There was strong interest in the sale of the Anglo Irish Bank art collection with work by some artists going for considerably more than pre-auction estimates.

Anglo Irish Bank’s corporate art collection to be sold at auction next month, has been valued at just €150,000 — a drop in the ocean compared to €25bn it cost the State to bail out the failed bank.

Details of Munch’s The Scream — one of the world’s most iconic paintings of which there are only four copies, but also the world’s most stolen painting.

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.

Conservation experts at the National Gallery of Ireland are assessing a Monet painting that was seriously damaged when a man apparently punched it yesterday.

An early masterpiece by the late legendary Irish artist Louis Le Brocquy is expected to fetch €500,000 at auction this week.

A decorative collection of arts and furnishings from Irish country houses have transformed Slane Castle into a set from a period drama.

A Jack B Yeats painting has sold for €1m after being held for seven decades out of the public eye by the same family.

A JACK B YEATS masterpiece which reappeared after almost seven decades in the same family is due to fetch up to €800,000 at auction.

A Jack B Yeats masterpiece which reappeared after almost seven decades in the same family is due to fetch up to €800,000 at auction.

The Bank of Ireland is to sell off more than 150 of its prized paintings and sculptures as hard-pressed taxpayers are hit with a €15bn plan to cut services and raise taxes.

BANK of Ireland is tostart selling its art collection after Standard & Poor’s estimated that the Government-backed recapitalising of the banking system may cost as much as €50 billion.

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.

WATERFORD hurlers are hoping that their particular form of artistry will see them lift the Liam MacCarthy Cup on Sunday for the first time since 1959.

Part of a rediscovered private art collection including unseen paintings by Jack B Yeats and Louis le Brocquy was tonight sold for €2.5m – a million euro over its pre-sale estimate.

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.

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