Antiques: Rich pickings at two Cork city auctions
A Georgian Cork sideboard with centre drawer, side presses and brass handles at Marshs today.
Auctions may not be quite like buses, but two have come along together in Cork city centre today. Woodwards kicks off online at 10am, Marshs at 11. Top lots out of 377 on offer at Woodwards include Iranian and Persian rugs and runners (€600-€1,200), longcase clocks (€400-€800), a pair of Victorian cast-iron garden urns (€700-€1,000) and a cast-iron garden bench (€500-€800).
Top furniture lots include a Georgian inlaid walnut and mahogany bureau (€250-€350), a bevelled glass-topped conservatory table (€300-€500), a Victorian demi-lune card table (€200-€300) and a George II mahogany card table (€400-€600).
At Marshs, a large French mantel clock with a bronze figure of a man is estimated at €700-€1,000, and a Georgian inlaid and crossbanded circular dining table has an estimate of €1,000-€1,500.
A large flower still life by Gerard Cooper (1898-1975), principal at Wimbledon School of Art, is estimated at €500-€700, and there is a watercolour landscape by the Cobh artist Henry Albert Hartland (€400-€800). The auction offers sets of dining chairs, mirrors, cabinets and a fine Georgian Cork sideboard estimated at just €100-€200 among 253 lots in total.
Jackson Pollock, Constantin Brancusi and Mark Rothko propelled Christie's to a record-shattering billion-dollar-plus sale in New York on Monday. The combined total from the private collection of Condé Nast co-owner SI Newhouse and the 20th Century evening sale was $1,121,126,500.
Pollock's made $181,185,000, nearly tripling his previous record.
Brancusi's made $107,585,000. Both these works were featured on these pages on May 2. At the 20th Century sale Rothko's made $98,385,000, a new record for the artist.
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