‘Red Rocks and Sea’ leads Irish art sale
Sotheby’s will offer 30 works of Irish art, including a rediscovered seascape by Roderic O’Conor and an important tapestry by Louis le Brocquy. Together they are estimated to bring in around €1m. While this is a far cry from the heady days of the boom, it shows that the Irish art market, though down, is far from out.
There was a time in the not too far distant past when the best individual works by artists such as le Brocquy, Lavery, O’Conor, Orpen, Yeats, and William Scott made sums of over £1m each.
