Going, going, gone: the top art and furniture sales of 2019

From Chinese ‘sleepers’ to a record Yeats, it has been a busy year in Irish auction rooms

Crystal chandeliers, an antique jig trap: highlights of this week’s antiques sales

Record prices paid for paintings by Jack B Yeats and Mainie Jellet

True blue razzle dazzlers that will stand the test of time

Sapphires abound in a Christmas sale of opulent jewellery

Sotheby’s €3.4m sale sets new records for Irish artists

Jack B Yeats paintings also perform well; 34 of his works are set to make auction debut

Magic carpet result in London, Cartier gems in Clontarf

Ming vase fetched €610,000 at Sheppard’s sale – almost €500,000 over estimate

Things are grim at RTÉ, and they’re going to get grimmer

Art sale and Lyric rumours distract from the savage changes needed at State broadcaster

RTÉ defends giving contract for sale of art work to Sotheby’s

Broadcaster says it will pay less commission than average to UK company Sotheby’s

Art couple’s lifelong collection for sale – but they’re not done with buying

A house move is prompting Patrick and Antoinette Murphy to sell a trove of Irish art

RTÉ to sell five piece of artworks at public auctions next month

Broadcaster recorded loss of €13m in 2018, citing the cost of ‘special events’

What it went for: auction results

Adam’s Important Irish Art Sale to include a substantial work by Sean Keating

Yeats’s very first oil painting to go on sale next month

Adam’s and De Vere’s sales offer a chance to purchase work from Ireland’s top artists

Treasure trove of postcards depicts changing face of world

Collection captures historical moments and complexities of graphic design

Mary Swanzy, one of Ireland’s leading modernist painters

Artist achieved success in her lifetime only to be relatively forgotten in death

Sean Scully sets a record in London; silver carries the day at Adam’s

Auction results and forthcoming sales

Art you can try before you buy, virtually speaking

A new app allows prospective buyers to visualise paintings on their own walls

Tuam house that was once an ‘object of wonder’ for €420,000

Front garden of 1912 house was the talk of the Galway city

Auction results and forthcoming fairs

One’s portrait sold for well over estimate at Sotheby’s

AIB banker’s private art collection goes for sale

Art lover Michael Carroll bought works by O’Malley and Souther among others

David Bowie’s Irish art to be shown in Dublin

Four paintings from late singer’s collection will be on display in RHA Gallery in advance of sale

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