THIS year the annual January exhibition of Turner watercolours at the National Gallery of Ireland is being complemented by works from over 20 artists inspired by the master.

Des O’Sullivan reports on stellar prices and previews upcoming sales

Des O’Sullivan previews Whyte’s sale which features a number of leading names from the Irish art world

Des O’Sullivan looks at 20th century Irish art at de Vere’s auction.

Des O’Sullivan finds a welcome in the parlour for a very fine collection of Irish art pieces sold in Dublin.

177 lots at Adams sale include Lavery, Yeats and Henry, Des O’Sullivan reports.

The Pikeman, by Jerome Connor, is for sale at Adam’s.

COLLECTORS from all corners of Ireland will converge on Limerick this weekend.

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.

A watercolour depicting the last embrace between two ill-fated lovers has been declared the nation’s favourite painting.

Irish painters such as Seán Scully and Paul Henry will go up against master Caravaggio in the battle for Ireland’s favourite painting.

Some of the most valuable paintings in state-owned AIB’s vast corporate art collection were unveiled to the public at Cork’s Crawford Art Gallery yesterday.

THREE paintings by Irish artist Jack B Yeats, owned by the Allen family of Ballymaloe House in Cork, sold for €1.38 million under the hammer in Dublin yesterday.