De Veres: 8 december
New from the Winter 2020 edition. A Basil Blackshaw painting of a fighting cock catches the eye at De Veres. Read More
Auctions
Adam’s: 9 december
New from the Winter 2020 edition. Walter Osborne was taken from us prematurely – the Dublin artist was in his prime when he caught a chill while gardening and died of pneumonia at the age of 43 Read More
Sotheby’s: 9 September
New from the Autumn 2020 edition.
The highlight of Sotheby’s September sale is Louis le Brocquy’s Travelling Woman with Newspaper, which comes from the dispersal of the collection of Michael Smurfit. Read More
Adam’s: 2 September
New from the Autumn 2020 edition.
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst is very rarely seen at auction in Ireland, although his portrait of Florence Forsyth sold at Adam’s in June 2019. Read More
Bonhams 25 March 2020
New from the Spring 2020 edition. William Crozier is an artist who defies categorisation. He was born in Glasgow to Irish parents and, in the latter part of his life, lived near Ballydehob in West Cork Read More
Preview: De Veres 31 March 2020
– [ ] New from the Spring 2020 edition. Peter Curling has followed a somewhat unconventional path as an artist. He was born in Waterford, but moved to England when he was eight years old. Read More
Previews: Bonhams 20 November 2019
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
Preview: Whyte’s 25 November 2019
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
Preview: Sotheby’s 19 November 2019
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
Preview: Adam’s 23 October, 2019
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