There were standout sales in 2019 but the next tier of Irish artists needs to emerge soon to maintain our high level of success at auctions, writes Des O’Sullivan

A recently discovered painting by the internationally renowned artist Jack Butler Yeats which lay hidden in a bank vault for 52 years sold for more than triple its guide price today.

A treasure trove of love, owned by one the country’s most renowned internationally known artists, lay hidden in a bank vault for decades until it was found two years ago.

Cash strapped RTÉ is still hopeful that paintings that failed to sell at Sotheby’s public auction in London will be bought privately.

A Ming masterpiece, discovered when a Cork family brought it for a routine valuation, has sold under the hammer at €610,000, €490,000 more than it was expected to fetch.

Bridget Riley's Serpentine Study 3 should serve to bring added international interest to Morgan O’Driscoll’s art auction in Dublin on October 21.

Des O’Sullivan previews the August bank holiday weekend auctions in Ballyconneely, Connemara.

A Shillelagh from the infamous massacre in the quiet Cork village of Ballinhassig in 1845 sold for a hammer price of €5,100 at Fonsie Mealy’s summer auction in Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny, last week.

Salvage, antiques and art at contents auction, writes Des O’Sullivan.