Sales show Irish art market gradually returning to form

Slowly, the Irish art market is climbing out of recession.

Sales show Irish art market gradually returning to form

Four sales of important Irish art over the past two weeks — at Adam’s, Whyte’s, de Vere’s and by Morgan O’Driscoll, reveal an undiminished interest in Irish art in a market where buyers want value for money.

People are not paying silly prices for Irish art. That is the stuff of booms. But any fresh-to-market work of quality is attracting numbers of bidders. The bankers — Osborne, Yeats, Paul Henry, Lavery — have proved their resilience. The most expensive painting in the latest spate of art auctions in Ireland was Walter Osborne’s The Ferry which sold for €495,000 at de Vere’s. This was the most important large landscape of Osborne’s early work and it was always going to do well.

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