Ulysses top lot at sale

This copy of the ninth printing of the first edition of Joyce’s Ulysses published by Shakespeare & Co, Paris, 1927, is among the lots at Cork Auction Rooms tomorrow at noon.

AN early copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses is a feature lot at the sale at Cork Auction Rooms at South Link Business Park off the Airport Road at noon tomorrow. Dating from May 1927, it is from the 9th printing of the first edition published by Shakespeare and Co. in Paris. The estimate is €300-€400.

Antique furniture on offer includes a d-end dining table and a Victorian dining table with two extra leaves. There is a collection of Victorian oil lamps, some large Persian rugs, silver, plate, hunting prints and art by Gerard Marjoram and others.

The auction will also feature a brass telescope and a small collection of books on military history. Viewing is from 10am to 8pm today and from 9am to the start of the auction tomorrow.

Love it at the Lavitt

An auction for one of the few remaining private art galleries in Cork city takes place at the Millennium Hall in City Hall next Friday (Nov 2) at 7.30pm.

There will be 90 lots and the auctioneer is James O’Halloran of Adams. Artists including John Behan, Katherine Boucher Beug, Tom Climent, James English, Mike Fitzharris, Bridget Flannery, Tim Goulding, Eadaoin Harding Kemp, Shane Johnson, Horace Lysaght, Arthur Maderson, James McCarthy, Michael Quane, Victor Richardson, Vivienne Roche, Brian Smyth, Walter Verling, Sarah Walker, and Tom Walsh are among those to have donated work.

The auction is on view at the Lavit Gallery on Fr. Matthew St, from 10.30am to 6pm from Tuesday to Saturday. The catalogue is on-line at www.lavitgallery.com.

Irish paintings on view

IRISH paintings from Sotheby’s sale of British and Irish art in London on Nov 13 will be on view in Belfast and Dublin in the coming week. There is work by Paul Henry, Jack B. Yeats, Louis le Brocquy, Harry Clarke, William Leech and Patrick Swift, among others.

The five classical works by Paul Henry (1876 — 1958) showing the west of Ireland in various weather conditions range in estimate from a low of £40,000 to a high of £80,000. A self portrait by Sean Keating is estimated at £50,000-80,000, while an oil on canvas by Louis le Brocquy entitled Doves is estimated at £35,000-£50,000.

There are two exceptionally rare works by Harry Clarke created for John Anster’s 1925 translation of Faust, for which there were eight drawings and eight colour plates.

There will be an exhibition of the works at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast next Tuesday and Wednesday from 10am to 5pm on each day.

This will be followed by a Dublin viewing at Sotheby’s, 16 Molesworth St., from 9.30am to 6.30pm on Nov 2 and from 9.30am to 5pm on Nov 3. The auction will include a group of 40 works by the British artist Edward Seago.