Markey Robinson (1918-1999) – The Village Square. UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,600 AT HAMMER
The Village Square by Markey Robinson is at Morgan O’Driscoll’s off the wall online art auction which gets underway at 6.30 pm this evening. The estimate is €3,000-5,000. The auction features work by a wide variety of artists including Evie Hone, Arthur Maderson, Banksy, Sean Scully, Elizabeth Cope, Richard Gorman, Damien Hirst, a tourism poster by Paul Henry and .sculpture by Michael Foley, Siobhain Bulfin and John Behan
Majella O’Neill Collins – Sherkin Gust. UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,300 AT HAMMER
This oil on canvas by Sherkin Island based artist Majella O’Neill Collins comes up as lot 24 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current off the wall online art auction. The estimate is 1,500-2,000. The auction runs until the evening of December 3 and includes work by Sean Scully, Arthur Maderson, Graham Knuttel, Markey Robinson, Damien Hirst, John Behan and many more artists.
Ciaran Clear (1920-2000) – Moonlight, Cape Clear, Roaring Water Bay. UPDATE: THIS MADE 5,200 AT HAMMER
This moonlit oil on board by Ciaran Clear comes up as lot 40 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish art online auction which runs until this evening. The estimate is 2,000-3,000. The sale features a wide variety of art and sculpture by artists like Liam O’Neill, Kenneth Webb, John Behan, Louis le Brocquy, Basil Blackshaw and many more.
George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson (1806-1884) – A Barque Passing Roches Point Lighthouse, at the Entrance to Cork Harbour (c.1850) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
This c1850 oil on canvas by George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson of a barque passing Roches Point lighthouse at Cork Harbour is lot 18 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current online auction of Irish art. The wind is from the south and not in the ships favour. A number of paintings by the artist made prices significantly above the estimate at Sotheby’s this month and one made €34,000 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s auction in October. The estimate for this one is €8,000-12,000. The auction features work by Donald Teskey, Louis le Brocquy, Liam O’Neill, Richard Brydges Beechey, Mr. Brainwash, Frank McKelvey, Conor Fallon, William Scott and a wide variety of artists. The sale runs until November 25.
In the artist’s garden by James Brohan at Morgan O’Driscoll. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,200 AT HAMMER
In the artist’s garden, an oil on canvas by James Brohan, comes up as lot 5 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Off the Wall online art auction which runs until October 29. The estimate is €1,000-€1,500. The auction includes works by Markey Robinson, Damien Hirst, Arthur Maderson, Mr. Brainwash, Sean Scully, Cecil Maguire and many more artists. The catalogue is online.
Victor Richardson (b.1952) – Autumn in the Park (1992). UPDATE: THIS MADE 950 AT HAMMER
Autumn in the Park by Victor Richardson is lot number 13 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current off the wall online auction of Irish art. The estimate is €600-€800. The etching below by Yoko Akino is estimated at €200-€400. The sale of affordable art runs until October 29 and the catalogue is online.
Yoko Akino – Daydreaming II. UPDATE: THIS MADE 160 AT HAMMER
Italian 17th century style copper water cistern at Fonsie Mealy. UPDATE: THIS MADE 5,800 AT HAMMER
Art, luxury and the Epsom Gold Cup will vie for the attention of collectors next week. With a selection headed by Sean Scully’s Wall Dark Green (2021) – on course to possibly become the most expensive painting to be sold this year in Ireland – the Irish and international online art sale by Morgan O’Driscoll on October 22 is a must see.
A 17th century style Italian copper water cistern at Fonsie Mealys Chatsworth autumn fine art sale in Castlecomer on October 23 and 24 will undoubtedly leave some viewers with a sense of deja vu. For many decades this unusual piece graced the storied Park Hotel in Kenmare, which came under new ownership last November. The estimate is €5,000-€7,000.
The sale offers more than 100 lots from this luxurious hotel including a suite of four landscape scenes from the circle of Flemish baroque painter David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690) which graced the main stairway. The estimate is €3,000-€4,000.
Wall Dark Green (2021) by Sean Scully at Morgan O’Driscoll. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Old Road, Caherciveen by Jack Butler Yeats ( €180,000-€240,000), Study of Self (1994) by Louis le Brocquy (€120,000-€180,000) and Gerard Dillon’s The Table in the Blue Room (€100,000-€150,000) are among leading lots at Morgan O’Driscoll’s sale. The 172 lots on offer include a seductive selection of work by artists ranging from Roderic O’Conor, George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson and Donald Teskey to Patrick Scott, Genieve Figgis and Felim Egan.
There is sculpture by John Behan and highly collectible work by Frank Auerbach, Albert Irvin and William Scott in a sale that is on view all weekend and on Monday at the RDS.
Meantime Fonsie Mealy offers racegoers a chance to bag the Epsom Gold Cup from 1963. It was won in 1963 by Mrs Anne Biddle’s homebred L’Homme Arme, trained by Tommy Shaw. Born Anne Bullitt in Philadelphia she was daughter of US Ambassador William Bullitt and became, in 1966, the first woman in Ireland to be allowed a trainers licence.
Cork Butter Trade made his Pile by Stephen O’Driscoll (1825-1895) at Fonsie Mealy. UPDATE: THE COLLECTION MADE 3,000 AT HAMMER
It is unusual to find at auction a group of no less than eight charismatic Cork silhouettes by Stephen O’Driscoll (1825-1895). These ones, to be sold as a collection at Fonsie Mealy, have typical titles like Cork Butter Trade made his Pile, The Man Wot Weighted the Cat, Cork Beggars Opera, The Council of War – a Volcano Row and The Two Paddys Blowing up the Mansion House. The estimate is €2,000-€3,000.
The most expensively estimated lot is an Irish Victorian giltwood side table (€20,000-€30,000) made by Arthur Jones in Dublin in 1853 and exhibited that year at The Irish Industrial Exhibition in Dublin. At the other end of the price scale, with estimates from €20 euro up, are silver teaspoons, dessert forks, butter knives and sugar tongs. Viewing at Castlecomer is from 1 pm to 5 pm tomorrow and from 10 am to 5 pm on Monday and Tuesday. The catalogue with almost 1,000 lots in total is online.
George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson – HMS Conqueror and HMS Duke of Wellington in Cork Harbour (1858) at Morgan O’Driscoll. UPDATE: THIS MADE 34,000 AT HAMMER
Genieve Figgis (b.1972) – Untitled (2014). UPDATE: THIS MADE 28,000 AT HAMMER
This oil on canvas by Genieve Figgis is lot 20 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current Irish and International art sale, which runs until October 22. The estimate is 25,000-35,000. Work by this Dublin born Wicklow based artist has been exhibited widely in Europe, the US and worldwide. Among the artists in the sale are William Scott, Sean Scully, Frank Auerbach, Callum Innes, Jack Butler Yeats, Roderic O’Conor, Hughie O’Donoghue and Norah McGuinness.
A sizzling painting by Sean Scully will lead Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish and International online art auction which runs until October 22. Wall Dark Green (2021) is typical of Scully’s newer works in the continually expanding Wall of Light series, which are noted for an intensity of colour. This one is estimated at €500,000-€700,000. The sale is on view in Skibbereen on October 12, 13 and 14 and at the RDS in Dublin from October 18-21. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
MAJELLA O’NEILL COLLINS (B.1964) – TOWARDS THE WEST OF SHERKIN. UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,100 AT HAMMER
This 2023 oil on canvas by Majella O’Neill Collins comes up as lot 14 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current off the wall online auction of Irish art which runs until September 16. The estimate is 1,200-1,800. More than 450 lots are on offer in this sale and the catalogue is online.
