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This set of 54 individual matchbooks from a set of 60 designed by Damien Hirst for the Pharmacy Restaurant comes up at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current online art auction. Each matchbook is numbered and stamped with the pharmacy stamp along with the name and address: Pharmacy Restaurant in Notting Hill, London. The estimate for lot 42 is €600-900. The catalogue for the sale is online and the auction runs until March 13.
This 1986 oil and collage on toned paper by Tony O’Malley comes up as lot 9 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish art online auction which runs until March 7. It is signed with a monogram on the lower left and measures 6.2″ x 9.6″. The estimate is €1,500-2,500. The catalogue for the sale is online.
Homing Hookers by Ciaran Clear comes up at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current Irish art online sale, which runs until March 7. The catalogue is online and the sale will be on view in Skibbereen from March 2. The estimate for this evocative oil on board with its hookers in full sail, moonlight, clouds, islands and rocks, which measures 10.20 x 17cm (4 x 6.7inches) is €600-€900. It is already proving to be very popular with bidders.
This early painting of an historic liner by Joseph William Carey comes up as lot 54 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current online sale of Irish art which runs until February 7. The watercolour on paper of the RMS Baltic is estimated at €400-600. Until May 1906 this White Star Liner, built at Harland and Wolff in Belfast, was the world’s largest ship and served the Liverpool-New York route. In 1909 she came to the rescue of the Republic and the Florida when they collided. All passengers were saved. In April 1912 she picked up distress signals from Titanic, but was too far away to intervene. She carried troops between 1915 and 1918 and brought the first American soldiers to Europe with General John Pershing on board. She continued commercial service in the 1920’s and was finally replaced in 1932 and scrapped in Osaka the following year.
UPDATE: Illustrations by Jack B Yeats for The Turf Cutter’s Donkey by Patricia Lynch sold particularly well at Morgan O’Driscoll’s sale this week. The Turf Cutter’s Donkey made €27,000 at hammer, Look at the showdown by the red rock made €24,000 and How did you get here made €9,000. Two Pears by William Scott made €60,000 at hammer.
(See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for January 30, January 21 and January 12, 2023)
Bidding is brisk on Morgan O’Driscoll’s current Irish art auction, which draws to a close this evening. The auction features works by William Scott and Jack B Yeats which have attracted spirited bidding. Pictured here is a 2003 lithograph by Sean Scully, Coloured Wall, number 30 out of an edition of 150, where bidding is already past the top estimate of €3,000.
There is nothing new about celebrity donkeys in Irish fiction. Long before Jenny the Donkey from The Banshees of Inisherin stole the show at this years Golden Globes in Hollywood The Turf Cutter’s Donkey was a favourite of generations of Irish children. Written by Patricia Lynch (1898-1972) and first published in 1934 The Turf Cutter’s Donkey came complete with lovingly evoked illustrations of the Irish landscape by Jack B Yeats. Lot 15 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s sizzling online sale of Irish art which runs until January 30 is an illustration by Yeats of the Turf Cutter’s Donkey which has never before been on the auction market. The sale boasts no less than five watercolours by Yeats, three of them from the tale of mystery and adventure by Patricia Lynch. It follows the exploits of Seamus and Eileen, turf cutters children from a whitewashed cottage befriended by a donkey who leads them into a series of extraordinary adventures. Leading the three illustrations from the work is The Turf Cutter’s Donkey, estimated at €15,000-€25,000. How did you get there? He asked in amazement is estimated at €5,000-€7,000 and Look at the Showdown by the Red Rock is estimated at €8,000-€12,000. Other works by Yeats, The Derelict (1910) and The Pannier Market (1906) are estimated respectively at €10,000-€15,000 and €15,000-€25,000.
There will be much interest in Two Pears, a 1977 oil on canvas by William Scott estimated at €50,000-€70,000. Scott remains the most internationally celebrated Ulster painter of the 20th century and a work of this calibre is likely to generate significant competitive bidding. Among the other artists with a strong following featured in this sale are Donald Teskey, John Shinnors, Hughie O’Donoghue, Mainie Jellett and James Arthur O’Connor. The catalogue is online and viewing gets underway in Skibbereen on January 26.
(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for January 12, 2023)
A 1977 oil on canvas by William Scott – Two Pears – is among a very strong offering of art at Morgan O’Driscoll’s online art auction which runs until January 30. There will be no less than five watercolour works by Jack B. Yeats, three of them featured in The Turf Cutter’s Donkey by Patricia Lynch with illustrations by Yeats. Lot 15, The Turf Cutter’s Donkey, has never been on the auction market before. Estimates for these range from 5,000-25,000. Among other artists featured are Donald Teskey, John Shinnors, Hughie O’Donoghue, Mainie Jellett and James Arthur O’Connor. The William Scott is estimated at 50,000-70,000. The catalogue will go live on January 18.
The enduring appeal of Markey Robinson will face its first test at auction in 2023 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current off the wall online art sale. A gouache on board entitled By a Silver Lake comes up as lot 43 in the sale, which begins to close from 6.30 pm on January 9. A total of 455 lots will come under the hammer and the catalogue is online.
This west Cork watercolour by William Crozier kicks off Morgan O’Driscoll’s current Off the Wall online art auction which runs until January 9. Signed and dated 1990 it is estimated at 1,500-2,500. The catalogue is online and the auction will be on view in Skibbereen on January 5, 6 and 9.
Winter’s Jewel, an oil on board by the Canadian wildlife artist Steve Burgess, comes up at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current Off the Wall online art auction. The catalogue goes online today and the auction runs until January 9. There will be viewing in Skibbereen on January 5, 6 and 9. Among the artists featured are William Crozier, John Shinnors, Cecil Maguire, Robert Chailloux and Charles McAuley.
