Art: Des O'Sullivan previews Morgan O'Driscoll's sale

'Turf Stacks in Connemara' by Paul Henry, and works by Bridget Riley and Banksy among the pictures on view 

Turf Stacks in Connemara by Paul Henry at Morgan O'Driscoll.

Art auctions cover an amazing range of subjects and Morgan O’Driscoll’s upcoming online sale of Irish and international art next Tuesday — on view over the next three days at the RDS — is no exception.

Nowadays turf cutting is controversial, following an EU habitats directive making cutting illegal on numerous Irish bogs. This adds a certain poignancy to one of the major lots of the auction, Paul Henry’s Turf Cutting in Connemara.