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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.
Elizabeth Cope (b.1952) – Still Life on Tabletop. UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,800 AT HAMMER
This oil on board by Elizabeth Cope is at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current Irish art online auction, which runs until September 7. The estimate is 2,000-3,000. The sale offers a wide selection of work by Irish artists in various eras and genres, from John Butler Yeats, Roderic O’Conor, Markey Robinson and Nano Reid to Sean Scully, Basil Blackshaw, Majella O’Neill Collins and Felim Egan. The catalogue, with 232 lots, is online.
Henry Morgan (b.1952) – The Burren, Near Fanore (2026). UPDATE: THIS MADE 700 AT HAMMER
The Burren, Near Fanore (2026) by Henry Morgan is lot 12 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s off the wall online art auction which runs until July 27. The oil on canvas is estimated at €600-900. The sale offers more than 400 works of affordable art by a wide variety of artists from Brian Ballard and John Kingerlee to Markey Robinson and Arthur Maderson. The most expensively estimated lot at €3,000-5,000 is Asterisk – Spin Painting, an acrylic on card by Damien Hirst with a studio stamp and a signature stamp. The catalogue for the sale is online.
John Behan – Famine Ship UPDATE: THIS MADE 11,500 AT HAMMER
A unique bronze Famine Ship by John Behan is among the lots at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current Irish art online auction which runs until next Monday evening (July 20). The estimate is €10,000-€15,000. Among the leading lots in this auction is art by Donald Teskey, Liam O’Neill, John Shinnors, Mainie Jellett, Markey Robinson and Graham Knuttel. There are 254 lots on offer and the catalogue is online.
Mainie Jellett (1897-1944) – Study for Fra Angelico/Announciation UPDATE: THIS MADE 14,000 AT HAMMER
This gouache and watercolour on card by Mainie Jellett is lot 18 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish art online auction which runs until Monday, July 20. Study for Fra Angelico/Announciation is signed and dated 1927. It was once in the collection of artist Genevieve de Cissey. The estimate is €5,000-€7,000. The work was exhibited in the acclaimed exhibition The Art of Friendship: Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone at the National Gallery of Ireland in 2025.
The auction offers 254 lots of mostly Irish art.
LIAM O’NEILL – TURNING THE SOD UPDATE: THIS MADE €23,000 AT HAMMER
This oil on canvas by Liam O’Neill is at Morgan O’Driscoll’s online sale of Irish art which runs until July 20. Turning the Sod is estimated at €10,000-€15,000. The auction offers 255 lots including work by Donald Teskey, John Behan, Dorothy Cross, William Crozier, George Campbell, Tim Goulding, Martin Finnin, Kaws, Louis le Brocquy, Arthur Maderson, Charles Tyrrell and John Shinnors. The catalogue is online.
The Mayor Gallery, London shows Minding his own Business by Patrick O’Reilly at Treasure House.
From Old Master paintings, antiquities, sculpture and rare books to a prehistoric woolly mammoth head and Galileo’s first drawing of the moon the incredible London season now in full swing continues on its merry way.
London’s flagship Treasure House Fair continues at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea this weekend, it is Classic Week at Christie’s and Sotheby’s offerings next week include Scene in Braemar by Sir Edwin Landseer, a little known sister painting to The Monarch of the Glen.
In Ireland summer online sales of much more affordable art will be held at Whyte’s on Monday June 29 and Morgan O’Driscoll on Tuesday June 30. It all adds up to a very healthy market for art and collectibles.
The trove of masterpieces at Treasure House includes a 25,000 year old woolly mammoth head, drawings by Gallileo, a luxurious dog house made for Marie Antoinette’s favourite pet, a pair of commodes owned by Madame du Pompadour, jewels from the era of Henry VIII and Shakespeare, an exhibition of contemporary British women artists, a show of British Surrealism and a sculpture walk with monumental artworks by Eduardo Paolozzi, Elizabeth Frink, Ron Arad, Nicola Anthony and Patrick O’Reilly.
Sir Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, at Christie’s. UPDATE: THIS MADE £9,670,000 A NEW WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
Christie’s has an estimate of £8 million – £12 million (€9.22 million – €13.83 million) on Sir Thomas Lawrence’s portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. In this portrait painted after Wellington’s defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo the artist succeeded in penetrating Wellington’s aura of heroism to capture the essence of the man. The Old Master’s sale takes place next Tuesday evening (June 30). Sales during Classic Week feature art from antiquity to the 21st century.
Sir Edwin Landseer – Scene in Braemar at Sotheby’s. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £5,946,000 A NEW AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
The estimate for Landseer’s Scene at Braemar at Sotheby’s on the following evening (July 1) is £3 million – £4 million (€3.46 million – €4.61 million). Painted in 1857 the nearly nine foot canvas is a darker sister painting to the iconic and renowned Monarch of the Glen.
Rosaleen Brigid Ganly (1909-2002) – Stargazer Lily at Whyte’s. UPDATE: THIS MADE 150 AT HAMMER
There is a good selection of affordable art at Whyte’s summer online art auction which gets underway at 6 pm next Monday (June 29). The catalogue features 241 lots and includes work by Jack Butler Yeats, Walter Osborne, Estella Solomons, Eva Hamilton, Harry Kernoff, Dan O’Neill, Henry Moore, James Brohan, Liam Treacy, Banksy, Nelson Mandela, Brigid Ganly and many more artists. The most expensively estimated lots are Fishing Boats by James Brohan an d Self Portrait by Eva Hamilton, each estimated at €2,500-€3,500. The Tennis Court, a signed lithograph by Nelson Mandela from his Robben Island series, is estimated at €2,000-€3,000.
Majella O’Neill Collins (b.1964) – Returning home to Sherkin Island at Morgan O’Driscoll. UPDATE: THIS MADE €2,000 AT HAMMER
Morgan O’Driscoll’s off the wall online sale of affordable art is on view in Skibbereen next Monday and Tuesday. It gets underway at 6.30 pm on Tuesday (June 30) and the catalogue is online. An oil on board of Montpellier by Arthur Maderson carries the highest estimate of €4,000-€6,000. There is art by a wide variety of artists including William Crozier, Paul Henry, Damien Hirst, Robert Ballagh, Shepard Fairey, Andy Warhol, Jack B Yeats, Jim Sheehy, George Campbell and John Behan.
Markey Robinson (1918-1999) – Achill Sound. UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,500 AT HAMMER
Achill Sound, a gouache on board by Markey Robinson, is lot 6 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s off the wall art auctions which runs to 6.30 pm on June 8. The estimate is €1,000-1,500. More than 450 affordable lots of art are on the catalogue. There are etchings by popular artists like Sean Scully, Donald Teskey and William Crozier, oils by Norman McCaig, Brian Ballard, Kenneth Webb and Graham Knuttel, drawings by Tony O’Malley, Mainie Jellett and John Butler Yeats and sculpture by Siobhan Bulfin and Michael Foley among the wide selection on offer. The auction kicks off with a pastel on paper by John Shinnors, Day at the Circus II and the catalogue is online.
