Artworks by Seán Keating and Louis le Brocquy sold high and there was a glimmer of hope for brown furniture in Bray

Unusual offerings include Bloody Sunday GAA ticket, a gout stool and a crouching lion

The well-known figure is remembered as an ‘incredibly hard worker and a great friend’

Auctioneer says piece bought by private buyer and will stay in Ireland

Over 700 lots of fabulous furniture, art, silver and curiosities at Townley Hall sale

Dromoland and Bunratty Castle have housed table, which has estimated €100,000 value

Big-hitters like Yeats, Henry and Osborne now fetching prices well above pre-sale estimates

A snuff box belonging to Easter Rising leader Thomas Clarke is up for sale guiding €3,000-€5,000

Adam’s ‘At Home’ sale has a mix of furniture styles and art suitable for big rooms and smaller spaces

A weekend sale at Adam’s seems to suggest that brown is back in town

Fine Art auction: The Belfast-based TV company will sell paintings worth up to €300,000 in Dublin

Brown furniture is unfashionable but a good punt, while oak, rosewood and mid-century modern are a buy

Auction results

Reclining tiger painting may appeal to bidders nostalgic for the ‘Celtic Tiger’ days

Home front: interiors, design, people, events

`Woman Reading' is one of many works featured in Adam's Important Irish Art auction

Some 40 pieces of art from Basil Blackshaw’s studio be auctioned by this month

A strong start to 2017 auctions in Dublin at Adam’s and Whyte’s

Orpen, Yeats, Henry and Scully continue to dominate with Flatley getting a foothold

Artist’s self-portrait and 1915 painting of Edwardian beauty in Adam’s auction

Hammer price totals €1.3 million as 75 per cent of lots are sold

Irish Georgian furniture the star of annual Country House auction previously held at Slane Castle

Dr Bryan Alton was physician to de Valera and Haughey and a well-known collector

As the art market becomes increasingly polarised, Art $ummit looks at the changing relationship between art and money

‘Objects connect you to a moment in history’

It’s usually death or debt that prompts a family to sell the contents of their home, but in the case of one Dublin house, the owners are selling because they no longer like the style

‘A Connemara Village’ by Paul Henry, valued at up to €100,000, sold for £85 in the 1930s

“I have the kind of taste I can’t afford.”

The annual Christmas auction of Irish art suggests that the market is in good health

Artists represented are Markey Robinson, Tony O’Malley, Frank McKelvey, Norah McGuinness and Peter Collis.

Unpublished Oscar Wilde photo snapped up for €7,000 at Adam’s art auction in Slane

Five Go on a Treasure Hunt: We gave five treasure hunters €100 each and sent them off to flea markets and car-boot sales to seek bargains. So how much would the five items fetch at auction? The news is not good

Work acquired by anonymous telephone bidder after fierce competition for piece

Adam’s ‘Country House Collections’ sale: Eve-of-Budget auction attracts high-spending bidders

Roderic O’Conor’s vision of the South of France tops the bill

Strong demand for the surprisingly humble collection

Total of 134 paintings, prints, sculpture and photographs for sale at Dublin saleroom

Household names such as Paul Henry and Walter Osborne are not just seen as sound investments; their aesthetic clearly appeals to today’s fine-art purchasers