Auction results: ‘First version’ of Manet painting sells for £16.9m

Tuesday (June 23rd)

Bonhams  London. Nineteenth-century art. Boy on a Donkey in Snowy Landscape by Walter Frederick Osborne sold for £5,000 (estimated at £10,000- £15,000) but Joe the Swineherd, also by Osborne, estimated at £50,000- £70,000, failed to sell.

Wednesday (June 24th)

Adam's, 26 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2. Paintings and sculpture from the Collection of Nancy Wynne-Jones and Conor Fallon, Ballard House, Co Wicklow. Ninety per cent of lots sold, including Trout (sculpture), by Conor Fallon, for €8,000 (€3,000-€5,000); Kinsale Harbour (painting) by Nancy Wynne-Jones; and Seated Figure (painting) by their friend, the English artist John Craxton, for €40,000 (four times the top estimate, €7,000- €10,000).

Bonhams's Entertainment Memorabilia Sale, Knightsbridge, London. Gelatin silver print photographs by Terry O'Neill. They included David Bowie and Elizabeth Taylor, in which the pair share a cigarette at their first meeting in Beverly Hills, which sold for £3,125 (£1,500-£2,000).

Sotheby's, London. A "first version" – a preparatory sketch in oils – of Manet's famous painting Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère sold for £16.9 million (£15 million-£20 million).