Mainie Jellett – Cactus in Bloom made 2,000 at hammer
Cactus in Bloom by Mainie Jellett has just sold for a hammer price of 2,000 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s off the wall online auction of Irish art. The sale is ongoing. Autumn Evening, the upper pool, Glenshane by Arthur Maderson made 7,000 at hammer and Iron Fist by Cian McLoughlin made 1,400. Clown, a gouache on card by Markey Robinson made 3,000.
Cecil Maguire RHA RUA (1930-2020) – Cushendun, Co. Antrim (1996)
This oil on board of Cushendun, Co. Antrim by Cecil Maguire is at Morgan O’Driscoll’s off the wall online art auction which runs until the evening of October 27. The estimate is €3,000-€5,000. The auction offers a wide variety of artists at affordable price points and the catalogue is online.
Paul Henry (1876-1958) – The Shower (1930-34) made 60,000 at hammer
The Shower by Paul Henry, a work from the early 1930’s which captures the sense of a passing shower, made a hammer price of €60,000 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish and International art sale on October 20. Other top hammer prices included: In the Market Place Bruges by Walter Osborne (€75,000); Abstract Composition by Evie Hone (€52,000); Achill Cottages by Paul Henry (€66,000); View of Ballydavid Head and the Black Rock Kerry by Liam O’Neill (€34,000); The Rivals by Jack B Yeats (€30,000) and West Road by Donald Teskey (€36,000).
Evie Hone – Abstract Composition c1931. UPDATE: THIS MADE 52,000 AT HAMMER
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) UPDATE: THIS MADE 19,000 AT HAMMER
Gerald Scarfe (b.1936) – Pink Floyd – The Wall (The Flowers: Sequence). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Work by the English satirical cartoonist Gerald Scarfe includes graphics for Pink Floyd, particularly on their 1979 album The Wall and its 1982 animated musical surrealist film drama directed by Alan Parker. This oil on canvas for the flowers sequence is at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish and international evening online art auction on October 20 with an estimate of €15,000-25,000. On view at the RDS from today until October 19 the auction offers an impressive roll call of artists and includes three works by Paul Henry who broke the million euro barrier at Sotheby’s in London earlier this week.
The Pedlar’s Cart, Achill by Paul Henry at Sotheby’s. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Opportunity knocks for serious collectors at sales by Sotheby’s in London next Wednesday evening (October 14) and at Morgan O’Driscoll on October 20. A group of nine Irish paintings by Yeats, Orpen, O’Conor, Henry, Dillon and Lavery from a private collection at Sotheby’s have a combined estimate of £1.4 million (€1.6 million). Two more works are on offer for private sale. The Amateur Ventriloquist, September Gale and Galway by Jack B Yeats, Little Spanish Dancer girl in Red Shawl and Midday on the Beach by Sir William Orpen, Red Rocks and Foam by Roderic O’Conor, The Potato Harvest, Pedlar’s Cart Achill and A Winter Sea by Paul Henry, Boys Catching crabs in Connemara by Gerard Dillon and Tennis, Hotel Beau Site, Cannes by Sir John Lavery are all available.
The top seven lots at Morgan O’Driscolls sale, on view in Skibbereen until October 12 and at the RDS from next Friday until Monday October 19, have a combined top estimate of over €600,000. William Scott’s Two Pears (1977) is estimated at €80,000-€100,000. In the Market Place of Bruges by Walter Osborne, The Shower by Paul Henry and Untitled No. 9 (1982) by Sean Scully are each estimated at €70,000-€100,000. Abstract Composition by Evie Hone, Achill Cottages by Paul Henry and Reconstructed Head of a Child (1968) by Louis le Brocquy are each estimated at €50,000-€70,000. Among 172 lots on offer at Morgan O’Driscoll there is likely to be much local interest in a brilliant c1835 oil on canvas by Daniel Maclise entitled The Fortune Teller (€15,000-€25,000).
Two Pears by William Scott at Morgan O’Driscoll. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Walter Frederick Osborne (1859-1903) – In the Market Place of Bruges (1882). UPDATE: THIS MADE 75,000 AT HAMMER
This 1882 oil on canvas by Walter Osborne is one of the leading lots at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish and International online art auction on October 20. Exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1884 it is estimated at €70,000-100,000. The auction of 172 lots offers many highly collectible works. It will be on view in Skibbereen from October 9-12 and at the RDS in Dublin from October 16-19. The catalogue is online.
Markey Robinson (1918-1999) – Awaiting the Catch UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
This oil on board by Markey Robinson is the most expensively estimated lot at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current off the wall online auction of Irish art. The estimate is €3,000-4,000. The auction, which ends from 6.30 pm on September 14, offers a wide selection of art with 425 lots in total on offer. The catalogue is online.
Leo Whelan (1892-1956) – Portrait of Bishop Thomas Grace of Sacramento at Sheppards. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
The summer light begins to wane and the early autumn Irish art sale season gets underway in earnest next week. Sheppards will showcase exceptional works from artists like Louis le Brocquy, William Conor, Sir William Orpen, Leo Whelan, John Shinnors, Norah McGuinness, John Behan, John Burke, Patrick O’Reilly and more at their sale in Durrow on Tuesday September 15.
The online sale of paintings, sculpture, prints, vintage posters and photography by Lot 100 of Lismore runs until next Tuesday. Morgan O’Driscoll’s off the wall auction of affordable art will draw to a close from 6.30 pm on September 14.
The strong sculpture selection at Sheppards is headed by John Burke’s Maquette for Kingfisher – Wilton Roundabout sculpture from the early 1980’s. Twisted Form by F E McWilliam, Emigrants by Eamon O’Doherty and Couple II by Joseph Sloan feature in a sale that includes five works by John Behan, three of Rory Breslin’s Clew Bay Masks series along with work by Mark Rode, Patrick O’Reilly, Nicholas Dolan, Michael Foley, Jarlath Daly, Oisin Kelly, Donnacha Cahill and other sculptors. Shawlie with Children, Quay St., Skerries, Co. Dublin is a rediscovered c1915 oil on canvas by William Conor while Leo Whelan’s portrait of Wexford born Bishop Thomas Grace of Sacramento was part of a commission for All Hallows College in Drumcondra, Dublin. All catalogues are online.
Alexander Calder (1898-1976) – Untitled III, a Maeght edition lithograph from 1963 at Lot 100. UPDATE: THE CLOSING BID WAS 400
Untitled (1998) by Felim Egan (1952-2020) at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish art online auction. UPDATE: THIS MADE 8,000 AT HAMMER
Art by Donald Teskey, Basil Blackshaw, Sean Scully, Liam O’Neill, Barrie Cooke, Cecil Maguire, John Behan, Felim Egan and Markey Robinson leads Morgan O’Driscoll’s current Irish art online auction. The sale, with 232 lots in total, draws to a close on Monday evening, September 7, and the catalogue is online.