Art, Antiques and Collecting

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

Ballynahinch by Douglas Alexander (€1,500-€2,500)

Happy hunting in prospect at sale of Prumplestown House contents

Fine Art & Antiques
June 15, 2019

Regency furniture made for Duke of Leinster among 700 lots up for auction

Matte white Himalaya Niloticus crocodile Birkin 35 with palladium hardware achieved £162,500 (£70,000-£90,000). Photograph: Christie’s

What it went for: Auction results

Fine Art & Antiques
June 15, 2019

Lynes and Lynes sale to include brass sundial by Daniel Voster and carved oak altar

A 1956 Remington typewriter owned by Lady Pamela Blunden (€100-€150) is among the items up for auction

Forthcoming auction offers Blunden sisters’ family heirlooms

Fine Art & Antiques
June 15, 2019

1956 Remington typewriter owned by Lady Pamela among old curiosities for sale

Sylvia Beach and James Joyce.

Ulysses first edition to auction for between €70,000 and €90,000

Fine Art & Antiques
June 8, 2019

Copy signed by James Joyce is from the earliest print run of the world renowned book

Daniel Quigley painting of The Great Carriage Match on Newmarket Heath by the Earls of March & Eglington 1750, (8ft x 3ft).

London’s exclusive Masterpiece fair to draw collectors from across the globe

Fine Art & Antiques
June 8, 2019

Art and antiques spanning several thousand years to be offered for sale at high end Chelsea fair

Homeward Bound Sean Keating €60,000- €80,000 Adam’s

What it went for: auction results

Fine Art & Antiques
June 8, 2019

Adam’s Important Irish Art Sale to include a substantial work by Sean Keating

Lot 58: ‘Low Water, Spring-Tide, Clifden’ by Jack B Yeats, €40,000-€60,000 Adam’s

Yeats’s very first oil painting to go on sale next month

Fine Art & Antiques
June 1, 2019

Adam’s and De Vere’s sales offer a chance to purchase work from Ireland’s top artists

Edgar Allan Poe’s pocket watch is for sale at Chriestie’s in New York on June 12th with an estimate of $80,000- $120,000

Time’s up as private collector sells 800 watches and clocks at Sotheby’s

Fine Art & Antiques
June 1, 2019

Some rare and unusual time pieces are coming on the international market in the coming months, including a pocket watch owned by the writer Edgar Allan Poe

An Apple-1 computer, which cost $666.66 in 1976, sold online through Christie’s for £371,250

Apple-1 computer sells for £371,250 in online auction

Fine Art & Antiques
June 1, 2019

Christie’s sale is one of the recent auction highlights, along with works by Le Brocquy and Yeats

Dance of Time III by Salvador Dali being installed in the gardens at Russborough House in Co Wicklow

Dalí’s surreal dream pieces in the gardens at Russborough

Fine Art & Antiques
May 25, 2019

Wicklow exhibition and sale includes work from Irish and international sculptors

Stone sculpture of a bearded man, €400-€600, Sheppard’s

Rare post box on the block in garden sale

Fine Art & Antiques
May 25, 2019

The late 19th-century box stood for more than 100 years on Patrick Street in Cork

Chinese Qing gilt bronze censer €95,000 (€15,000-€20,000) Sheppard’s

Chinese incense burner is sleeper lot in Laois, selling for €95,000

Fine Art & Antiques
May 25, 2019

Auction results and sales: Christie’s, New York to sell Leonard Cohen letters

1950s Cartier ‘coffee bean’ brooch and earrings, guide €6,000-€8,000, sold for €34,000

Brilliant results for Cartier, Chopard gems

Fine Art & Antiques
May 18, 2019

Designer pieces were among the top selling lots at Adam’s fine jewellery sale

Lot 16 Western Landscape by Paul Henry is seeking €100,000–€150,000

Mysterious muses and a river god at Whytes, but tapestry could top 20th century sale

Fine Art & Antiques
May 18, 2019

LeBrocquy tapestry once owned by tycoon Tony O’Reilly estimated at up to €60,000

Lot 54 – Art deco style French dining table 1970, €600–€1000

Boardroom classics and a barely-there chair at deVere’s

Fine Art & Antiques
May 18, 2019

Demand for statement pieces should be met by eclectic mix of mid-century furniture

Lot 18 Important Venetian vioin attributed to the Pelizon family €15,000- 20,000

Bidders from over 40 countries expected to vie for Chinese artefacts in Laois

Fine Art & Antiques
May 11, 2019

The Durrow auction house is holding a select sale of just 100 lots, most of them Chinese

Powerscourt House will be a topic in the forthcoming conference at Maynooth University

The splendid and tragic history of Irish country houses

Fine Art & Antiques
May 11, 2019

Maynooth conference takes in the Gibtons, Laval Nugent and Elizabeth Bowen

The Faberge gold Russian egg pendant (€8,000-€12,000)

What’s coming up in the auction rooms

Fine Art & Antiques
May 11, 2019

Fine jewellery sale at O’Reilly’s to include a Faberge gold Russian egg pendant

A selection of 50 rare and signed works by 1995 Nobel Literature laureate Seamus Heaney will be offered at the Victor Mee auction.

Heaney collection and some rare whiskey in Co Cavan sale

Fine Art & Antiques
May 4, 2019

Victor Mee auction will include signed books by the Nobel prize-winning author

Lot 39 Van Cleef & Arpels diamond and ruby minaudiere from 1935 (€15,000- €20,000)

Be dazzled: summer jewels you have to try at Adam’s

Fine Art & Antiques
May 4, 2019

Bright and playful pieces along with some serious investment opportunities in glittering sale

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