Art, Antiques and Collecting

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

Waiting for Currachs to return at NIght by Ciaran Cleere from the art collection at The Red Bank Restaurant Skerries

What’s coming up in the auction rooms?

Fine Art & Antiques
February 16, 2019

Art from the Red Bank, Skerries and a boudoir grand piano

Lot 191: Giltwood compartmented overmantle €500–€800; Adam’s

The fairest of them all: mirrors take centre stage at Adam’s

Fine Art & Antiques
February 16, 2019

Guinness mirrors among wide range of style in At Home sale

A post box was sold for €7,500 at Cavan auction.

Red letter day as post box flies in Cavan sale

Fine Art & Antiques
February 16, 2019

Green paint had crumbled to expose its British heritage

Lot 304; A rare and early photograph of the Moon signed by Prof Henry Draper 1863 (€7,000–€11,000)

Lunar lot to star in Mealy’s sale

Fine Art & Antiques
February 16, 2019

Pioneering picture of the moon inspired by by 1857 visit to Earl of Rosse’s telescope

Robert Indiana’s – Love, Red and Blue signed screen print is available from Gormleys Fine Art, (1996 from an edition of 200 prints) €9,800.

This Valentine’s Day show your love with these vintage tokens

Fine Art & Antiques
February 9, 2019

Gifts with meaning, history and thought are an alternative to flowers and chocolates

The Heart of Space meteorite fragment (€240,000-€400,000)

Out-of-this-world offerings from Christie’s in its Deep Impact online sale

Fine Art & Antiques
February 9, 2019

‘Heart of Space’ fragment is over 4.5 billion years old, and landed in Russia in 1947

The Ernest Shackleton sledge, lot 195, from his Nimrod expedition, €163,718 (€67,000-€110,000)

Shackleton sledge makes over €163,000 in London sale

Fine Art & Antiques
February 9, 2019

Auction results and forthcoming sales

A baboon taxidermy achieved €1,200 (€500-€600) at Usher Auction Rooms, Kells.

Auction results: Postcards from history and a stuffed baboon

Fine Art & Antiques
February 2, 2019

What sold and what’s coming up in the auction rooms

Lot:195 BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1907-1909 Sledge used on the British Antarctic Expedition by Ernest Shackleton ( €69,000- 120,000)

Shackleton sled and the fastest car in the world in February sales

Fine Art & Antiques
February 2, 2019

Polar expedition memorabilia and an Irish tycoon’s car under the hammer

Lot 31: Rosewood sideboard attributed to Rudolf Glatzel for Fristho Franeker (€800-€1,200)

Buy antique furniture if you want to cut your carbon footprint

Fine Art & Antiques
February 2, 2019

‘Fast furniture’ takes a heavy environmental toll, so go vintage with this Dublin sale

‘A jewel of a painting’: Lucian Freud’s Head of a Boy, a portrait of the young Garech Browne. Photograph: Sotheby’s

Rare Lucian Freud portrait of Guinness heir as a boy expected to sell for over €7m

Fine Art & Antiques
January 31, 2019

Artist, who eloped with a Guinness in the early 1950s, painted portrait in Co Wicklow

A pair of art deco chrome and leather armchairs

Art deco: Everything you need to know but were afraid to ask

Fine Art & Antiques
January 26, 2019

There are many reasons why art deco has maintained such a devoted following

Dun Emer rug, 483cm x 243cm (€500- €1,000), Mullen’s of Laurel Park

Rare Dun Emer rug and Ernest Shackleton’s sledge for sale at auction

Fine Art & Antiques
January 26, 2019

Forthcoming sales and auctions

Claire-Laurence Mestrallet appraising jewels at Adam’s, St Stephen’s Green

Sell, sell, sell: how to make money at an auction

Fine Art & Antiques
January 26, 2019

From fine art to furniture, auctions are the best – and often most lucrative – way to sell

Lot: 170: Miss Dorothy Styles by Sir William Orpen, €45,276-€67,914, Sotheby’s

What’s coming up in the auction rooms

Fine Art & Antiques
January 19, 2019

First of the year’s art and furniture auctions and Orpens for sale in London

Buying carpets in Istanbul. Photograph: Getty

Is this a good time to pile your money into a Persian carpet?

Fine Art & Antiques
January 19, 2019

These unique artworks transform a living space. But do your homework before investing

Lot 48: 18th century Chinese jar €30- €50

Décor Decoded: Chinese ceramics surface at Sheppard’s

Fine Art & Antiques
January 19, 2019

Items could have landed in Ireland during the 17th century when ships from the Orient moored in Cork

Bernadine Grogan, from Palmerstown, Dublin, with some of her snow globe collection. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

The collecting bug: ‘I’ll have to ask my husband for more shelves’

Fine Art & Antiques
January 19, 2019

Four avid collectors – of snow globes, buoys, sneakers and doors – explain their passion

Queen Elizabeth’s set, sold by Adams realised, €750

Auction results: Queen Elizabeth’s scissors and brown furniture for a snip

Fine Art & Antiques
January 12, 2019

What sold, what’s coming up in the auction rooms

Jane Birkin with her husband Serge Gainsbourg in London’s Berwick Street, April 1977

The Birkin: bags of style and a sound investment

Fine Art & Antiques
January 12, 2019

The Hermès handbag sketched by English actor Jane Birkin more than holds its value

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