A select collection of works by Jack Butler Yeats and John Butler Yeats from the Model arts centre in Sligo, home of the important Niland Collection, have gone on tour for the first time with the opening of an exhibition in Wexford at the weekend.

Mitchelstown was unusually quiet on the August Bank Holiday weekend 10 years ago, as the town’s annual summer festival took an enforced hiatus amid an uncertain future.

In 2013 there were buyers available, but a shortage of work at the top end of the market, writes Des O’Sullivan.

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

Andy Warhol’s unique screenprint ‘Martha Graham, Letter to the World (The Kick) 1986’, estimated at €10,000-€14,000, is one of the most expensive lots at Morgan O’Driscoll’s art sale at the Radisson Hotel, Little Island, Cork next Monday at 6.30pm.

If there ever is a posthumous Olympic medal awarded for intransigence, then the ghost of David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley, sixth marquess of Exeter, gold medal winner at the 1928 Olympics and chairman of the organising and executive committees of the 1948 London Games, will surely float on the podium.

NAMA has instructed renowned international auction house Christie’s to sell 14 works of art reportedly owned by property developer Derek Quinlan.

Artworks owned by one of Ireland’s boom-time developers are to be sold off by renowned auction house Christie’s to repay some of his debts.

A rediscovered painting by famous Irish artist Paul Henry that was hidden from the public for 80 years is to go under the hammer, it was revealed today.

An early painting by one of Ireland’s most celebrated artists goes on public display for the first time today.

Valuable works by some of Ireland’s most sought after artists are to be sold off next month in London’s two most famous auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christie’s.

IN the heady days of the late 1990s when Irish art was new to the international market it seemed as if you could sell anything once it was from an Irish artist. It is not like that now.

A painting by Jack Butler Yeats fetched more than stg£1.1m at an auction in London today.