Online sales of affordable art reflect current global trends

Whyte's and Morgan O'Driscoll are holding online auctions this week

Seaside Day by Brian MacMahon is on sale at Morgan O'Driscoll on Tuesday, July 1.

The Irish art market reflects global trends, and right now these trends are particularly favourable to online sales of the type that Whyte's will hold on Monday, June 30, and Morgan O'Driscoll on Tuesday, July 1.

Auctions of affordable art by popular Irish and international artists are where the market is at. The value of art sold last year went down but the number of transactions grew because of greater activity at lower levels.