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- Time to play the art market?
Sat, May 19, 2012Like property, Irish art prices have fallen sharply. Is now a good time to buy, asks MICHAEL PARSONS - First Mount Congreve auction next week
Sat, May 19, 2012ON WEDNESDAY next in London, Christie’s, in association with Mealy’s, will hold the first of two auctions to dispose of art and antiques from Mount Congreve. The house, in Kilmeaden, County Waterford, is best-known for its world-renowned gardens, planted by the late Ambrose Congreve who died last year, aged 104. - A golden memento of Princess MargaretSat, May 19, 2012A BROOCH once owned by the late Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon and younger sister of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, is to be auctioned by Adam’s in Dublin next week.
- AuctionsSat, May 19, 2012 Auction Results: May 15th Kerry Auction Rooms, Tralee, Co Kerry. An Aer Lingus menu for the airline’s “Golden Shamrock Service” on the flight that brought the Beatles to Ireland on Nov 7th, 1963 signed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, €5,200 (€4,000–€6,000).
- Gloomy day for Irish art in London
Sat, May 12, 2012Prices were light years away from the boom when 57 lots by Irish painters and sculptors went under the hammer at Sotheby’s - Separating the ducks from the geese
Sat, May 12, 2012THE TITLE of a painting to be auctioned in Dublin this month has been changed after closer analysis revealed a flock of geese to be, in fact, ducks. Driving out the Flock is among the highlights at de Veres Irish and International Art auction on May 22nd with an estimate of €15,000-20,000. The painting had initially been assigned the title The Little Goose Girl. - Irish sport tackled by Polish artist
Sat, May 12, 2012FEW IRISH artists paint sporting subjects and those who do produce decidedly patchy results. But a Polish artist who has settled in Ireland is establishing a reputation for her paintings of hurlers and rugby players. Iwona Nartowska O’Reilly was born in Poland in 1974, graduated from the Stanislaw Wyspianski School for Fine Arts in Jaroslaw, where she drew inspiration “from the paintings and drawings of old masters”. - Auction resultsSat, May 12, 2012 April 30th : Morgan O’Driscoll Auctioneers, Irish Art sale, Radisson Blu Hotel, Cork. Leenane, Connemara by James Humbert Craig €9,800 (€6,000-9,000); Towards the Opera House, Montpellier, France by Arthur K Maderson, €9,200 (€10,000-15,000); In The West of Ireland by Grace Henry, €8,200 (€7,000-10,000); Bog Scene (watercolour) by Percy French €7,600 (€5,000-7,000); Evening: Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick, 1945 by Stanley Royle, €6,700 (€8,000-10,000); Evening Light, Lake Morraine, 1939 by Stanley Royle, €6,700 (€7,500-10,000).
- Will prices rise for a Louis le Brocquy?
Sat, May 5, 2012Prices for a Louis le Brocquy had fallen dramatically in the years before his death. But how will the art market judge his legacy, asks MICHAEL PARSONS - Snuff box tells a forgotten tale
Sat, Apr 28, 2012Northsider was eminent academic, first secretary of the RIA and physician general to the British army in Ireland - Adam's gives first look at prolific artist
Sat, Apr 28, 2012ADAM’S WILL hold a single-artist auction of work by Seán O’Sullivan next Wednesday at 6pm when 174 paintings, drawings and lithographs go under the hammer. - Collins mementos keep the buyers busy
Sat, Apr 28, 2012THIS WEEK Mealy’s held the last of the big April “history” auctions – and also sold the contents of an 18th-century library assembled by Richard (Ricardi) Moore of Co Tipperary – during a well-attended, two-day event at the Berkeley Court Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin. - Auction resultsSat, Apr 28, 2012 Friday (April 20th): Sotheby’s, New York: A first-edition copy of Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest made $362,500 (€263,650) – the second-highest price ever at auction for a book by an Irish writer. The book was inscribed by Wilde to Robert (Robbie) Ross and was one of 12 copies published in a special edition, printed on Japanese vellum paper, by Leonard Smithers and Company in London in 1899.
- Four Henrys for sale at Sotheby's
Sat, Apr 21, 2012Sotheby’s hopes to woo Irish buyers by showing in Dublin and Belfast next week, ahead of its art auction in London - Mementos of Michael Collins
Sat, Apr 21, 2012THE CULT of Michael Collins continues unabated and is occasionally reminiscent of the devotion once accorded by Irish Catholics to saints. - A gentleman's library with rare gems
Sat, Apr 21, 2012ANYONE INTERESTED in rare and antiquarian books should not miss Mealy’s separate sale of “An Irish Gentleman’s Library” on Tuesday. A fascinating catalogue features hundreds of volumes from the 18th century library of Richard (Ricardi) Moore of Barne House, Co Tipperary. - Auction ResultsSat, Apr 21, 2012Wednesday (April 18th) Adam’s, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin. Sale, “800 Years – Irish Political, Literary and Military History”. 70 per cent of lots sold. An original copy of the 1916 Proclamation owned by a Co Longford family €100,000 (€60,000-€80,000). An archive of documents relating to the Wyse family of Waterford, dating back to the 14th century and estimated at €100,000-€150,000, was sold prior to the auction to the new Waterford Museum of Treasures for “an undisclosed sum”.
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