So many fish to fry

Pick up an original for the price of a print at an affordable art auction

THE BALLSBRIDGE hotel formerly known as the Berkeley Court Hotel has been renamed . . . the Berkeley Court Hotel after a confusing interlude during which it was owned by developer Seán Dunne and called the D4Berkeley Hotel.

The hotel, on Lansdowne Road, is the venue for de Veres art auction at 2pm tomorrow where the emphasis is on “affordable art”.

The 300 lots go on view today. Many of the paintings will be offered with no reserve.

Rory Guthrie, director at de Veres, said among the lots is “a collection of works from a deceased Cork collector”, which brings “fresh Irish works to the market with very competitive estimates”.

Artists featured include the “emerging” Brien Vahey and established names such as Colin Middleton, Tony O’Malley and Gerard Dillon.

Also tomorrow afternoon, in Limerick, Dolan’s auctioneers is holding an auction of Irish art at the Carlton Castletroy Park Hotel at 3pm.

Hundreds of paintings will go under the hammer including works by popular artists such as Mark O’Neill, Ivan Sutton, Thelma Mansfield, Norman Teeling and Markey Robinson. Viewing today.