Michael Parsons
Michael Parsons writes a Fine Art and Antiques column in the Saturday paper with analysis and comment about the national and international art market. He is a regular contributor to other sections of The Irish Times including News, Property, and the Magazine and, is an occasional diarist. He has written extensively about property (especially country houses), history, the art market and travel. He emigrated in the 1980s and lived abroad for over twenty years - in Belgium, Switzerland and London - before returning to Ireland in 2005.
Time to buy Victorian art?
- Fine Art & Antiques
- June 15, 2013, 01:00
‘Best collection of Victorian Art ever seen on the market in Ireland’ in Mealy’s Dublin sale
‘The Great Gatsby’ inspires nostalgia for the Jazz Age
- Fine Art & Antiques
- June 8, 2013, 01:00
First edition of ‘the great American novel’ expected to make $150,000 at New York rare-books auction
![Christie’s described the copy of Virgil’s Opera as “the most important early printed book to be offered [at auction] this century”. Christie’s described the copy of Virgil’s Opera as “the most important early printed book to be offered [at auction] this century”](/polopoly_fs/1.1420764.1370623408!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_140/image.jpg "Christie’s described the copy of Virgil’s Opera as “the most important early printed book to be offered [at auction] this century”. Christie’s described the copy of Virgil’s Opera as “the most important early printed book to be offered [at auction] this century”")
Virgil’s poetry, printed in 15th-century Venice
- Fine Art & Antiques
- June 8, 2013, 01:00
Collected works of the Roman poet has estimate of £500,000
Oisín Roche paintings at Adam’s
- Fine Art & Antiques
- June 8, 2013, 01:00
A portrait of the author and journalist John Waters is for sale for €7,500
Newly discovered images of Edwardian Dublin’s Herbert Park Expo
- Fine Art & Antiques
- June 1, 2013, 00:00
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