone Harbour, Connemara (3,000-5,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 7,500 AT HAMMER

Tags: Louis le Brocquy, Morgan O'Driscoll, RICHARD THOMAS MOYNAN
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A LE BROCQUY HEAD AT MORGAN O’DRISCOLL’S RDS AUCTION

Sunday, April 22nd, 2018

Louis le Brocquy – Reconstructed Head of a Child UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

This artwork by Louis le Brocquy is entitled Reconstructed Head of a Child. It comes up at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish and International art auction at the RDS in Dublin on April 30. The catalogue note explains how an isolated human presence emerged from le Brocquy’s paintings in the 1950’s, until he felt he had exhausted the idea. This feeling led to the destruction of a year’s worth of work.

Then, inspired by a display of decorated Polynesian heads at the Musee de l’Homme in Paris, he found a new way of painting the human head, which is viewed by both Celts and Polynesians as a box that held the spirit prisoner. So he set out to paint the head in a new way, to paint it in pursuit of an archaeology of the spirit. Louis le Brocquy (1916-2012) was one of Ireland’s leading artists. He produced a celebrated series of heads including literary figures like Yeats, Joyce and Beckett. This one is estimated at 80,000-120,000.

The catalogue lists 147 lots. Viewing at the RDS gets underway next Friday.

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SCULLY, YEATS, LAVERY, LE BROCQUY AT WHYTE’S

Saturday, February 24th, 2018

Nearly 200 works of Irish and international art will come under the hammer at Whytes sale at the RDS, Dublin on February 26. The most expensively estimated lot is a west of Ireland landscape by Paul Henry, thought to be an Achill scene (80,000-120.000). Another highlight is le Brocquy’s homage to the poet John Montague. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:

(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for February 19, 2018)

UPDATE: Over 80% of lots were sold and the sale realised 820,000.

NIGHT, 2005 SEAN SCULLY UPDATE: THIS MADE 5,000 AT HAMMER

WINTER IN GALWAY, FROM LADY GREGORY’S HOUSE, COOLE PARK, 1944 JACK BUTLER YEATS UPDATE: THIS AMDE 40,000 AT HAMMER

KAID MACLEANS’ CAMP. A WET DAY SIR JOHN LAVERY RA RSA RHA UPDATE: THIS MADE 15,000 AT HAMMER

ROOFTOPS, 1963 STELLA STEYN UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,000 AT HAMMER

William Scott’s First Triangles from a poem for Alexander UPDATE: THIS MADE 900 AT HAMMER

Tags: Jack Yeats, Louis le Brocquy, Sean Scully
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IRISH AND INTERNATIONAL ART AT WHYTE’S

Monday, February 19th, 2018

Reaching. Homage to John Montague by Louis le Brocquy UPDATE: THIS MADE 80,000 AT HAMMER

Louis le Brocquy’s homage to the poet John Montague is a highlight of Whyte’s evening sale of Irish and International Art in Dublin on February 26. The strikingly modern work entitled Reaching. Homage to John Montague is constructed in six canvasses and is presented, as the artist intended, in its original frame. The economic use of paint echoes the work of Francis Bacon while the preoccupation with the head and spirit of the sitter resonates with le Brocquy’s later work. It is estimated at 40,000-60,000.

The most expensively estimated lot among 191 works on offer is Paul Henry’s Landscape, West of Ireland (80,000-120,000). It is thought to be an Achill scene. The Aran Island Turf Boat by Sean Keating is estimated at 50,000-70,000) and a painting of old men bathing by Jack B. Yeats is estimated at 40,000-60,000. Another Yeats, Winter in Galway from Lady Gregory’s House, Coole Park, 1944 is estimated at 25,000-35,000.

Among the international works are two limited edition engravings by Salvador Dali of Dante’s Divine Comedy, a Baghdad Street Scene by Iraqi artist Hafidh Al-Droubi, Kissing You, a limited edition by Tracey Emin, a print and concrete relief by Banksy and bronzes by Charles Robinson Sykes and Ernest Rancoulet.

Lot 120, An Important Scrapbook of Art and Music compiled by Abigail Cohen in London in the 1830’s, has contributions from Daniel O’Connell, Samuel Love and the composers Michael William Balfe and George Alexander Osborne. It guides at 15,000-20,000. A collection of 24 hand coloured aquatints of Dublin views by James Malton is estimated at 8,000-10,000.

There is a wide cross section of Irish artists including Mildred Anne Butler, Arthur Maderson, Alicia Boyle, Elizabeth Cope, Percy French, Markey Robinson, Rowland Hill, John Kingerlee, John Phillip Murray, Basil Blackshaw, Michael Cullen, Tony O’Malley, Robert Ballagh, Sean Scully, Patrick Scott and William Scott.

Landscape West of Ireland (1915-1918) by Paul Henry UPDATE: THIS MADE 80,000 AT HAMMER

The Divine Comedy, Paradise, Canto 18, Beatrice’s Splendour by Salvador Dali UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

Tags: Louis le Brocquy, paul henry, SALVADOR DALI, Whyte's
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A CHRISTMAS COLLECTION AT JAMES ADAM

Monday, December 11th, 2017

The James Adam sale of the Christmas Collection Parts I and II will take place in Dublin on December 12 at 11 am and 6 pm respectively. The first sale, with 381 lots, will feature vintage ports and wines, silver, jewellery and watches. The most expensively estimated lot is an 18 carat gold Birmingham cigarette case dating from 1871 (4,000-6,000). The evening sale of 215 lots features art. The top lot is Howth Harbour, Evening by Harry Kernoff estimated at 2,000-4,000. Here is a small selection:

Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012)
Sackville Street (litho) 1,000-1,500 UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974) Howth Harbour, Evening (2,000-4,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,800 AT HAMMER

A LARGE GEORGE I IRISH SILVER GILT TWO HANDLED PRESENTATION CUP AND COVER, Dublin 1715, mark of Anthony Stanley (2,000-3,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,500 AT HAMMER

Tags: HARRY KERNOFF, James Adam Dublin, Louis le Brocquy
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20TH CENTURY DESIGN AND IRISH ART AT DE VERES

Saturday, October 7th, 2017

Classic 20th century and contemporary design furniture will come under the hammer at de Veres in Dublin on October 15. Lots on offer range from Danish and Italian design furniture from the 1960’s to the contemporary Nomos table designed by Sir Norman Foster which is estimated at 1,400-1,800. The auction will feature work from designers including Arne Vodder, Osvaldo Borsani and Philippe Starck. Estimates for a selection that includes tables, chairs, sideboards, lamps, cocktail cabinets, Murano glass and mirrors are reasonable.

There is Irish art by Louis le Brocquy, Hughie O’Donoghue, Robert Ballagh, Patrick Scott, Felim Egan, Robert Ballagh and others among the 140 lots on offer. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection: