You too can have U2 office furniture — and some erotica

Des O’Sullivan looks at an upcoming sale, including lots from Paul McGuinness’s office building in Dublin.

From U2 principles to erotica — online bidders and auction goers have an interesting choice of sales coming up.

In Sixmilebridge, Co Clare, Aidan Foley’s sale on February 13 will include around 200 lots from the former Principle Management Building on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, the music and management company founded by Paul McGuinness who successfully managed U2 for more than 30 years to 2013.

Among these are some good desks, leather couches, chair, lamps and luxurious office accoutrements. The auction includes lots from a period house in Askeaton with six Victorian gilt overmantels, a Victorian oval ended dining table with two extra leaves estimated at just €300-400 and chairs. There will be over 1,000 lots.

Jacopo Amigoni, Venus and Adonis, which features in Sotheby’s Erotic Passion and Desire sale in London on February 15.

Meantime, the second edition of Sotheby’s Erotic Passion and Desire sale in London on February 15 features everything from Pre-Colombian sculpture to Picasso works on paper.

Masters of photography from Man Ray to Rankin will be set against 19th-century marbles and antique reliefs.

Yves Klein, Venus Bleue (S41), blue pigment at Sotheby's.

In total there is 90 lots with a pre-sale low estimate of £3.8m. This year’s auction will be accompanied by an online sale, Erotic Art Online, which includes prints, photographs, paintings, sculpture, drawings, and film posters, and opened for bidding at Sotheby’s yesterday and runs until February 16.

A Victorian overmantle mirror at Aidan Foley’s sale in Sixmilebridge. The sale includes lots from a period house in Askeaton with six Victorian gilt overmantels.