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The Fisherman’s Cottage by Gerard Dillon made a hammer price of €85,000 at de Veres timed sale of Outstanding Irish Art which ended this evening. Blackbird with Girl in a landscape with Cottage by Norah McGuinness made €75,000, On Killary Bay by Paul Henry made €70,000, Joe the Swineherd by Walter Osborne made €70,000, Eden by Louis le Brocquy made €42,000, Rugby Sculpture 2007 by Barry Flanagan made €40,000, and The Hay Stacker by Paul Henry made €40,000.
Brent Geese on the Salt Flats by Norah McGuinness at Whyte’s evening sale of Irish and International Art in Dublin on October 2 almost certainly dates to the 1960’s. One of the founding members of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1943 she was selected alongside Nano Reid to represent Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 1957. Norah McGuinness supplied illustrations to Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, worked in costume and set design for the Abbey and Peacock Theatres and as a window dresser for Altman’s on 5th Avenue in New York and at Brown Thomas in Dublin. This work is estimated at €20,000-€30,000. Viewing for the sale continues all weekend and the catalogue is online.
MAYO, a watercolour by Norah McGuinness, comes up at Whyte’s summer online art auction which ends from 6 pm on July 10. The sale is now on view at Whyte’s on Molesworth St. in Dublin and the catalogue is online. It offers accessible art from Ireland and around the world. Mayo is, at €2,500-3,500, one of the more expensively estimated lots.
This gouache on paper by Norah McGuinness comes up as lot 28 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current online Irish art auction. The online catalogue for this sale – which runs until May 22 – includes work by Sean McSweeney, Nano Reid, Tony O’Malley, Hughie O’Donoghue, Basil Blackshaw, Charles Tyrrell and many others. The McGuinness is estimated at €2,000-3,000.
No less than seven works by Norah McGuinness, including an arresting self portrait, come up at Whyte’s spring sale of Important Irish Art on March 6. The enduring popularity of the artist should ensure plenty of bidders.During a long career Norah McGuinness found a balance between painting and her design work (she designed theatre sets and costumes, illustrated books and the sales windows of Altmans in New York and Brown Thomas in Dublin for over 30 years). Influences from each field were brought into the other. Unlike her contemporaries, Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone, who also studied in Paris under André Lhote, McGuinness did not fully adopt the Cubist approach but rather fashioned elements of it with a Fauvist appreciation of colour to create her own unique reading of her subject. The seven works in this sale include November on the Liffey (1948) (€8,000-€12,000), Self-Portrait 1942 (€5,000-€7,000) and Coastal Town by Moonlight, 1962 (€7,000-€9,000).
Other works by Irish female artists of the same period include The Businessman by Mary Swanzy (€6,000- €8,000) and a 1920’s work by Mainie Jellett titled Ávila, Spain (€6,000-€8,000). This was painted on one of her first visits to Europe and subsequently gifted by the artist to Sarah Purser, and later gifted to the artist Rosaleen Davey. The top lot of the auction is an iconic west of Ireland scene by Paul Henry which is estimated at €100,000-€150,000. Old Houses, Pau by Daniel O’Neill is estimated at.€20,000-€30,000 and his Mother and Child has an estimate of €15,000- €20,000. Colin Middleton also had a design background and there is an emphasis on texture in his 1976 painting titled Dark Lady (€25,000-€35,000). Marmara Dawn by Stephen McKenna is a large work painted in 2009, his final year as president of the RHA. It is estimated at €15,000-€20,000.
November on the Liffey by Norah McGuinness is one of a number of works by the artist at Whyte’s sale of Important Irish Art on March 6. A major retrospective of her work took place in the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, in 1968 and in 1973 the College awarded her an honorary doctorate. This work, with a Dawson Gallery lable on the reverse, is estimated at 8,000-12,000. The catalogue for the sale is online. The sale is on view in Molesworth St., Dublin until 4 pm on March 6.
The Cubist influence is apparent in Norah McGuinness’s painting of Youghal, Co. Cork which comes up as lot number 2 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s online sale next Tuesday evening. The medium is gouache, the painting measures 14″ x 18.3″ and it is estimated at €1,500-€2,500. Born in Co. Londonderry Norah McGuinness studied at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and Chelsea Polytechnic. She worked in Dublin as an illustrator and stage designer in the 1920’s and went to Paris on the advice of Mainie Jellett in 1929 to study with Andre Lhote. In the 1930’s McGuinness lived and worked in London and New York before returning to Ireland in 1939 and settling in Dublin. Associated in Ireland with the modern movement in Ireland she helped found the Irish Exhibition of Living Art.
This high summer season sale of 256 lots runs until next Tuesday evening (August 3). From an etching by Sean Scully to a landscape by James Arthur O’Connor the choice is wide and designed to suit all tastes. A brooding Co. Down landscape by Dan O’Neill stands in sharp contrast to a photo realist work by Eileen Meagher of the Erriff River at Delphi in Co. Mayo. There is work by Kenneth Webb, Pauline Bewick, Patrick Scott, Percy French, Mark O’Neill, Barrie Cooke, Mildred Anne Butler and many more acclaimed Irish artists and sculptors.
The Old Mill by Norah McGuinness (1901-1980) comes up at Morgan O’Driscoll’s online Irish art sale which ends this evening. It is estimated at 2,500-3,500. The sale has aroused considerable interest and large numbers have already placed bids. UPDATE: THIS MADE 4,000 AT HAMMER
This painting of Lobster Pots, Brittany by Norah McGuinness is undated but appears to be from the late 1940’s or early ’50’s. T|here are known examples of paintings by McGuiness of the Breton landscape, such as the Les Bigoudenes in the Niland Collection, Sligo which depicts the Breton women wearing traditional tall lace headdresses of the Pays Bigouden region. This painting appeared in an exhibition of McGuinness work at the Leicester Galleries, London, in 1951. Another titled Breton Port which was exhibited in The Irish Exhibition of Living Art, 1950. Lobster Pots is lot 48 at the James Adam sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin on March 25. It is estimated at 15,000-20,000.
August Bank Holiday auctions by Dolan’s take place in Ballyconneely, Connemara today and on Monday. The sales will include paintings, antiques, fine wine and a Purdey shotgun from the old Rectory, Clifden, the property of John and Brenda Casey. Most lots will be sold without reserve.The auction today consists of furniture, collectibles, some paintings and the 1865 Purdey double barrel twin trigger shotgun. This is estimated at 3,000-3,500. More substantial artworks will come up on Monday. Lot’s Wife by John Shinnors is estimated at 18,000-22,000 and Fear agus Bean On Oilean by Sean Keating is estimated at 18,000-25,000. There is a similar estimate on Hayfield with Crows by Norah McGuinness.Monday’s auction will feature art by Maurice MacGonigal, Mildred Anne Butler, George Russell, Lady Kate Dobbin, George Campbell, Markey Robinson, Mark O’Neill, Kenneth Webb, Cecil Maguire, John Behan and a wide variety of contemporary Irish artists from Charles Harper to Arthur Maderson. Lithographs by Louis le Brocquy carry estimates of 500-800 and a small charcoal and pencil nude study by Roderic O’Conor is estimated at 2,400-2,800.
