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Breton Boy in Profile by Roderic O’Conor sold for £419,250 at Christie’s in London. This was more than three times the estimate of £120,000-180,000. The work, signed and dated O’Conor/’93, was from the collection of Drue Heinz which Christie’s has been offering in London and New York this year.
The top lot of the sale was The Family of Man by Dame Barbara Hepworth which made £3.8 million. There was a new world record for Dame Elisabeth Frink whose Running Man (Front Runner) sold for £1,091,250.
RODERIC O’CONOR
1860-1940 ‘ROMEO AND JULIET’
At Sotheby’s in London today Romeo and Juliet by Roderic O’Conor was the top lot in what was the most valuable sale of Irish art so far this year. It made £364,000 in the sale of the Brian P. Burns collection which brought in a total of £3,307,375, the highest total for a private collection of Irish art sold at auction. It was one of eleven lots from an auction of 100 Irish paintings which crashed through the £100,000 barrier.
Armistice Day, November 11th 1918, Grosvenor Place, London by Sir John Lavery
The others were Seascape, Orange and Red Rocks by Roderic O’Conor (£100,000) Red Rocks, Brittany by Roderic O’Connor (£100,000) Armistice Day, November 11th 1918 by Sir John Lavery (£250,000) Seated Boy and Sea by Walter Osborne (£137,500) Misty Morning by Jack B. Yeats (£286,000) St. Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle by F J Davis (£243,750) The Lonely Sea by Jack B. Yeats (£125,000) The Beach, Tangier by Sir John Lavery (£100,000) Harmsworth Interior Portrait by Sir William Orpen (£112,500) and The Laugh by Jack B Yeats (£225,000).
Sir John Lavery’s Armistice Day, November 11th 1918 was acquired by the Imperial War Museums. Self Portrait with Palette by Kathleen Fox was acquired by the National Self Portrait Collection at the University of Limerick.
(See posts on antiquesandartireland,com for November 17 and August 22, 2018).
Breton Girl Reading by Roderic O’Conor (50,000-70,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 88,000 AT HAMMER
The evening Irish art auction at the Royal College of Physicians, Kildare St., Dublin on November 20 is now on view at de Veres on Kildare St. The catalogue cover lot is Breton Girl, Reading by Roderic O’Conor whose recently concluded exhibition at the National Gallery was a huge success. Other heavyweight artists include William Orpen, Paul Henry and Jack B. Yeats. Orpen’s contribution is a portrait of World War I fighter pilot and hero John Letts. There is A View of Achill by Paul Henry and two works by Yeats, “Racing on the Strand” from 1912 and The Public Letter Writer from 1904, depicting a character who wrote letters home from the US from Irish emigrants unable to write.
Between Paris and Pont-Aven, Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns, opens at the National Gallery in Dublin tomorrow and runs until October 28. It presents around 43 of O’Conor’s works alongside his better known contemporaries Gauguin and van Gogh, who were his good friends. It focusses on the pictures made by O’Conor in Pont-Aven between 1887 and 1895. The modern artists gathered then in the remote Brittany village were at the absolute forefront of the avant-garde in art.
Roderic O’Conor (1860-1940) Still Life with Apples, c.1893
Private Collection. Image Courtesy of Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd.
Roderic O’Conor (1860-1940) Field of Corn, Pont-Aven, 1892. © National Museum NI. Collection Ulster Museum.
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) Bowl of Fruit and Tankard before a Window, 1890 © National Gallery London, Bequeathed by Simon Sainsbury, 2006
Roderic O’Conor (1860-1940) A Tree in a Field Private Collection. Photographer: Roy Hewson
There is art by John Shinnors and Donald Teskey, Percy French and Walter Osborne, Louis le Brocquy and Dan O’Neill. On the international side there is a screenprint by Damien Hirst, a mixed media work by Joan Miro, a litho of Mao by Warhol and a screenprint and litho by Robert Motherwell. Other artists featured among 147 lots include Sean Scully, Barrie Cooke, Felim Egan, Kenneth Webb, William Crozier, Alice Maher, and Charles Tyrrell.
(See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for April 27 and April 22, 2018)
Figures in a pool by Roderic O’Conor UPDATE: THIS MADE 56,000 AT HAMMER
The Eugenie off Queenstown (1887) by George Mounsey Atkinson UPDATE: THIS MADE 11,000 AT HAMMER
The auction offers important works by Paul Henry, Walter Osborne, Louis le Brocquy, Jack Yeats, Gerard Dillon, Hughie O’Donoghue, Tony O’Malley and Sir John Lavery. There are works by artists as diverse as William Leech, Patrick Hennessy, Donald Teskey, Barrie Cooke, Sean McSweeney, Charles Tyrrell, Jill Dennis and Felim Egan in a catalogue that lists 98 lots. The catalogue is online.
UPDATE: THE AUCTION REALISED 550,000
Nature Morte, Flowers on a table by Roderic O’Conor. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 80,000
Composition, Two Elements by Mainie Jellett. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 36,000
Roderic O’Conor (1860 – 1940)
Still Life Study with Fruit and Pottery on a Mahogany Table
A still life by Roderic O’Conor was the top lot at the James Adam sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin last night. It sold for 48,000 at hammer in a sale which continued a good week of auction results for Irish art in Dublin. The market is definitely turning. There was more competitive bidding this season than has been seen for some time and the top lots at Adams, de Veres and Whyte’s all witnessed it. Nearly three million euro worth of Irish art has changed hands since Monday at three auctions in Dublin.
Top of the Falls and The Creole by Jack Butler Yeats sold for 36,000 and 35,000 respectively at Adams. Other top hammer prices include: Composition XIII by Mainie Jellett (27,000); Portrait of Pamela Mitford by Paul Cesar Helleu (20,000); Diane by Daniel O’Neill (21,000); The Pillar by Rowan Gillespie (19,000); Girl at the Piano by John Shinnors (13,000); The House at Dalkey by Camille Souter (13,000); The House Opposite by William John Leech (12,000); Motherhood by William Conor (10,000); Bridge over the River by Donald Teskey (10,000); St. Martins by Tony O’Malley (8,000); A Horse Alone by Patrick Hennessy (9,000) and Uaimh 55 by Gwen O’Dowd (4,700).
Irish art by Roderic O’Conor and Jack B. Yeats will headline the James Adam sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin on December 2. A still life study by O’Conor and a 1946 Yeats entitled The Creole are each estimated at 30,000-50,000. The sale of 241 lots offers a wide selection. The catalogue is online.
William John Leech RHA ROI (1881 – 1968) The House Opposite (10,000-15,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 12,000 AT HAMMER.
Tony O’Malley HRHA (1913-2003) St Martin’s, April (1973) (8,000-12,000). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 8,000 AT HAMMER
Paul César Helleu (1859-1927) Portrait of Pamela Mitford (20,000-30,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 20,000 AT HAMMER
Roderic O’Conor (1860 – 1940)
Still Life Study with Fruit and Pottery on a Mahogany Table (30,000-50,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 48,000 AT HAMMER
