Variety of art in the frame at Morgan O'Driscoll auction

Des O'Sullivan checks out the wide array of paintings and sculpture

Sat, 30 Mar, 2024 - 07:00

Des O’Sullivan

Offering everything from a signed Andy Warhol and Joan Miro screenprints, contrasting approaches to landscape in views of Primrose Hill by Frank Auerbach and Union Hall by Donald Teskey, an oil on canvas by Conor Harrington, still lifes, interiors and a bravura portrait by Genieve Figgis the April 9 Irish and International sale by Morgan O'Driscoll is characterised by great variety.

The first two artworks of the 164 lots on offer, a pen drawing by Jack B Yeats redolent of an Ireland long vanished and a fairly abstract lithograph entitled Coloured Wall by Sean Scully, illustrate this diversity very well. The most expensively estimated lot is Villas Near the Sea, Cassis (1913) by Roderic O'Conor (€70,000-€100,000). At the other end of the cost scale is a 1980 photograph of Samuel Beckett by John Minihan (€300-€500) and an oil on board of The Rosses, Co Donegal, by Estella Solomons (€500-€750).