Antique Cork furniture, GAA memorabilia and a range of artwork are on sale, writes Des O’Sullivan.

Despite brisk bidding, Des O’Sullivan hears auctioneers are finding it difficult to source top quality works.

The winter selling season for Irish art continues apace next week with major sales by Morgan O’Driscoll at the RHA Gallery in Dublin next Monday at 6pm and by James Adam on Wednesday at 6pm.

It is one of the busiest weeks of the year, with auctions and fairs up and down the country.

Best of Sotheby’s

Des O’Sullivan says an upsurge in interest at some sales might indicate a change in Irish buying patterns.

The influence of Cezanne can be clearly seen in Roderic O’Conor’s Still Life with Apples on a White Cloth. 

Cashel sale

Des O’Sullivan investigates lots at an upcoming history sale in Dublin focusing on ‘The Year of The French’.

Des O’Sullivan says Adam’s sale includes highly collectible chess sets.

MORE than 340 lots will come under the hammer at two sales of Important Irish Art in Dublin next week.

Des O’Sullivan anticipates keen interest as Margaret Hegarty’s estate goes to auction in Dublin on Wednesday.

ANTIQUES FAIRS

Des O’Sullivan reports on a major sale of Irish art which includes a widely exhibited painting by Jack Yeats.

Des O’Sullivan previews the lots on offer at next week’s James Adam sale.

Salvador Dali’s Le Cheval a la Montre Molle (Horse Saddled with Time) is at James Adam on June 22 estimated at€11,000-€15,000.

AN early masterpiece by Roderic O’Conor will highlight the James Adam’s sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin next Wednesday, May 28, at 6pm.

Adam Attic Sale features decorative arts, Des O’Sullivan reports.

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

THE annual Country House Collections’ sale by James Adam has drawn large numbers to Slane Castle in Co Meath over the last two days.

AN 1829 watercolour by Daniel Maclise RA, (1806-1870), of a young girl at play comes up at Morgan O’Driscoll’s sale at the Clyde Court Hotel in Dublin next Monday evening.

The antique market is hotting up at the moment with a two-day National Antiques Fair getting underway at Moran’s Silver Springs Hotel in Cork today, as well as today’s auctions of history at Whyte’s, Dublin, antiques and collectibles at O’Donovan’s, Newcastle West, Co Limerick, followed tomorrow by a country house sale by de Vere’s in Rathmichael, Co Dublin, a Sunday Interiors auction at James Adam’s and an auction at the Garryvoe Hotel and sales this week in Bray, Bandon and Sixmilebridge, the autumn season is rapidly getting into top gear.

COLLECTORS never know what they might come across at a house sale.

Jack Yeats’ pen and ink drawing The Sack of Baltimore dating from 1890/91 at Whyte’s Irish art sale at the RDS next Monday (May 27).

A HUGE array of choice — everything from a two-seater Morris Minor at Mealy’s to an original copy of the Proclamation at James Adam’s — awaits collectors in Ireland next week.

GEORGIAN. Even the word has a plum-stuffed haughtiness.

At the Cottage Door, an 1875 watercolour by Cork born artist William Magrath (1838-1918) is at Adams in Dublin next Wednesday. The estimate is €1,000-€2,000.

An original printing of the Proclamation, a 35mm one-minute newsreel by Pathe of the Irish Peace Congress, an important archive of documents relating to the Wyse family of Co Waterford and the medals of Comdt Larry Lardner are among the rarities at James Adam in Dublin next Wednesday, Apr 18.

Three sales show strong interest among buyers for art, reports Des O’Sullivan

FRESH from the success of selling a million euro artwork in Dublin last week auctioneers James Adam will hold the annual Country House Collections sale at Slane Castle, Co.

A valuable painting discovered on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow is among over 170 works up for auction this week in Dublin in a sale expected to break all Irish records.

A major Irish sale of antique rugs is to go under the hammer today.

One of the biggest-ever Irish sales of antique rugs goes under the hammer this week. The auction featuring 139 carpets features an early 18th Century French tapestry that could fetch up to €25,000.

The National Museum of Ireland today snapped up 1960s Aran knitwear paintings before auction for more than €12,000.

ONE of the last portraits painted of former Taoiseach Charles Haughey goes under the hammer in Dublin this week.

One of the last portraits painted of controversial Taoiseach Charles Haughey goes under the hammer in Dublin this week.

THE tricolour used in the 1916 Easter Rising was sold yesterday to an anonymous bidder for €600,000.

A rare signed photograph of U2 taken by a world-renowned photographer went under the hammer tonight for €12,000.

A RARE political letter written by Michael Collins has fetched a record price of €28,000 at an auction in Dublin.