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Irish Independent
27-06-2025
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- Irish Independent
In the salerooms: Great Irish deer horns, an unusual Paul Henry painting and an idyllic kids' scene by Dorothea Sharp
The fossilised horns and skull of a great Irish deer (Cervus Giganteus Hibernicus) sold for €40,000 at Fonsie Mealy's Chatsworth Summer Fine Art Sale, which took place on June 18 and 19. The 14-point antlers, spanning 249cm, were reputedly found in the Bog of Allen by the vendor's family and carried an estimate of €10,000 to €15,000. In the same sale, a William IV Davenport desk that had once belonged to Oscar Wilde (est. €6,000 to €8,000) sold to a private collector based in Ireland for €29,000. A French Bateau Bed, purchased from the Exposition Universelle – The Paris World's Fair, 1878, by Oscar's mother, Lady Wilde (est. €3,000 to €4,000), sold to a private collector in the UK for €15,000. See Bonhams The Milk Cart by Paul Henry (pictured top) fetched €282,500 at Bonhams sale of Modern British & Irish Art in London on June 18. The painting is unusual for Henry in that it shows a figure on a donkey cart with milk churns against his archetypal backdrop of whitewashed cottages, turf stacks, mountains and sky. In the same sale, a portrait of Miss Bella Cullen by Sir John Lavery sold for €13,450. See Adam's A painting by the British artist Dorothea Sharp (1874-1955) more than doubled its upper estimate (est. €4,000 to €6,000) when it sold for €13,000 at Adam's on June 11. The painting – Playing in the Sand – shows a mother and children at the beach. Sharp, whose work occasionally turns up at auction in Ireland, is known for landscapes and pictures of children at play. See
Irish Examiner
07-06-2025
- Business
- Irish Examiner
Everything from dinosaurs to dining sets at two summer sales
Home or garden? The choice is yours at two appetising sales next week, the At Home online sale at James Adam in Dublin on Wednesday (June 11) and the two-day summer garden sale by Victor Mee in Cavan on the evenings of Tuesday and Wednesday. Top lots at Adam's range from Playing in the Sand (€4,000-€6,000), a lovely summer scene by Dorothea Sharp (1874-1955, through a Louis Quinze ormolu-mounted longcase clock (€3,000-€5,000), an Irish Regency oval beaded wall mirror (€3,000-€5,000) and a Milkmaid pattern Irish silver tea set (€2,500-€3,500). A wrought-iron glasshouse in Victorian style, complete with modern accoutrements like remote control glass and automated vents (€18,000-€22,000) leads the offerings at Victor Mee. A Regency oval beaded mirror at James Adam. Lifesize bronze sculptures of a horse and jockey and a galloping horse are estimated at €10,000-€20,000 each, while bronze-effect statues on pedestals of The Four Seasons, a bronze fountain with Mercury and a pair of 19th-century wrought-iron entrance gates are all estimated at €8,000-€12,000. One of the more unusual At Home lots, for use when away, is a complete set of early 20th-century 40 nautical signal flags. Originally drafted in 1855, the code is an international system of signals used by ships to convey important information on safety and navigation. The flags are in a fitted timber case with brass carrying handles and are estimated at €400-€600. With more than 500 lots, the last At Home sale before the summer features a diverse range of home objects, including a pair of brass-framed circular hall lanterns, an Edwardian club fender, and a pair of 19th-century Sitzendorf porcelain wall sconces. A bleached timber library table at James Adam. There are lots of chairs like sofas and Chesterfields, a set of eight Windsor-style oak and elmwood kitchen chairs, a pair of French 19th-century two-seater settees, a pair of red leather wingback armchairs, a George II walnut armchair, a pair of library armchairs, green leather button back chairs, a set of c1820s provincial Irish dining chairs along with Victorian and Edwardian dining chair sets. Among the artworks on offer are two botanical watercolours by Wendy Walsh and Cattle Watering by Thomas Sydney Cooper. A pair of giltwood and marble figural console tables, a bleached timber library table, Georgian and Regency dining tables, side tables and card tables feature along with collectables like silver, clock sets and a Baccarat three-light candelabra. At Victor Mee's sale, you will find exceptional urns and planters, a private collection of antique stone troughs and an obelisk gifted by the Chinese government to the Hely-Hutchinson family at Knocklofty House in Clonmel. The two-day sale features over 850 lots of garden statuary, furniture and architectural features. An obelisk gifted by the Chinese government at Victor Mee. There is a focus too on animal garden statuary with an emphasis on native Irish wildlife. This is an area of collection which the team at Victor Mee has noted is growing in popularity as animal sculptures are increasingly used to add character and whimsy to Irish gardens. Among the offerings are hares dancing, a lifesize bronze sheep, bronze pigs, a cast-iron red squirrel and a pair of boxing hares. A raptor for your garden at Victor Mee. More exotic creatures include a bronze elephant with a Dali-style decoration and a bronze velociraptor. As always, there is a good selection of antique and vintage outdoor furniture. Catalogues for both sales are online.
Irish Examiner
24-05-2025
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- Irish Examiner
Art worth millions to change hands at Dublin sales
An array of exciting choices will come up at major sales of Irish art in Dublin by Whyte's, deVeres and James Adam on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Art worth a couple of million euro is set to change hands at sales headed by Paul Henry (Whyte's), Gerard Dillon (de Veres) and Roderic O'Conor (Adam's). All are on view this weekend. A spectacular 1933 oil, Achill Horses (€70,000-€100,000) by Mainie Jellett, will create interest among serious collectors. This modern abstract style was in marked contrast to the prevailing realist mode of her contemporaries like Paul Henry and Charles Lamb. Jellett was chosen to create murals of the life and people of Ireland for the Free State Pavilion at the Empire Exhibition, Scotland, of 1938 in Glasgow. Another version of Achill Horses is included in the Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone exhibition at the National Gallery until August 10. The most expensively estimated work at all three sales is West of Ireland Bog by Paul Henry (€120,000-180,000). It is one of three works by the artist at Whyte's, where Cottages, West of Ireland (€60,000-€80,000) and Keel Bay, Achill (€50,000-€70,000) also feature. In Hill Fair at Achill Island by Letitia Hamilton (€15,000-€20,000), the viewer joins the busy scene through an uneven path between two large limestone rocks. 'West of Ireland Bog' by Paul Henry at Whyte's. There is international art by John Atkinson Grimshaw, Ferdinand Roybet, Paula Rego, Bridget Riley and Maurice Poirson as well as a sketch of James Joyce by his close friend Frank Budgen. The auction offers major works by William Leech, Dan O'Neill, Colin Middleton and George Russell, Dublin scenes by Flora Mitchell, prints by Patrick Scott, William Scott and Louis le Brocquy, sculpture by Rowan Gillespie and John Behan and work by popular artists like Kenneth Webb, Graham Knuttel, Cecil Maguire and Arthur Maderson. 'Achill Horses' by Mainie Jellett at Whyte's. The piece Little Girl's Wonder by Gerard Dillon is the top lot at the art and sculpture sale by deVeres next Tuesday. In tune with the naive style and strong use of colour for which Dillon is known, it was shown in 1955 at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in Dublin, which was established in 1943 to promote modernism in Ireland. This work is estimated at €50,000-€80,000 The sale at deVeres offers art by Louis le Brocquy, Colin Middleton, Daniel O'Neill, Patrick Collins, John Shinnors, Peter Curling, Lillian Davidson, George Russell (AE), May Guinness and Mainie Jellett. The sculpture in the auction, on view in the garden of The Merrion Hotel, includes work by Rowan Gillespie, FE McWilliam, Patrick O'Reilly, Jason Ellis and Michael Warren. 'Black and White Scarecrows' by John Shinnors at Adams. A reclining nude and a night scene of a boat in a storm, both by Roderic O'Conor and estimated respectively at €40,000-€60,000 and €15,000-€25,000, lead the sale of Important Irish Art at James Adam on Wednesday evening. A dreamlike image by Hughie O'Donoghue, The Sea, The Sea from 2003, is estimated at €15,000-€20,000. Among 100 lots on offer is The Path of the Lamb (1966), an oil on canvas commissioned by the Dominican Order for St Saviour's Church on Dominick Street in Dublin (€10,000-€15,000). The work Figures Asleep by Mary Swanzy from the 1940s (€10,000-€15,000) shows a makeshift arrangement that possibly depicts neighbours sheltering during air raids. Two arresting and contrasting works by renowned artists are the dense and restrained Black and White Scarecrows by John Shinnors (€5,000-€8,000) and Silent Gardens, a colourful piece from 1985 by Tony O'Malley (€12,000-€15,000). A bronze by Rowan Gillespie, Convict Woman (€8,000-€12,000) is based on one of the life-size figures by the artist unveiled in Hobart, Tasmania in 2017, known as the footsteps-toward-freedom statues. It represents the 13,000 convict women and 2,000 of their children who were transported to Van Diemen's Land. A selection of sculptures by John Behan and Oisin Kelly is also on offer. Viewing is underway and all catalogues are online.
Irish Independent
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
In the salerooms: A record-breaking Kashmir sapphire, Jack B Yeats and more
A sapphire and diamond ring formerly estimated between €8,000 and €12,000 fetched a record-breaking €550,000 at Adam's on May 13. The estimate increased to €150,000 to €250,000 when the gemstone was found to be from Kashmir, where it was mined in the 19th century. See Whyte's Whyte's auction of Irish & International Art takes place Monday, May 26. The highest estimate in the sale is for Paul Henry's West of Ireland Bog (Lot 18: est €120,000 to €180,000). In contrast, Achill Horses, 1933, by Mainie Jellett (Lot 37: est €70,000 to €100,000), depicts the west of Ireland in an abstract style radically different to those of her peers, Paul Henry and Charles Lamb. See Dolan's The Summer Auction of Irish Art & Whiskeys closes at Dolan's on Monday, May 26. The highlight of the sale is an oil painting by Jack B Yeats, Man Running (1947) (est €100,000 to €150,000). 'It was painted in a period when Yeats was confronting his own mortality and his paintings often centred on elderly male figures wandering across an uncultivated but impressive terrain,' writes art critic Roisin Kennedy. See Hegarty Antiques The auction of The Kingsland Collection Part II takes place live online at Hegarty Antiques on Wednesday, May 28. Highlights include some rare provincial Irish silver: a set of 10 silver dessert spoons by Patrick Connell of Limerick, circa 1785 (Lot 6: est €4,000 to €5,000); and a silver sugar castor by Daniel McCarthy of Cork circa 1770 (est €2,200 to €3,200). See
Irish Examiner
10-05-2025
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- Irish Examiner
Paintings by old masters and contemporary artists in the frame
Art from Irish old masters to the contemporary will take centre stage at auctions by Morgan O'Driscoll, on Monday, Sheppard's, on Wednesday, and James Adam, on Thursday. The catalogue cover lot for the Irish Old Masters evening sale at Adam's is an arresting portrait of Jane Bryan of Cong by Maria Spilsbury (€8,000-€10,000). The London-born artist relocated to Ireland in 1813. Her work is represented in major institutional collections like the National Gallery of Ireland, the British Museum, Tate Britain and the Museum of Methodism in London. Spilsbury painted portraits, genre scenes and religious work. Her depiction Patron's Day at the Seven Churches, Glendalough, c1816, at the National Gallery is regarded as one of the most significant visual records of early 19th-century devotional life in Ireland. Maria Spilsbury's 'Portrait of Jane Bryan of Cong' at James Adam. The most expensively estimated painting in the sale is Figures by the Temple in the Park at Mount Merrion by William Ashford (€50,000-€80,000). The auction offers a choice of Irish landscapes by artists like James Arthur O'Connor, Thomas Roberts, George Mullins, William Sadler and George Barret. There are portraits by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Nathaniel Hone, Robert Hunter and others, along with seascapes by Edwin Hayes, Richard Brydges Beechey and John Thomas Serres. The sale kicks off with six etchings and engravings by James Barry, offers a set of Malton's Views of Dublin and a preparatory scheme for the mythological murals at Lyons, Co Kildare, by Gaspare Gabrielli among 66 lots. 'Female Profile', Ya Tsai Chiu, at Morgan O'Driscoll. Two names from the east stand out in Morgan O'Driscoll's current online auction. Ya Tsai Chiu paints gracefully elongated figures that, though different, somehow recall Modigliani, while the sensitive female subjects of Zhao Kailin are endowed with a wistful, enigmatic quality. Both artists have wide appeal and thriving market records. The auction offers highly collectable works by Peter Curling, Donald Teskey, Michael Flatley, Evie Hone, Mr Brainwash, Dan O'Neill, Conor Fallon, Sean Scully and many other artists. A study The Grey Mare, Renvyle was painted in 1933 by Harry Kernoff. A le Brocquy tapestry titled Shimmering Light was woven by Donegal Carpets in 1956 and George Campbell's affectionate study of flamenco performers has all the elan of a man who could play the guitar as well as wield the brush. An Aubusson tapestry, Garlanded Goat, by le Brocquy, leads the Irish and International art auction at Sheppards with an estimate of €80,000-€120,000. Emer, a unique life-sized bronze horse by Anthony Scott, is a significant example of Irish contemporary bronze sculpture. Howard Helmick's 'Whiskey by the Hearth' at James Adam. Scott's sculpture, dedicated to the champion racehorse Sea the Stars, was unveiled at the National Stud by the late Queen Elizabeth during her State visit to Ireland. Sheppard's estimates this one at €30,000-€50,000. Among 166 lots is In Memory by Daniel O'Neill, which was last at auction at The Irish Sale at Christie's in 2007. It is now estimated at €20,000-€30,000. A rare work by William Crozier, Still Life with Jug and Shapes, painted in oil on a tin metal tray, is estimated at €2,000-€3,000. There is a similar estimate on a watercolour by Pauline Bewick, Taurus. Graham Knuttel's 'Still Life: Table Top' at Sheppard's. With art by Markey Robinson, Arthur Maderson, Evie Hone, Fr Jack Hanlon, Mark O'Neill, Henry Healy, Roderic O'Conor, Melanie le Brocquy, Michael Mulcahy, John Doherty, Michael Hales, Hughie O'Donoghue, John Luke and many more renowned Irish artists, this sale has much to hold the interest.
