Friday, December 02, 2011
Des O’Sullivan previews Monday’s sale of important Irish art in Dublin
Bluebeard’s Last Wife is the title of this 1921 miniature stained glass panel by Harry Clarke (1889-1931) in a cabinet by James Hicks at the James Adam sale of Irish Art in Dublin on Monday. It is estimated at €50,000-€70,000.
THERE will be huge interest in how the work of Jack B Yeats fares at the James Adam sale of important Irish art in Dublin next Monday at 6pm. His Fair Day, Mayo made €1 million in September.
This time around Adam’s is offering a number of works by Yeats, headed by Jazz Babies, estimated at €500,000-€700,000.
Among the other Yeats pieces in the auction, Evening Kildare was once owned by George Bernard Shaw. It is estimated at €30,000-€50,000.
The sale also includes Harry Clarke’s Bluebeard’s Last Wife (€50,000-€70,000). This was one of only a handful of Irish pieces included in ‘The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America’ exhibition which toured America from 2004 to 2006.
Another unusual lot is John O’Connell’s pocket watch. O’Connell was caretaker at Glasnevin Cemetery. The watch he wore features in Joyce’s Ulysses. The estimate is €8,000-€10,000.
There is also a dinner menu from the Stephen’s Green Club to celebrate the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to WB Yeats in 1923. Signed by the poet, it is estimated at €300-€500. The sale is on view today, tomorrow and Monday.
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