The bucolic guests lucky enough to be invited to sit around this magnificent dining table in latter centuries would have known to pass the port to the left. With this table on board all you really need to get the party started is a company worth megabucks, a large home and plenty of trained staff. The c1810 George III table, more than seven metres long, will lead the furniture section at Sheppards three day Coolattin House, Co. Wicklow sale on October 6, 7 and 8. The table, illustrated in Great Houses of Britain, was formerly at Easton Neston in Northamptonshire, home of Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, 2nd Baron Hesketh (1916-1955). It was acquired by the present owner at Sotheby’s Easton Neston sale in 2005.
Paintings by Paul Henry, Jack B Yeats, Mainie Jellett and Roderic O’Conor make up the top six lots at Whyte’s sale of Irish and international art in Dublin next Monday evening (September 26). The combined lower estimate on these six works is €600,000. Whyte’s reckon their sale of 156 lots will generate around €1.7 million.
A Connemara Landscape by Paul Henry with all his classical hallmarks of thatched cottages, turf stacks and high cumulus clouds is, at €150,000-€200,000, the most expensively estimated work in the sale. Crossing the City by Jack B Yeats, which made €98,000 at Whyte’s in 2012, is on the catalogue 14 years later with an estimate of €120,000-€180,000.
Nude by the Sea by Mainie Jellett
A West of Ireland Road by Henry and Against the Stream by Yeats are each estimated at €100,000-€150,000. Mainie Jellett’s Nude by the Sea, the catalogue cover lot, carries an estimate of €90,000-€120,000.
The Orchard by Roderic O’Conor, estimated at €60,000-€80,000, was one of 23 works by O’Conor included in his joint exhibition with Matthew Smith in London in 1956. This was the show which marked the beginning of his rediscovery.
More recently Long Black Train by John Shinnors (€30,000-€40,000) can be traced to the level crossing installed in 2013 at Lisnagry between Limerick city and Castleconnell.
Among the international artists on the catalogue are Carl Reichert, Thomas Blinks, Francisco Sanchez Clement, Johannes Eversen and Charles Burton-Barber. There is as well a signed mint condition limited edition copy of ‘A Bigger Book’ by the late David Hockney.
Significant works by William Conor, Aloysius O’Kelly, John Lavery, Grace Henry, George Campbell, Patrick Hennessy and John Doherty feature in a selection that includes art by Markey Robinson, Arthur Maderson, Thomas Ryan, Martin Mooney, Ciaran Clear, Kenneth Webb and many other artists.
The Place collection by Ceadogán rugs, with eleven original wall hangings created in collaboration with eleven contemporary artists, will be auctioned as lots 146-156. Artists Serena Caulfield, Tom Climent, Dorothy Cross, Guggi, Paul Hallahan, Leah Hewson, Eleanor McCaughey, Gwen O’Dowd, Kathy Prendergast, The Project Twins and Maria Simmonds-Gooding were invited to unleash their creativity and explore their relationship with the natural world. Estimates range from €2,500-€6,000.
A timed online auction by Dolan’s draws to a close from 6.30 pm next Monday evening (September 28). Along with work by artists like Harry Kernoff, John Shinnors, Arthur Maderson, Susan Cronin, William Conor, Mark O’Neill, Kenneth Webb and Eileen Meagher this auction offers some rare Irish whiskeys, Moorcroft pottery and collectibles.
Endymion by Harry Kernoff depicts a Dublin character described in Ulysses by James Joyce. It was the nickname of an eccentric named James Farrell born in Dublin in 1851. He worked for a time as an excise officer before falling into a brewery vessell and inhaling the fumes therein. All the myth and lore of this character, who set his watch by the ballast clock and saluted it with a drawn sword every day and whose bowler hat was too small, are incorporated into Kernoff’s painting.
A Scandinavian vintage leather three seater sofa, a French bleached oak kitchen cupboard, an Art Nouveau ceiling light, s large bronze model of Buddha and a selection of garden gazebos and fountains will come under the hammer at Victor Mee’s September decorative interiors online auction from 2 pm next Monday (September 28).
Among 815 lots are an Italian red leather corner sofa, some Arras style garden chairs, a 19th century pine kitchen table on square legs, a 19th century lions mask door knocker, a selection of carpets and rugs, a cast iron model of a meditating rabbit, a Victorian inlaid mahogany and satinwood work table and a circular specimen table. The catalogue is online and estimates are reasonable.
The autumn edition of the Decorative Fair at Battersea Park in London from September 29-October 4 features this collage of 19th Century French ephemera, film posters from ‘30s, ‘40s & ‘50s, graphite crayons and household paint. The collage has been placed into an antique frame which has been reworked by Huw Griffiths and is part of the overall artwork. Trained at the Camberwell School of Art his work has been collected by celebrities including Sir Bob Geldof, Noel Gallagher, Jack Vettriano, Dean Josiah Cover, professionally known as Inflo, Taylor Swift, Olga and Alex Polizzi, Andrew Scott, The Hospital Club, Chiltern Firehouse, Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Emma Watson and Bryan Ferry.
With 130 dealers taking part, the Fair presents all buyers with a wealth of objects of distinction and attitude to bring personality and individual flair to every home. Every period of design is offered, from antiquity to the present day for works of art, and from the 16th to 20th century for furniture and decoration.
Paul Henry RHA RUA (1877-1958) – Errigal, Co. Donegal made €95,000 at hammer
This striking 1929 oil on board by Paul Henry made a hammer price of €95,000 over a top estimate of €70,000 at Adams sale of important Irish art in Dublin this evening. The sepia monochromatic conception is especially significant in its rarity. Henry’s debt to James McNeill Whistler was profound: having travelled to Paris in 1898, he studied at the Académie Julian before attending Whistler’s Académie Carmen. Whistler’s insistence upon tonal harmony, restraint and the subordination of local colour to mood left a lasting impression on the younger artist. This painting of cottages beneath Mount Errigal was selected as the frontispiece to the 1932 Saorstát Éireann: Irish Free State Official Handbook, edited by Bulmer Hobson.
Other top hammer prices at the sale include the following: Cattle on a road by Gerard Dillon (€46,000); View of Pullough Bay by Paul Henry (€42,000); Kerry Interior by Sean O’Sullivan (€38,000); Roundstone by Letitia Marion Hamilton (€36,000); Connemmara Quayside with fishermen by Gerard Dillon (€30,000); The rake by Jack B Yeats (€22,000); Still Water by William John Leech (€22,000); After the Meal by Dan O’Neill (€20,000) and Design for St. Maculind window by Harry Clarke (€19,000).
ROBERT BOYLE – NEW EXPERIMENTS IN PHYSICO-MECHANICAL
London booksellers Peter Harrington are offering this 1662 second edition of Robert Boyle’s New Experiments in Physico-Mechanical containing the first announcement of Boyle’s law, his most important achievement in physics and one of the greatest contributions to physical science. The emphasis on verifiable experimentation also made it a classic in the establishment of the scientific method. The asking price is £22,000. Regarded today as the first modern chemist Boyle was born at Lismore Castle, the seventh son of the first Earl of Cork.
This oil on canvas by Susan Cronin is lot 10 at Dolan’s timed online auction which runs until September 28. The sale offers art, rare Irish whiskeys, Moorcroft pottery and collectibles and the catalogue is online. Artists in the sale include John Shinnors, Arthur Maderson, Harry Kernoff, Susan Cronin, William Conor, Charles Harper, Mark O’Neill, Maurice Wilks, Kenneth Webb, Gaetano de Gennaro, Flora Mitchell, Eileen Meagher and many others. This work by Susan Cronin carries an estimate of €2,800-€3,500.
PAIR OF IRISH PROVINCIAL SILVER SAUCE BOATS, POSSIBLY BY HENRY DOWENS, LIMERICK
This pair of Irish provincial oval sauceboats made a hammer price of £8,500 over an estimate of £600-800 at Dreweatts in Newbury, Berkshire today. On each one the marks are partially obscured. Dreweatts described them as possibly by Henry Dowens, Limerick c1780. Provincial Irish silver by Henry Dowens is exceptionally rare. The sauceboats are engraved with a crest and PH beneath. This is the crest and motto associated with the arms of the Lowry family of Pomeroy House, Co. Tyrone, descended from Robert Lowry (1660-1729) of Pomeroy House, Ahenis, Co. Tyrone.
A set of nativity figures by Bernardi of Cork UPDATE: THESE MADE €1,850 AT HAMMER
In Doneraile Aidan Foley will conduct three online evening sales next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (September 21, 22 and 12) with 924 lots from country houses including antique and vintage furniture, Persian rugs, a set of large scale nativity figures by Bernardi of Cork and Hornby train collections. With everything from a cast iron boot scraper and a silk top hat by Henry Heath of London in its original leather travelling case to a vintage tabletop pinball game, garden and outdoor furniture and a painting by the recently deceased John Schwatschke the auction these sales will appeal to all sorts of collectors.
