Michael Parsons

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.

Jackson Pollock and the richest art sale in auction history

Lavery and Kernoff in Bonhams’ London art auction

Rare and classic paintings of Irish racehorses

Whyte’s art auction to sell a pair of 19th century equestrian portraits

Auctions and results

A Qing period pale celadon jade box, just 11cm high, made €36,000
Chinese collectibles hit the jackpot again at Sheppard’s

Jade collection with estimate of €15,000 makes €110,300

Portrait of William Butler Yeats by his father, John
Roderic O’Conor, Paul Henry and John Butler Yeats for Sotheby’s London auction

Pre-sale viewings in Dublin this weekend

Striped Jug and Flowers by Anne Redpath
Late collector’s treasures to be auctioned

A busy week ahead in Dublin salerooms with major auctions at Adam’s and de Veres

Auctions and Fairs

British army officer’s diary of 1916 Rising found in junk shop

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