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    BIDDING FOR BONHAMS IRISH SALE OPENS TODAY

    Friday, November 17th, 2023
    JAMES JOYCE – ANNOTATED TYPESCRIPTS FOR FINNEGANS WAKE. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    The Irish Sale: Vision and Voice by Bonhams opens for bidding today. Bonhams first sale on the island of Ireland will be on view at the City Assembly House in Dublin from November 24-28. Kieran O’ Boyle, Head of Bonhams Ireland and Northern Ireland commented: “Bonhams will be celebrating those whose vision and voice shaped the cultural and artistic identity of Ireland through Irish art, culture, design, and history. This sale offers an exciting and rich selection of works, not least the remarkable Irish News Collection.” Featuring over 30 works, The Irish News Collection will lead the sale. Formed over 40 years by the late Jim Fitzpatrick, former owner of The Irish News, Ireland’s largest selling morning newspaper, the collection features Irish art from the 19th century to the modern
    day. Among the highlights is a portrait by Sir William Orpen (1878-1931) of his daughter Christine, universally known as Kit. Portrait of Kit, estimated at €80,000-120,000, was painted in 1912, when she was just six years old. Other artists represented in this impressive collection include Margaret Clarke, Harry Kernoff, William Conor, Frank
    McKelvey, John Behan and Maeve McCarthy.

    The sale will showcase works from the collection of Mary Hobart including artists Michael Farrell, William Leech, and John Butler Yeats. Paul Henry is represented in this sale with a quintessential west of Ireland landscape, Killary Bay,
    Connemara (€120,000-180,000). The annotated typescripts from James Joyce’s novel, Finnegans Wake have an estimate of €40,000-60,000. Handwritten lyrics of Your song saved my Life by Bono are estimated at €10,000-15,000

    PAUL HENRY LANDSCAPE AT BONHAMS IRISH SALE

    Tuesday, November 7th, 2023
    Paul Henry – Killary Bay, Connemara, painted 1927-35. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £140,100

    Killary Bay, Connemara by Paul Henry comes up at Bonham’s first sale on the island of Ireland running online from November 17-28. The estimate is €120,000-€180,000. Highlights from The Irish Sale: Vision & Voice will be on view at City Assembly House, Dublin from November 24-28. There will be over 30 works from Irish News Collection, formed over 40 years by the late Jim Fitzpatrick. Among them are Sir William Orpen’s Portrait of Kit (his daughter) painted in 1912 when she was just 6 and works by Margaret Clarke, Harry Kernoff, William Conor, Frank McKelvey, John Behan and Maeve McCarthy. Michael Farrell, John Butler Yeats and William Leech from the collection of Mary Hobart will also feature. The annotated typescript from Finnegans Wake come up with an estimate of €40,000-€60,000.

    ART AND DESIGN AT DE VERES

    Sunday, October 22nd, 2023
    The Ivy Bench by Sasha Sykes at de Veres. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,800 AT HAMMER

    The sale of classic 20th century design furniture and Irish art at de Veres in Dublin on October 24 offers some cutting edge Irish design alongside a selection of major international designers like Mies van der Rohe, Ingmar Relling, Marceel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, Rolf Benz and Ligne Roset.  The Ivy Bench by Irish sculptural furniture maker Sasha Sykes is an acrylic and resin piece from an artist who explores the material language of the natural world and is influenced by the Irish landscape.  The most expensively estimated lot, at 70,000-100,000, is a west of Ireland painting by Paul Henry of the Maam Valley.

    PAUL HENRY – MAAM VALLEY. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    PAUL HENRY’S ACHILL COTTAGES AT MORGAN O’DRISCOLL SALE

    Thursday, October 5th, 2023
    PAUL HENRY (1876-1958) – Cottages on Achill Sound (c.1930-1935). UPDATE: THIS MADE 85,000 AT HAMMER

    Cottages on Achill Sound by Paul Henry will be a highlight at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish and International online art sale which runs until October 24. One of finest West of Ireland scenes it has for many years been in a private collection in Dublin. The painting depicts three traditional thatched cottages by a track leading down to the Atlantic seashore. Most of Henry’s views of Connemara and Mayo include mountains. In this he has turned away from the land and faced towards the ocean. The estimate is €100,000-€150,000. The catalogue for the sale is online.

    MEET THE YOUNG PAUL HENRY AT WHYTE’S

    Friday, September 29th, 2023
    PORTRAIT OF PAUL HENRY, 1898 – SIR ROBERT PONSONBY STAPLES RBA (1853-1943) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    The artist Paul Henry was in his early ’20’s when this portrait was painted by Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples in 1898. Signed with a monogram and titled with a shamrock it comes up as lot 14 at Whyte’s sale of Irish and International Art in Dublin on October 2 with an estimate of €5,000-€7,000. Born in 1876 the year 1898 was the year the young artist moved to Paris to study at the Academie Julien and Whistler’s Academie Carmen. The portrait is from a private collection in California. Viewing for the auction continues all weekend at Whyte’s galleries on Molesworth St. in Dublin. Among the artists featured are  William Percy French, Letitia Hamilton, Rose Mary Barton, William Orpen, John Lavery, Paul Henry, William Leech, William Conor, Seán Keating, Gerard Dillon, Norah McGuinness, Patrick Collins, Louis le Brocquy, Tony O’Malley, Donald Teskey, John Shinnors, Genieve Figgis and Rowan Gillespie. 

    OUTSTANDING ART AND SCULPTURE AT DE VERES

    Sunday, June 11th, 2023
    Paul Henry – Connemara Cottages. UPDATE: THIS MADE €120,000 AT HAMMER

    Connemara Cottages is one of the works by Paul Henry at de Veres timed online sale of outstanding art and sculpture which begins to close from 6 pm on June 13. The catalogue contains gallery standard works by major artists of the 20th Century. There are three paintings by William Scott and five by Paul Henry as well as by Sean Keating, Roderic O’Conor, Mainie Jellet and contemporary works by Callum Innes, Donald Teskey, Elizabeth Magill, Mark Francis and sculpture by Rowan Gillespie and Patrick O’Reilly.

    John Behan – Famine Ship UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    A WESTERN LANDSCAPE BY PAUL HENRY AT MORGAN O’DRISCOLL SALE

    Thursday, April 13th, 2023
    PAUL HENRY (1876-1958) – A Western Landscape (1919). UPDATE: THIS MADE 75,000 AT HAMMER

    There is a slightly ominous air about this 1919 Western Landscape by Paul Henry. It comes up as lot 20 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish and International online art sale. The sale takes place on April 18. Viewing at the RDS in Dublin gets underway tomorrow and will run until 5 pm on Monday April 17. This work was painted at a time when Henry and his first wife, Grace, were considering abandoning Achill Island, which had been their base since 1910, and moving eastwards. Grace was delighted with the prospect of the move, but Paul was downcast, for he remained enchanted with Achill. According to a note by the late art historian Dr. Brian Kennedy: “The heaviness of this scene, therefore reflects the artist’s mood at the time and, although he was not then to know, the period also represented the beginning of a decade of financial and domestic difficulties that eventually ended in his separation from Grace in 1930. This picture, therefore, was painted at a turning point in Henry’s life.” The estimate is €80,000-120,000.

    SUCCESS FOR ARTIST LIAM O’NEILL AT WHYTE’S

    Monday, March 6th, 2023
    TWO HORSES – LIAM O’NEILL (B.1954) made €35,000 at hammer

    Two Horses, an oil on canvas by Liam O’Neill made a hammer price of €35,000 over a top estimate of €7,000 at Whyte’s sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin tonight. Another work by the self taught artist Collecting Hay by the Coast, made €17,000 over a top estimate of €12,000. Liam O’Neill has developed a reputation as one of our finest portrayers of rural life, especially around West Kerry. He is a native of the Dingle Peninsula.

    The top lot of the sale was Paul Henry’s Landscape, Connemara which made €135,000 at hammer. Old Houses, Pau by Dan O’Neill made €56,000, Docklands VII 2002 by Donald Teskey made €46,000, The Enthusiast by Jack B Yeats made €32,000 and Strange Days by Jim Fitzpatrick made €19,000.

    PUZZLES AND PORTRAITS AT JAMES ADAM ART SALE

    Saturday, February 18th, 2023
    PAUL HENRY – COTTAGES BY THE LAKE. UPDATE: THIS MADE 120,000 AT HAMMER

    Is it Kerry or Connemara?  A little bit of mystery surrounds the location of a small classical work by Paul Henry at the James Adam spring sale of Important Irish Art on March 1.   The title of this 1930’s work is Cottages by the Lake, Outer Killary, Connemara. The late art historian Dr. Brian Kennedy, author of the catalogue raisonne on Paul Henry, thought otherwise.  He reckoned that that this might well be a Co. Kerry painting possibly mislabelled at a gallery.  In the mid 1930’s Henry produced a number of Kerry landscapes using similar type brushstrokes.   Last at auction in 1977 Adams now estimate it at around €120,000.

    The auction will include a selection of works from the collection of senior counsel Paddy McEntee including eight lots by Edward McGuire RHA.  Seven are portraits.  In a catalogue note Aidan Dunne writes that the renowned defence barrister was a committed supporter of the artist. Brian Fallon, whose portrait is included, wrote that McGuire was “possibly thefinest portrait painter of his generation, and was possibly the finest portraitist
    since John Butler Yeats”. There are portraits of Nobel laureate Sean McBride, painter Patrick Collins and writers and poets Sidney Bernard Smith, John Jordan and Paul Durcan.  The McEntee collection includes three full sized cartoons by Harry Clarke for stained glass windows, two for the Church of the Assumption, Bride Street in Wexford and a single lancet window Church of Ireland in Killiney. The Wexford windows are among a very small number in memory of soldiers who fell in WWI in Catholic churches.  Executed in 1918 they commemorate Lt. William Henry O’Keefe who was killed at the age of 21. The Killiney window commemorates local solicitor Clifford Lloyd who lived at Ayesha Castle, now home to the musician Enya.

    Edward McGuire – Portrait of the artist Patrick Collins. UPDATE: THIS MADE 5,500 AT HAMMER

    JACK B YEATS AND PAUL HENRY SHINE AT ADAMS

    Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
    Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)  – The Duet (1945) SOLD FOR €70,000 AT HAMMER

    The Sick Bed and The Duet, both by Yeats, made hammer prices of €160,000 and €70,000 respectively at the James Adam sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin tonight. They had been estimated at €150,000-€200,000 and €70,000-€100,000. Connemara Hills by Paul Henry made €92,000 over a top estimate of €60,000. Fantail, an oil on canvas by Louis le Brocquy made €50,000 (€40,000-€60,000) and The Garlanded Goat, an Aubusson tapestry designed by le Brocquy made €46,000 (40,000-€60,000). Abstract Composition by Evie Hone made €34,000 (€15,000-€25,000) and Lighthouse Man’s twin cats and Washing by John Shinnors made €30,000 (€30,000-€50,000). Children playing in a woodland glade by George Russell made €28,000 over a top estimate of €15,000 and Valley Wind, Jemisa by Tony O’Malley made €24,000 at hammer (€15,000-€25,000).

    The auction brought in  €1.135m gross and recorded a sold rate of 78%.