William Scott (1913-1989) Still Life with Fish 1955 oil on board 77.5×100.8cm
William Scott was a man who liked catching fish and eating them – especially mackerel and sardines. His son recalls him frying the fish he’d caught with the heads … Read More
Jack B Yeats (1871-1957)
Death for Only One 1937 oil on canvas 60.96×91.44cm
Ernie O’Malley is a fascinating character with a biography that would be deemed too far-fetched for fiction. Plucked from his medical studies to fight in the Easter Rising, … Read More
Jack B Yeats (1871-1957) The Stevedore 1947 oil on canvas 35x53cm
Jack B Yeats had a life-long interest in nautical types. His grandfather William Pollexfen owned a merchant shipping company in Sligo and Yeats spent a lot of his childhood there. … Read More
In his entertaining and unabashedly immodest autobiography, A Passion For Collecting, Patrick J Murphy tells us how his family caution him about his legendary generosity. Read More
May Guinness is a fascinating and paradoxically neglected figure in Irish art. Read More
The 2018/2019 Price Guide to Irish Art Sales, in association with The Doyle Collection, is the definitive guide to Irish art sales at your fingertips. Read More
New from the Spring 2019 edition.
De Vere’s Irish Art Auction on 26 March features an important work by Mainie Jellett. Read More
New from the Spring 2019 edition.
Daniel O’Neill has an equivocal reputation both in the current market place and amongst critics. Read More
New from the Autumn 2018 edition. Sotheby’s have a very exciting sale coming up on 21 November: Irish Art from the Collection of Brian P Burns. It’s rare to see so many important paintings by Irish artists on offer at the same auction. Read More
New from the Autumn 2018 edition. Barrie Cooke did a series of ‘Hot Tub’ paintings in the early 2000s. These paintings showed minor variations on the same basic theme Read More
