Sunday (March 27th): Dolan’s Art Auction, Carlton Castletroy Park Hotel, Limerick. 90 per cent of lots sold including: Village by Markey Robinson €4,500 (€3,000–€5,000); Lone Rider by Charles Harper €2,850 (€2,500– €3,000); Farmers by Arthur K Maderson €2,600 (€2,800-€3,500); The Fair Geraldine by Jack Donovan €2,000 (€500-€700); Heading Home by Ted Jones €1,900 (€1,800-€2,500).
Tuesday (March 29th): Adam’s, 26 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2. Auction of fine period furnishings, paintings, silver and maps. 71 per cent of lots sold including: an Oriental carved cherrywood desk, €4,200 (€400-€800); an Irish late Georgian longcase mahogany clock, €4,000 (€2,000-€3,000); ; a set of six Victorian silver dinner plates, London 1838, makers marks ISH - J Hunt, stamped Storr and Mortimer, €3,300 (€2,500-€3,500); John Speed cartographer (1552-1629), Maps of the Four Provinces, €3,200 (€2,000-€3,000).
FORTHCOMING AUCTIONS
Tomorrow, Sunday (April 3rd): Drum’s of Malahide, auction of antiques, pictures, furniture, glass and collectibles at 138 Dublin Road, Sutton, Dublin 13. 2pm. A signed personal letter, dated 1947, from Taoiseach Éamon de Valera (€500-€1,000).
Hegarty Fine Art and Antiques Auctioneers, Bandon, Co Cork. Antiques auction at 4pm.
Tuesday (April 5th): Mealy’s at the Hibernian Hotel, Mallow Co Cork at 10.30am. Auction of items from Mallow Castle and other Irish country houses. 800 lots. Viewing tomorrow and Monday at Mallow Castle (not the hotel).
Ashgrove Auction Rooms, Ballybrittas, Portlaoise, Co. Laois. Antiques auction at 5.30pm.
Gormleys Art Auctions, Lisburn Road, Belfast. Auction of Irish art at 7pm.
Wednesday (April 6th): Adam’s, 26 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2. Auction of important Irish art at 6pm. An Aubusson woven tapestry, No 1 from an edition of nine, titled Travellers by Louis le Brocquy (€40,000-€60,000); A Sunny Morning in the Fields, Pont-Aven by Walter Osborne (€10,000-€15,000); An Old Fountain, Madrid by Walter Osborne (€10,000-€15,000); The Bandstand by John Doherty (€2,000-€4,000).
FORTHCOMING FAIRS
Tomorrow (April 3rd): Munster Antiques Fair, Fota Island Resort, Cork. 11am-6pm.
