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Art, Antiques and Collecting

The Auction Room: Essential news, views and features about buying - and selling - art, antiques and collectibles in Ireland and abroad

Early Afternoon, 1995 etching, one of the artworks gifted to the National Gallery by George Wallace’s family. Photograph: National Gallery of Ireland

Second chance to see George Wallace exhibition at the National Gallery

Fine Art & Antiques
July 24, 2021

Etchings, woodcuts, monotypes and drawings gifted by artist’s family to the gallery

These running shoes handmade by Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman are estimated at $800,000-$1.2 million (€677,224-€1,015,836) at Sotheby’s

Early handmade Nike running shoes could fetch €1m in Olympian auction

Fine Art & Antiques
July 24, 2021

Nike founder Bill Bowerman made runners for Canadian bronze medallist

Victor Skrebneski’s signed and dated portrait of Bette Davis has an estimate of $1,500-$2,500 (€1,267-€1,690)

Bette Davis eyes mesmerise in New York photography auction

Fine Art & Antiques
July 17, 2021

Sotheby’s sale features Victor Skrebneski photograph of Davis billed as her ‘favourite’

18ct white gold Ceylon sapphire and diamond art deco cluster ring is one of the highlights in Hegarty’s timed online auction guiding at €3,000-€6,000

Vintage Rolex watch provides ‘Antiques roadshow’ moment

Fine Art & Antiques
July 17, 2021

John Weldon sale includes 1967/1968 Rolex GMT valued at between €15,000 and €30,000

Lot 2, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Pair of Gold Wedding Rings, £6,000-8,000

‘Dearest love Teddy’: Sylvia Plath letters, photos and wedding rings for sale

Fine Art & Antiques
July 11, 2021

Sotheby’s auction personal items including photo album from Frieda Hughes’ collection

Verso the Arundel Zodiac with basse taille of a crane.

Renaissance jewel set to dazzle buyers at gems sale

Fine Art & Antiques
July 10, 2021

The Arundel Zodiac was thought to be created for the Duke of Mantua in 1540

Printmaker and lecturer in art, Edward Twohig examines a piece of his work

Durer, Rembrandt and Pissarro prints among works in Dublin exhibition

Fine Art & Antiques
July 3, 2021

Edward Twohig to exhibit 140 works in Dublin from his private collection

The first Lewis Hamilton Formula 1 race winning car to come to the market, will be sold in a live auction which takes place at the 2021 British Grand Prix at Silverstone on Saturday July 17th. Photograph: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby’s

Lewis Hamilton Formula 1 racing car expected to fetch up to €5.8m

Fine Art & Antiques
July 3, 2021

2010 Turkish Grand Prix winner McLaren MP4-25 can still be track driven

Tim Berners-Lee at his computer at Cern when he released the code that became the World Wide Web

Code that formed basis of worldwide web for sale as non-fungible token

Fine Art & Antiques
June 26, 2021

Proceeds of sale by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the internet, to go to charity

Lavery, In Morocco (£100,000-£150,000/ €116,760- €175,150), Bonham’s

‘Newly discovered’ Lavery to be auctioned at end of June

Fine Art & Antiques
June 26, 2021

The painting, In Morocco, has been in the same family collection since the 1930s

Thibault Duval: head of the new Asian Art department at Adam’s of St Stephen’s Green

Adam’s bids for European market for Asian Art

Fine Art & Antiques
June 19, 2021

Auctioneer aiming to attract collections that would have gone to the UK prior to Brexit

Owl Run, Hughie O’Donoghue, €25,000 - €35,000, Morgan O’Driscoll

Final sales of the season leave auction buyers spoiled for choice

Fine Art & Antiques
June 19, 2021

Signed copies of Joyce’s Ulysses and Wilde’s Poems, and works by Paul Henry to feature

Spider back chairs from Café en Seine, guide €200-€400.

Rare Japanese WWII binoculars and copy of Mein Kampf in ‘snapshot of history’ sale

Fine Art & Antiques
June 12, 2021

Niall Mullen’s Summer Interior and Historical Sale also includes antique Steinway

The Old Days by Jack B Yeats, formerly owned by film producer John Huston when he lived in Galway. (£500,000-£800,000/€581,300- €938,100). Christie’s

Yeats, Freud and Lavery among heavyweights in Christie’s sale

Fine Art & Antiques
June 12, 2021

Barney Eastwood collection includes important Irish and sporting pictures

Jonathan Swift. A first edition of his 1726 masterpiece will feature in Bonham’s Fine Books and Manuscripts sale in New York on Thursday June 17th. Image: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

First-edition Gulliver’s Travels expected to fetch close to €100k

Fine Art & Antiques
June 5, 2021

Bonham’s also selling bust of Jonathan Swift and holding sale celebrating male form in art

The Incredible Hulk comic from 1974 (€7,000-€10,000)

Incredible Hulk comic may fetch €10,000 in collectibles sale

Fine Art & Antiques
June 5, 2021

1974 issue of Marvel comic listed for sale at Mullen’s Collectors' Sale

Self Portrait Wearing a Hat, Sean Keating €30,000- €50,000 Whyte’s

Anti-modernist Seán Keating would have strong words for non-fungible tokens

Fine Art & Antiques
May 29, 2021

Adam’s and Whyte’s art sales both feature paintings by the Limerick-born artist

Aer Lingus, ‘Send your gift turkey by air’ poster from 1962, €300-€500, Sheppard’s

Vintage Irish ads sale: From Aer Lingus-flying turkeys to Santa’s Tayto

Fine Art & Antiques
May 29, 2021

Wide range of historical Irish advertising material from single collector at Sheppard’s

Sapphire ruby and diamond spray brooch by Bulgari €8,000-€12,000

Post-pandemic treat in store for devotees of fine jewellery at Adam’s auction

Fine Art & Antiques
May 22, 2021

Upcoming sale to feature rare emerald and pieces by Van Cleef and Arpels and Bulgari

Sean Scully’s Double Window (€350,000-€550,000) will feature at Sotheby’s Art Contemporain Evening Sale in Paris

Sean Scully’s Double Window to feature in upcoming Sotheby’s Paris sale

Fine Art & Antiques
May 22, 2021

Oil on canvas executed in artist’s distinctive style has estimate of €350,000 to €550,000

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