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MAINIE JELLETT (1897-1944) ABSTRACT COMPOSITION. UPDATE: THIS MADE 7,000 AT HAMMER
This gouache on paper by Mainie Jellett, which is the opening lot at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish art online sale this evening, has already attracted much competitive bidding, with 32 bids so far. The estimate for Abstract Composition of €3,000-€5,000 has been exceeded. It is the opening lot in sale with a total of 195 lots on offer.
Heart of Darkness – an etching by Sean Scully UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,000 AT HAMMER
Bidding on the current Irish art online auction by Morgan O’Driscoll runs until September 9. The sale features work by Sean Scully, Mainie Jellett, Donald Teskey, Francis Tansey, Kenneth Webb, Nano Reid, Dan O’Neill, Graham Knuttel and many other artists. The catalogue is online.
IVAN SUTTON (B.1944) – FASTNET ROCK LIGHTHOUSE. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,000 AT HAMMER
This oil on canvas board of Fastnet Rock Lighthouse off the coast of Cork is at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current off the wall art auction, which ends this evening. Estimated at 1,500-2,000 it is a popular lot and has already achieved 25 bids. The sale offers a wide variety of art and artists and includes works by Annemarie Bourke, Mike Fitzharris, William Conor, James Humbert Craig, Paula Rego, Tony O’Malley, Blaithin O Ciobhain, Norah McGuinness, Cecil King, Evie Hone and many others. The catalogue is online.
ROBERT CHAILLOUX (1913-2006) FRENCH – Still Life with Red Apples. UPDATE: THIS MADE 850 AT HAMMER
This still life by Robert Chailloux is lot 9 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current off the wall online art auction which runs until August 6. The estimate is 700-1,000. The auction offers more than 400 lots of highly affordable art with estimates from as little s 100 euro. The catalogue is online and the sale is on view in Skibbereen on August 1, 2 and 6.
COMPOSITION BY MAINIE JELLETT (1897-1944) MADE 16,000 AT HAMMER
Composition, a gouache on paper by Mainie Jellett, made a hammer price of 16,000 over a top estimate of 5,000 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish art online auction this evening. Among other top hammer prices were: Poplars in the Jura Valley by Letitia Marion Hamilton (10,500); On a Run by Montague Dawson (8,000); Cradle by Sean Scully (7,500); Woman of Aran by Sean Keating (6,600); Yellow Rabbit II by Basil Blackshaw (6,200): An Irish Village by Markey Robinson (6,200) and Painting by Evie Hone (6,000).
CECIL MAGUIRE (1930-2020) – Pucain (1988). UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,900 AT HAMMER
Pucain, an oil on board by Cecil Maguire, comes up as lot 8 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current Irish art online auction. The sale runs until July 29. The Pucan is a smaller class of Galway Hooker popular in Ireland with a lug mainsail and foresale and is entirely open. The Galway Hooker is a traditional fishing boat used off the west coast of Ireland and developed for the strong seas there. There is a revival of interest in these boats, which are still being constructed. This painting, estimated at €1,000-€1,500, has aroused significant interest too and has attracted 18 bids so far.
DAMIEN HIRST (B.1965) BRITISH – BUTTERFLY SPIN. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,900 AT HAMMER
Butterfly Spin by Damien Hirst comes up as lot 17 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Off the Wall online art auction which draws to a close from 6.30 pm this evening (July 2). The estimate for the acrylic on card is 3,000-5,000, making it the most expensively estimate lot in the sale. More than 450 lots of affordable art will come under the hammer and the catalogue is online.
GERALDINE M. O’BRIEN (1922-2014) – Still Life – Vase of Flowers. UPDATE: THIS MADE 380 AT HAMMER
Still Life – Vase of Flowers by popular the Irish botanical illustrator Geraldine O’Brien is lot 8 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s off the wall online art auction which runs until July 2. The oil on canvas is estimated at 400-600. O’Brien lived at Parteen, a village close to Limerick city, and brought flowers from the garden to arrange her work. She exhibited regularly with the Royal Hibernian Academy. The catalogue for the sale is online.
LADY KATE DOBBIN (1868-1955) – A Showery Day, Blackrock Castle, River Lee. UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,000 AT HAMMER
This watercolour by Lady Kate Dobbin comes up as lot 2 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish art online auction which begins to close at 6.30 pm today. It is estimated at €600-€900. Bristol born Lady Kate Dobbin married Alfred Graham Dobbin, a tobacco manufacturer and High Sheriff of Cork. She studied drawing and painting at the Crawford Municipal College of Art, Cork in the early 1890s and exhibited extensively with the Royal Hibernian Academy between 1894 and 1947. She painted mainly in watercolour and was a regular contributor to the Watercolour Society of Ireland over a period of 50 years. Her work is at the Crawford Gallery in Cork and many private collections.
The accessories of a Manchu gentleman at Adams. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
The embroidered silk accessories of a Manchu gentleman and a fine pair of arts and crafts hanging tapestries or a suite of sapphire, ruby and diamond ring with ear clips and a homage by Harry Kernoff to Francois Boucher’s portrait of Marie Louise O’Murphy, mistress of King Louis XV of France, the choice is yours at sales in Ireland next week.
These unusual lots can be found respectively at a Fine Asian and African art sale at James Adam and Aidan Foley’s online auction of contents from the Convent of St. Joseph of Cluny in Killiney on June 25 and at The Jewellery Box sale at Adams and Morgan O’Driscoll’s online art auction on June 24.
If lot 101 at Adams is any guide the Manchurians dressed to impress. They conquered China in the 17th century, established the Qing Dynasty and ruled for more than 250 years, The 19th century gentleman’s embroidery yellow silk accessories showcase a peacock, three goats representing peace and prosperity and a phoenix surrounded by peonies as part of a set featuring a fan holder, a double gourd betel nut pouch, a wallet and a pocket watch holder. The estimate is a cool €6,000-€8,000. Among 574 lots on offer are Tibetan fabrics, Chinese ceramics, ritual bronze vessels, carved jades, gilt bronze figures, a Japanese lacquered tray, cloisonne, mother of pearl inlaid furniture and even a fetish statue from the Congo.
A pair of Art and Crafts hanging tapestries at Aidan Foley’s sale. UPDATE: THIS LOT MADE 720 AT HAMMER
Nearer home but no less exotic is a pair of Arts and Crafts hanging tapestries (€600-€1,000) at Aidan Foley’s online auction in conjunction with Niall Mullen of contents from the St. Joseph of Cluny convent offers all sorts of choices. There is a selection of antique furniture, a brass and gilded tabernacle, a walnut organ, a collection of linen, kneelers and church pews and ecclesiastical brass items. The sale will be on view at the convent in Killiney from today.
Early 20th century aquamarine and diamond earrings at Adams. UPDATE: THESE MADE 7,000 AT HAMMER
A pair of early 20th century aquamarine and diamond pendant earrings of chandelier design feature among an appetising selection of 289 lots at the Jewellery Box sale at Adams on Monday afternoon. The estimate is €4,000-€5,000, not quite as much as a single stone diamond ring of 3.01 carats graded as G colour which is, at €7,000-€8,000, the most expensively estimated lot of the auction. Other top lots include a diamond and sapphire crossover bangle (€6,500-€7,300), a pair of diamond pendant earrings (€5,000-€7,000) and three c1987 gem set Patrizia rings by Marina B with pink tourmaline, citrine and blue topaz (€5,500-€6,500). There are lots from €50 euro upwards.
Marie Louise O’Murphy after Boucher by Harry Kernoff at Morgan O’Driscoll. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,000 AT HAMMER
At Morgan O’Driscoll’s online art auction next Monday evening Harry Kernoff’s homage to Marie Louise O’Murphy after Boucher is estimated at €2,000-€3,000. In later years Boucher’s painting was also referenced by Michael Farrell (1940-2000) who produced political versions in a Miss O’Murphy series in the 1970’s and ’80’s. There is a 2024 Famine Ship by John Behan (€15,000-€20,000), a Cubist Still Life by Nano Reid (€500-€700), continental landscapes by Letitia Hamilton (€6,000-€9,000), three offset lithographs from Andy Warhol’s Endangered Species series (1,500-€2,000) and Duffy’s Circus by Barbara Warren (€400-€600) among a particularly wide selection of art. All catalogues are online.
