Antiques in brief
The catalogue of more than 1,000 lots features antique furniture, art, paintings, and collectibles items.
Viewing times are from 10am to 5pm today and tomorrow and from 9am to 11am on Monday.
Window Sill by WilliamJohn Leech, featured on these pages on July 23, sold for €25,500 at hammer at Dolan’s sale in Connemara on Monday.
It was the top lot on the opening day of this two day summer auction of art and antiques in a marquee at Ballyconneely. There was a large crowd at both the viewing and the auction.
A Cork silver sauceboat by Egan’s sold for €1,800 at Cork Auction Rooms last Sunday.
This 1922 piece was thought to have been a piece of Republican Silver but it turned out to have a Dublin mark which means that, though made in 1922, Egan’s managed to transport it to the assay office in Dublin during the Civil War.
Silver made during July-September 1922 could not be sent to Dublin. It was stamped locally and became known as Republican Silver.
Vintage items from a west Cork collection sold out, with enamel signs making between €300 and €400 each. The second part of this single-owner collection comes up at Cork Auction Rooms on the last Sunday in August.
The Post War and Contemporary art collection of French film director Claude Berri (Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources) comes up at Christie’s in Paris in October. The auction will coincide with the international contemporary art fair FIAC.
A highlight of the collection of more than 400 works is an untitled painting by Yves Klein. Claude Berri died in 2009. An online sale of his collection will be launched by Christie’s in October.
The first major American exhibition to explore the art of The School of London runs at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles until November 13. There are 80 paintings, drawings, and prints by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Michael Andrews, and Frank Auerbach.
