Evie Hone (1894-1955) – SUMMER IN THE PARK. UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,800 AT HAMMER
Summer in the Park, a gouache on paper by Evie Hone, kicks off Morgan O’Driscoll’s off the wall online art auction which runs until April 14. Lot 2 in the sale is another gouache, Study for a Rug by Mainie Jellett. Both works are estimated at €800-€12,000 and both artists are currently the subject of a major exhibition on pioneering Irish Modernists now underway at the National Gallery of Ireland which runs until August 10. The catalogue for the auction is online.
Mainie Jellett (1897-1944) – STUDY FOR A RUG. UPDATE: THIS MADE 650 AT HAMMER
John Shinnors – Over Hook Head (Dunmore East in the distance). UPDATE: THIS MADE 17,000 AT HAMMER
This fairly figurative oil by John Shinnors is lot 21 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish and International online art auction on April 8. It is estimated at €15,000-€20,000. After the excitement of the Art Evolve fair which drew large crowds to the RDS over the weekend viewing for this auction continues at the Minerva Suite at the RDS in Dublin today. The auction will get underway at 6.30 pm tomorrow.
James Arthur O’Connor – The Avenue, A View in the Parc de Bruxelles. UPDATE: THIS MADE 19,000 AT HAMMER
A surprisingly strong sense of the contemporary belongs to an 1835 work by James Arthur O’Connor at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish and International art sale on April 8. There is something almost surreal in the calm atmosphere of this depiction of a park with a neo classical building in the background. It antecedes the much later work of European greats like Rene Magritte and Giorgio de Chirico.
With its diagonal splash of blue sky “The Avenue, A view in the Parc de Bruxelles” was one of the highlights of the James Arthur O’Connor exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland in 1985. The neo classical building shown now houses the US Embassy in Brussels and the painting – one of a number of highlights in this auction – is estimated at €20,000-€30,000.
The sale is headed by Connemara Hills by Paul Henry, featured on these pages last Saturday and described by Peter Murray as one of Henry’s best paintings. There is impressive work by artists like Roderic O’Conor, Colin Middleton, Donald Teskey, Louis le Brocquy, John Behan and John Shinnors.
Pablo Picasso – Visage Noir (Black Engraved Face)(1953). UPDATE: THIS MADE 18,000 AT HAMMER
Visage Noir (Black Engraved Face) (1953) by PIcasso is a highly sought after Madoura Pottery vase, the result of a collaboration that began in 1947 between the artist and the pottery in the South of France. This one is number 98 from an edition of 100 and is estimated at €15,000-€25,000. Among other highlights are a Famine Ship and a Swans sculpture by Behan and a set of 25 hand coloured acquatints of Malton’s Views of Dublin.
Lady Beatrice Glenavy – The Prayer. UPDATE: THIS MADE 8,500 AT HAMMER
Horses by the Boyne by Nano Reid is estimated at €10,000-€15,000 and Irish women artists and sculptors including Evie Hone, Lady Beatrice Glenavy, Letitia Hamilton, Majella O’Neill Collins, Gladys McCabe, Elizabeth Cope, Norah McGuinness, Elizabeth Brophy, Mary Swanzy, Orla de Bri and Helen Walsh are all represented.
An oil on canvas by George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson features a shipwreck on a rocky coastline and dates to 1850 and there is a painting of Shipping off Dover by Edwin Hayes. A watercolour by Christy Brown entitled A Village Stroll, a view of Inishlackin by Gerard Dillon, a portrait of an Aran Islander by Sean Keating, an abstract by John Kingerlee and a portrait of Rolling Stone Keith Richards in London in 1982 by John Minihan give some idea of the depth and breadth of subject matter in this sale of 161 lots.
There are etchings and lithographs by artists including Andy Warhol, Sonia Delauney, Joan Miro, Louis le Brocquy, Sean Scully and Georges Braque among an appetising selection of highly affordable art. The auction is on view in Skibbereen from March 29 – 31 and at the RDS in Dublin from April 4-7. The online sale draws to a close from 6.30 pm on April 8.
Sonia Delauney – Morning Light UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,200 AT HAMMER
Connemara Hills, the catalogue cover lot for Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish and International art auction on April 8, is described by Peter Murray in the catalogue note as one of Paul Henry’s best paintings. The former Crawford Gallery curator highlights how in this work – unusually for an artist who often depicted a low horizon and towering clouds – the mountains tower over the cottages almost shutting out the sky. Small in scale and depicting a little village in North Connemara it conveys accurately the awe inspiring landscapes of the region. Henry studied in Paris with Whistler and Mucha and influences from both can be found in the painting. A similar scene was used by Henry in 1925 to illustrate a poster for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. The oil on canvas is estimated at €120,000-€160,000. The auction will be on view in Skibbereen from next March 28-31 and at the RDS in Dublin from April 4-7. The catalogue is online.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish – Blue Dove with Flowers. UPDATE: THIS MADE 300 AT HAMMER
This lithograph by Picasso is lot 89 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s off the wall online art auction which finishes this evening. Signed on the plate and numbered 605/1000 it is after a 1961 drawing. The litho was published by SPADEM in 1983 on watermarked Arches paper. The estimate is €300-€500.
Louis Le Brocquy (1916-2012) – Playboy of the Western World. UPDATE: THESE MADE 850 AT HAMMER
This set of six lithographs by Louis le Brocquy of The Playboy of the Western World comes up as lot 18 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current off the wall online art auction. Framed as one they are estimated at €700-€1,000. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World is one of a number of plays produced during the period of the Anglo-Irish revival which has as a theme the rejection by the people of a deliverer from oppression. It has been described as the most vigorous dialogue written for the stage since Shakespeare. The play met with a storm of protest culminating in the Playboy Riots which took place in Dublin in 1908 and received similar treatment in the theatres of New York and Philadelphia. The auction runs until March 10 and the catalogue is online.
Sean Scully – Raval 7 (1996) (€3,000-5,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 4,000 AT HAMMER
The Fishing Village by Colin Middleton leads Morgan O’Driscoll’s online sale which ends from 6.30 pm next Tuesday. It is estimated at €10,000-€15,000. There is art by Liam O’Neill, Felim Egan, Stephen McKenna, Arthur Maderson, Sean Scully, Mark O’Neill, Graham Knuttel, Kenneth Webb, Dan O’Neill and a wide variety of other popular artists.
The auction kicks off with an untitled (1973) gouache on paper by Tony O’Malley. Vividly coloured it is estimated at €1,000-€1,500. This is followed by a gouache of a Lily Pond by Mainie Jellett (€1,200-€1,800).
Colin Middleton (1910-1983) – The Fishing Village. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Tony O’Malley (1913-2003) – Untitled (1973) UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,300 AT HAMMER
This gouache on paper by Tony O’Malley kicks off Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish art online auction which runs until March 4. One of Ireland’s leading painters O’Malley settled in St. Ives in 1960 and was part of the artistic community there though is painting never completely assimilated the formality of British abstract painters. This work is estimated at €1,000-€1,500. The catalogue for the sale is online.
Markey Robinson (1918-1999) – Still Life with Jugs and Guitar. UPDATE: THIS MADE €1,900 AT HAMMER
This Still Life with Jugs and Guitar by Markey Robinson comes up at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current off the wall online art sale with an estimate of €1,200-€1,800. The affordable art sale runs until February 4 and will be on view in Skibbereen on January 30 and 31 and on February 4. Approaching Dawn, River Clyde, an oil on board by Arthur Maderson is at €3,000-€5,000, the most expensively estimated lot. The catalogue is online.
Composition by Evie Hone. UPDATE: THIS MADE 24,000 AT HAMMER
A Composition by Evie Hone and a bronze Cubist Bull by John Behan give some sense of the depth and breadth of Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish art online auction which runs until January 27. With 255 lots in total the sale features highly collectible artists like Donald Teskey and Majella O’Neill Collins. There is art by Donald Teskey, John Shinnors, William Scott, Liam O’Neill, Graham Knuttel, Kenneth Webb and James Brohan among the more expensively estimated lots.
International artists featured include Mr. Brainwash, Damien Hirst, Salvador Dali, Jeff Koons, Sonia Delauney and Andy Warhol with everything from a mixed media sculpture of a puppy by Koons to an offset lithograph of Queen Elizabeth by Andy Warhol from his reigning queens series and a set of six numbered Limoges plates from a large edition by Dali entitled Conquest du Cosmos.
There is art by Pauline Bewick, Christy Brown, Paul Henry, Percy French, Adam Buck, Elizabeth Magill, Markey Robinson, Adam Buck, Sean Scully, Barrie Cooke, Lady Kate Dobbin, Sir John Lavery, Harry Kernoff and a variety of other artists. The catalogue is online.
Before the Storm, Sherkin by Majella O’Neill Collins. UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,500 AT HAMMER
