Monday (February 29th)
Whyte’s Art Auction, RDS, Dublin.
79 per cent of lots sold. A Kerry Bog by Paul Henry (€60,000-€80,000); Cabins by a Lough: West Of Ireland by Paul Henry, ¤54,000 (€30,000-€50,000); Early Light, Inagh Valley, Connemara by Cecil Maguire, €9,000 (€4,000-€6,000); Summer Yachting by James Humbert Craig, €9,000 (€8,000- €12,000); Western Colleen, Connemara by Harry Kernoff, €8,800 (€8,000-€12,000); The Wild Ponies of Connemara by Patrick Hennessy (below) €7,500 (€8,000-€10,000); Kehoe’s, The Rower (Co Kilkenny) by Blaise Smith, €1,700 (€1,000-€1,500). The Quay Worker’s Home by Jack B Yeats, estimated at €60,000-€80,000, was unsold.
Tuesday and Wednesday (March 1st-2nd)
Sheppard’s Irish Auction House, Durrow, Co Laois. 78 per cent of lots sold. The original artwork for a cartoon, Pole Position commissioned by and published in The Irish Times, of Anglo Irish Bank’s Seán FitzPatrick as a Formula 1 driver, €3,000 – 10 times its top estimate (¤200-¤300); a newly discovered early 19th-century estate map of
Abbeyleix manor, €2,600 (estimate €1,500-€2,500); A river landscape with a bridge, thatched cottage, figures and animals – oil on board, dated 1822, by
James Arthur O’Connor €2,800 (€3,000-€5,000); previously unseen correspondence sent in 1992 to an Irish nun, Sr Teresa of the Little Sisters of the Assumption, by Diana, Princes of Wales, €1,400 (€800-€1,200).
Wednesday (March 2nd)
Sotheby’s, London.
Property of the late Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire. 95 per cent of lots sold. A painting entitled Lismore Castle with Mrs Hammersley in the Foreground by Duncan Grant, below, £8,125 (estimate £1,500-£2,500); a first edition copy of Evelyn Waugh’s novel, Brideshead Revisited, £52,500 (£15,000-£20,000); a diamond brooch, designed as a heart pierced with an arrow, £40,000 (£7,000- £10,000); “Her Grace’s Collection of Elvis Presley Ephemera”, £4,375 ( £500-£1,000).
FORTHCOMING AUCTIONS
Tuesday (March 8th)
Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers, Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny. The Chatsworth Fine Art Sale at 10.30am. A marble fireplace, circa 1760, once housed in the front drawing room of 1798 rebellion leader Wolfe Tone at 44 Stafford Street, now Wolfe Tone Street, Dublin (€15,000-€20,000); a solid oak carved fire surround, reputedly rescued from Woodstock House, Inistioge, Co Kilkenny, home of the Tighe Family and destroyed during the Troubles in the 1920s (€2,000-¤3,000); a Chinese carved rhino horn libation cup (€3,500-€5,000).
Thursday (March 10th) Herman & Wilkinson, Rathmines, Dublin. Antiques auction at 10am. An “Irish Independent 9ct gold 75th anniversary Michael Collins medallion”, in its original box, one of only 50 struck (€600-€1,000).
