‘Celtic Phoenix’ effect as art and antiques market recoversSalerooms report their best year in a decade, and predict further gains in 2018Sat Jan 6 2018 - 06:00
As antiques market recovers, two businesses are expandingVictor Mee Auctions Ltd and Blackrock Rare Books thriving in a competitive marketSat Jan 6 2018 - 00:00
Going, going, gone . . . for $450m in New York or €450,000 in DublinFrom a record Leonardo Da Vinci to an unsold Francis Bacon, 2017 had some memorable momentsSat Dec 30 2017 - 05:00
Stolen, found – an Old Master nativity with a colourful pastOver four centuries "The Adoration of the Shepherds" has turned up in places as diverse as Delft in Holland, a royal palace in Germany, a French château, an attic in Clondalkin and a stately home in Co WicklowSat Dec 16 2017 - 05:00
Auctions: First edition of ‘The Happy Prince’ by Oscar Wilde fetches more than €30, 000Unopened 134-year-old bottle of Jameson whiskey makes €4,800; 1st edition of ‘Ulysses’ fails to sellSat Dec 16 2017 - 00:00
Shoeless children, straw men – Victorian images of Leitrim for London auctionSotheby’s also offering a first-edition copy of ‘Ulysses’ with a top estimate of £250,000Sat Dec 9 2017 - 05:00
What sold and what’s coming up in the saleroomsPainting by Walter Osborne hits the top of its estimate and Morgan O’DriscollSat Dec 9 2017 - 00:00
‘Rags, Bones and Bottles’ – An earthier fair city in this 19th-century paintingOsborne’s view of The Liberties in Morgan O’Driscoll’s art auctionSat Dec 2 2017 - 06:00
Fine art and antiques results – Swish family RobinsonIrish paintings in demand at Whyte’s while Sheppart’s host the Maureen O’Hara CollectionSat Dec 2 2017 - 00:00
Thomas Ryan: an artist with an eye on politicsGallery honours 88-year-old painter with show of a lifetime’s workSat Dec 2 2017 - 00:00
€120,000 ring and a cut-price Dior mink – Maureen O’Hara items sold at auctionHollywood star’s jewels flew, but furs went for lessWed Nov 29 2017 - 19:00
Mosse mugs and snail plates - what sold at Mary Robinson country home sell offFormer president’s kitchenalia was snapped up but many artworks failed to sellWed Nov 29 2017 - 11:08
Lake Geneva by Lavery or the Dodder by Yeats?Irish artists take to the water in Whyte’s art auctionSat Nov 25 2017 - 05:00
Mary Robinson’s Zimbabwean art and Maureen O’Hara’s religious medals: lots of surprises go under hammerSheppard’s auction reveals very different tastes of two of Ireland’s best-known 20th-century womenSat Nov 25 2017 - 05:00
‘By Merrion Strand’ by Yeats makes €450,000Several paintings by the artist have been sold recentlySat Nov 25 2017 - 00:00
Move over Ikea – antique brown furniture is backA weekend sale at Adam’s seems to suggest that brown is back in townSat Nov 18 2017 - 06:00
Painting that once adorned Aer Lingus chairman’s office is star in Adam’s sale‘By Merrion Strand’ is now most expensive Irish painting to be offered in 2017Sat Nov 18 2017 - 06:00
Yeats, Paris nude and ‘Toymakers’ are de Veres highlightsFirst big winter art sales has plenty for art investors at range of pricesSat Nov 18 2017 - 05:00
Auctions – The Final Chapter of the Yeats Family CollectionWB Yeats’s signature ‘pince-nez’ glasses make €10,000 – more than 16 times the estimated priceSat Nov 18 2017 - 00:00
WB Yeats’s signature glasses sell for €10,000 at auctionPoet’s pinch-nose spectacles fetch price over 16 times the top estimate in KilkennyTue Nov 14 2017 - 21:14
All wrapped up for Christmas with Maureen O’Hara’s fur coatsIrish Hollywood star’s emeralds also to be sold in €500,000 Sheppard’s auctionSat Nov 11 2017 - 05:00
WB Yeats’s trademark glasses for sale at €500-€600Yet more items are to be auctioned as the family reaps a multi-million euro windfallSat Nov 11 2017 - 00:00
Auctions and fairs: A guide to this week’s eventsA rare 1920s German money-box made €8,500 in a Mealy’s auctionSat Nov 11 2017 - 00:00
Daniel O’Connell portrait and cracked jug add spice to Mealy’s eclectic saleRare German 1920s ‘Bonzo Bank’money box also among highlightsSat Nov 4 2017 - 05:00
‘The ugliest painting to come to auction for quite some time’Art critic Eamonn Mallie is selling some of his art collection including an unattractive portrait of Van MorrisonSat Nov 4 2017 - 00:00
Mary and Nick Robinson to auction 200 lotsContents of Massbrook House include furniture, pictures, crockery and garden sculptureSat Oct 28 2017 - 05:00
Art and antiques: what sold this weekAt Whyte’s, ‘Riot Soldier, Belfast’, oil-on-board, by George Campbell, fetches €5,000Sat Oct 28 2017 - 00:00
Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Saviour of the World’, sold for £45 in 1958, now for sale at $100mThe thrilling history of ‘Salvator Mundi – the Holy Grail of Old Master paintings’Sat Oct 28 2017 - 00:00
‘Captain Cook’, one of greatest finds in Irish auction historyin Kilkenny 30 years ago, a lost portrait sold for IR£27K. Months later it made £600KSat Oct 21 2017 - 05:00
‘Celtic Phoenix is well and truly in flight,’ say Whyte’s, as Paul Henry’s ‘West of Ireland Bog’ sells for €100,000Winners and losers in the autumn art auctionsSat Oct 21 2017 - 00:00
From graffiti artist to most expensive painter in AmericaAfter U2, now Yoko Ono is selling her Basquiat as prices for the artist soarSat Oct 21 2017 - 00:00
Fine Art: Vintage and retro – antiques of the futureTea trolleys and cocktail cabinets: Auction of mid-20th-century furniture in DublinSat Oct 14 2017 - 05:00
Auction results: Adam’s Townley Hall sale totals €2mAn Irish Georgian oil-on-canvas painting by George Barret Snr fetches €200,000Sat Oct 14 2017 - 00:00
Mirrors, silver and furniture in Adam’s whopping €20 catalogueDublin auctioneer to hold annual sale of some 900 lots at Townley Hall in Co LouthSat Oct 7 2017 - 05:00
What sold this week in fine art, antiquesWorld record price for Chinese ceramics at Sotheby’s, Hong KongSat Oct 7 2017 - 00:00
Hollywood glamour adds huge value at London auctionsVivien Leigh and Audrey Hepburn memorabilia hit record highsSat Oct 7 2017 - 00:00
One art action, three very different womenWhyte’s sale has three notable paintings of women by Orpen, Lavery and O’ConorSat Sep 30 2017 - 05:00
Antiques & Art: auction results and forthcoming sales and fairs‘Self-Portrait, New York’, an oil-on-canvas by John Butler Yeats, goes for just under €100,000 at Sotheby’s in London – a new auction record for the artistSat Sep 30 2017 - 00:00
Will Francis Bacon’s ‘Red Pope’ break the €100m mark?‘This painting gives me a shiver down my spine,’ says Christie’s chairmanSat Sep 30 2017 - 00:00
WB Yeats’s love letters fail to sell in London auctionPoet’s writing desk, chair and hairbrushes sold but low estimate not reached for top lotWed Sep 27 2017 - 04:00
Thank Paul Henry for the original Wild Atlantic WayArtist’s compelling West of Ireland landscapes introduced Connemara to the worldSat Sep 23 2017 - 05:00
Water Colour Society still selling after all these yearsAnnual show in Dún Laoghaire is Ireland’s largest selling exhibition of watercoloursSat Sep 23 2017 - 01:00
Wicklow collector’s stash of banknotes has some rare Lady LaverysLondon auction house sells comprehensive private collection of Irish ten-shilling notesSat Sep 23 2017 - 00:00
Antiques and art: Auction results and forthcoming sales1920s saphire and diamond ring fetches €22,000 at Adam’sSat Sep 23 2017 - 00:00
Investing in Irish art for a rainy day? It’s not without riskIrish art took a hit in the recession, but de Veres’ auction may spark fresh interestSat Sep 16 2017 - 05:00
Forthcoming Auctions & FairsPhotographic stills from the film ‘The Quiet Man’ more than double the estimateSat Sep 16 2017 - 00:00
Something for every buyer (and browser) at next weekend’s RDS Antiques FairGrowing demand for Art Deco and mid-century modern reflected by sellersSat Sep 16 2017 - 00:00
Yeats love letters, artwork goes on view in Dublin before auction200 items from the ‘Yeats Family Collection’ are being sold by WB Yeats’s grandchildrenThu Sep 14 2017 - 17:04