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GEORGE III SEMI ELLIPTICAL SIDE TABLE
This Georgian side table is lot 38 at Adam’s timed online warehouse auction which runs until July 23. The shaped top is inlaid with a radial sunburst. The compartmented frieze has with burr walnut ovals and is cross banded in satinwood. Standing on squared tapering legs with block feet the table is estimated at just €400-€600. There are 307 lots in the sale, most will be sold without reserve in an estimate range of €80-€500.
Tim Goulding – 4 Step at Taylor Galleries.
When outside becomes too much how about finding hot art in cool galleries. There is much to feast the eyes on and plenty of food for thought at exhibitions up and down the country right now.
VI Decades is the title of a newly opened show by Tim Goulding at Taylor Galleries in Dubiln. The painter, poet and musician, who has based himself near Allihies on the Beara Peninsula since 1969, has long worked in series so a survey of six decades is of great interest. Goulding has exhibited extensively in Ireland, the UK, Portugal and the US. The show runs until August 22.
Tom Climent – Promiseful Journey at the Lavit Gallery.
Variety is the hallmark of the summer exhibition just underway at the Lavit Gallery in Cork. This group show offers painting, print, photography and craft. Up to 40 artists and makers are involved including Tom Climent, John Behan, Debbie Dawson, Victor Richardson, Rachel Joynt, Billy Foley and Johnny Bugler. You can catch it until August 29.
Quantum Listening by Trudi van der Elsen at the Limerick City Gallery until August 30 is the arresting title of a show by the multi-media artist from The Netherlands now based in the west of Ireland. The work explores the relationship between the human body and the wider world and the invisible frequencies that connect them. Working across painting, photography, video and performance the artists weaves forms of matter, agency, subjectivity and objectivity.
Trudi van der Elsen – Root System at the Limerick City Gallery of Art.
The seasonal programme at Lismore Castle Arts runs until October 25. Salon is a show of 40 paintings staged in a theatrical mise-en-scéne throughout the gallery space. There is art by Stephen McKenna, Na Kim, Lisa Brica, Andrew Cranston, Elizabeth Magill, Adam Keay, Merlin James, Karen Barbour and others in a salon like hang accompanied by informal gathering of chairs which visitors are encouraged to use.
Summer in Dublin at the Kerlin Gallery offers art by Dorothy Cross, Isabel Nolan, Sean Scully, Liliane Tomasko, Zhou Li, Guggi, Mark Francis, Callum Innes, Nathalie du Pasquier and more until August 22.
The works at Mycelium by Kate O’Shea at Visual in Carlow weave through contexts in Ireland, Scotland, Australia, Palestine and other places where her network extends to. A selection of textiles gathered during her recent time in Western Australia hand printed on at Cork Printmakers are brought together in an installation in the main gallery that marks some of her concerns like land, imperialism and networks of solidarities.
The Future is Open, which marks the 20th anniversary of Solstice Arts Centre in Navan, is a celebration of future possibilities. Alternative environments and future realities are presented through a cross-section of photography, film, sculptural installation and painting in an exhibition that continues until August 29. There is work by acclaimed artists like Grace Weir, Willie Doherty Sibyl Montague, Bernadette Kiely, Isabel Nolan and others.
Infinity Loops by Meadhbh O’Connor at 11 Parnell Square.
A spectacular new artwork by Meadhbh O’Connor has been unveiled at 11 Parnell Square, Dublin, Ireland’s new home for poetry and heritage. Funded through the per cent for art scheme Infinity Loops forms the dramatic centrepiece at the double height entrance to the historic Georgian building. Interlinked loops trace endless figure eight pathways inspired by Celtic knotwork, wrought iron detailing and the architectural language of the building. Changing with the light throughout the day the sculpture casts shifting colour, reflection and movement through the building.
This small sample of what can be seen this summer demonstrates how vibrant, challenging and open to new ideas from home and abroad mainstream art in Ireland has become. Change is happening rapidly all around us. The increased visual awareness it brings is everywhere on view.
John Behan – Famine Ship UPDATE: THIS MADE 11,500 AT HAMMER
A unique bronze Famine Ship by John Behan is among the lots at Morgan O’Driscoll’s current Irish art online auction which runs until next Monday evening (July 20). The estimate is €10,000-€15,000. Among the leading lots in this auction is art by Donald Teskey, Liam O’Neill, John Shinnors, Mainie Jellett, Markey Robinson and Graham Knuttel. There are 254 lots on offer and the catalogue is online.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time Zinedine Zidane – who won his World Cup Medal for France in 1998 and Player of the Tournament in the 2006 World Cup – will sell his first personal watch for charity at Christie’s in Geneva on November 9. The Cartier Pasha was the first watch he bought for himself at the beginning of his professional career in Bordeaux nearly 35 years ago and he has worn it ever since. It will be sold in aid of the European Leukodystrophies Association (ELA) as part of a charitable sale of watches. ELA is a non profit organisation which funds medical research, raises public awareness and provides support to families dealing with diseases that destroy the central nervous system.
‘Irish tales collected from the Best authors now extant’, compiled by Matthew Moore Graham in 1835 made a hammer price of €20,000
A manuscript book of Irish tales compiled in 1835 by Matthew Moore Graham made a hammer price of €20,000 at the book sale by Purcell Auctioneers in Birr today. The estimate was €4,000-€6,000. Graham, who was an engineer, is best remembered as a translator of Irish poetry. A Cumann na mBan autograph book from 1922 made €2,500 at hammer over an estimate of €400-800. Antiquarian books, signed limited editions, vintage postcards and Irish botanical publications featured among more than 560 lots.
Jackson Pollock’s Number 7A, 1948, the top lot at auction so far made $181.2 million at Christie’s New York in May.
The resurgence in the art market continued in the first half of 2026. Christie’s reported first half revenues of $4.6 billion. Jackson Pollock’s Number 7A 1948 made $181.2 million at Masterpieces: The Private Collection of S.I. Newhouse in May and is the top lot sold at auction in the first half of 2026.
It has also been a record half year at Sotheby’s, which reported consolidated sales of $4.4 billion, a 58% increase over the first half of 2025. Auction sales at Sotheby’s reached an all time high of $3.4 billion with bidding from 119 countries across 170 auctions.
Oliver Barker, Sotheby’s chairman, Europe, selling Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection in London.
T REX GUS SOLD FOR $50,130,000
Discovered in 2021 on a remote ranch in South Dakota Gus became the most expensive T Rex ever sold at Sotheby’s in New York today. It is 67 million years old and made $50.1 million. The bones were excavated over three summers.
(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for July 11, 2026)
Mainie Jellett (1897-1944) – Study for Fra Angelico/Announciation UPDATE: THIS MADE 14,000 AT HAMMER
This gouache and watercolour on card by Mainie Jellett is lot 18 at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish art online auction which runs until Monday, July 20. Study for Fra Angelico/Announciation is signed and dated 1927. It was once in the collection of artist Genevieve de Cissey. The estimate is €5,000-€7,000. The work was exhibited in the acclaimed exhibition The Art of Friendship: Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone at the National Gallery of Ireland in 2025.
The auction offers 254 lots of mostly Irish art.
Spring by William Crozier. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £10,880 including premium.
A collection of artworks by William Crozier will lead Bonhams Modern British and Irish art sale at Knightsbridge in London at noon on July 15. The leading lot is a classical Crozier work entitled Spring, an oil on canvas painted in 1998. The estimate is £10,000-£15,000 (€12,000-€18,000). The sale offers five from a group of six oils by Crozier commissioned by corporate collection in the UK, along with art by Nicholas Hely Hutchinson, Augustus John, Gwen John, Sir William Orpen, Micheal MacLiammoir and Anne Magill.
UPDATE: The most expensive of the Croziers sold was The Plant Room which made £15,360, The Entrance made £10,240, New Field made £8,320 and Meon Valley made £5,120. All prices quoted include premium. A watercolour pen and ink drawing by Michael MacLiammoir made £2,816 over a top estimate of £1,700.
