Francis Bacon is among the artists featuring in a major new exhibition of an eclectic range of nudes at Crawford in Cork, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

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.

Des O’Sullivan finds top names for sale in Skibbereen auction.

Des O’Sullivan reports on a September sale in London which features a strong list of top modern Irish artists.

A Terence MacSwiney play was watched over the weekend by his grandson — almost 80 years after his own mother played a lead role in the last Cork production.

Des O’Sullivan on the work of 19th century artist, James Mahony, who painted the major events of his time.

The Irish artist created an intriguing story about paintings of his lover Yvonne Aubicq, writes Des O’Sullivan.

CONVENT SALE

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

Des O’Sullivan reports on the important sale of Irish and International art in Dublin on February 23.

JOHN CREEDON presents a music show on RTÉ Radio 1 weeknights from the RTÉ Cork studios, and also the Fleadh Cheoil series on RTÉ One television on Fridays at 7.30pm.

Kya deLongchamps revels in a book which uses fascinating visual material from Irish mansions to illustrate life at that time and the dynastic tales behind the scenes

A MAJOR painting from le Brocquy’s celebrated Tinker series will lead the 23 Irish works at Sotheby’s sale of British and Irish art in London on December 10. 

OUGHT just this year The Friends of the Model by the Cork artist Harry Jones Thaddeus (1860-1929) is on display in the Masterpieces from the Collection exhibition now on at the National Gallery of Ireland.

William Scott’s Quiet Ochre painted in 1973 makes its first appearance on the auction market estimated at £100,000-€150,000.

Adam, Ahern, Black, Bolger, Brennan, Breslin — the names read like poetry under the Menin Gate. Molloy, Moran, Morgen, Mulvihill, Murphy, Murray — all buried in unknown graves in Flanders soil.

Francis Bacon made art market history in New York this week when his Three Studies of Lucian Freud sold for $142,405,000 at Christie's in New York to become the most valuable painting ever sold at auction.

An exceptional Irish longcase clock and horse drawn carriage are among the lots at Mealy’s auction at Woodview House near Ferns, Co Wexford next Tuesday, (Oct 1), at 11am.

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.

DR Éimear O’Connor has made a remarkable contribution to Irish art history. She has curated two major exhibitions of the work of 20th century artist, Seán Keating, and has written several books on him, of which the most recent is Seán Keating: Art, Politics and Building the Irish Nation.

The Crawford Art Gallery in Cork puts the work of Seán Keating in a modern context, writes Tina O’Sullivan

A lost portrait of William T Cosgrave, the president of the first Dáil, was unveiled last night for the first time in almost a century.

The boom buyers have vanished and lovers of more expensive Irish art can no longer afford it.

A CHANCE discovery in the files of a Dublin solicitors’ firm has revealed first-hand accounts of one of Ireland’s most famous artists about the horrors left in the trenches of World War I.

THE country might be in the grips of a recession but, for the next week, art lovers will be given a rare opportunity to look at a more pleasant image of Ireland.

Images of the supernatural and the uncanny are to be unveiled at a haunting exhibition in the National Gallery today.

A large collection of Irish art works is due to go on show in Dublin today ahead of its sale at auction in London next month.

THE MOST expensive agricultural property this year has to be Ballintaggart Stud, which hits the summer market with a €13 million price tag.

LAST year proved to be one of the best years for art sales in Ireland with up to €40 million worth of paintings sold.

Paintings from one of Ireland’s most prestigious art collections are to be sold in London.