‘Celtic Phoenix’ effect as art and antiques market recoversSalerooms report their best year in a decade, and predict further gains in 2018Sat Jan 06 2018 - 06:00
As antiques market recovers, two businesses are expandingVictor Mee Auctions Ltd and Blackrock Rare Books thriving in a competitive marketSat Jan 06 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 09 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 09 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 02 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 02 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 02 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
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
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
‘By Merrion Strand’ by Yeats makes €450,000Several paintings by the artist have been sold recentlySat Nov 25 2017 - 00:00
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
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
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
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
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
Daniel O’Connell portrait and cracked jug add spice to Mealy’s eclectic saleRare German 1920s ‘Bonzo Bank’money box also among highlightsSat Nov 04 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 04 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 07 2017 - 05:00
What sold this week in fine art, antiquesWorld record price for Chinese ceramics at Sotheby’s, Hong KongSat Oct 07 2017 - 00:00
Hollywood glamour adds huge value at London auctionsVivien Leigh and Audrey Hepburn memorabilia hit record highsSat Oct 07 2017 - 00:00
One art action, three very different womenWhyte’s sale has three notable paintings of women by Orpen, Lavery and O’ConorSat Sept 30 2017 - 05:00
Will Francis Bacon’s ‘Red Pope’ break the €100m mark?‘This painting gives me a shiver down my spine,’ says Christie’s chairmanSat Sept 30 2017 - 00:00
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 Sept 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 Sept 27 2017 - 04:00
Thank Paul Henry for the original Wild Atlantic WayArtist’s compelling West of Ireland landscapes introduced Connemara to the worldSat Sept 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 Sept 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 Sept 23 2017 - 00:00
Antiques and art: Auction results and forthcoming sales1920s saphire and diamond ring fetches €22,000 at Adam’sSat Sept 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 Sept 16 2017 - 05:00
Something for every buyer (and browser) at next weekend’s RDS Antiques FairGrowing demand for Art Deco and mid-century modern reflected by sellersSat Sept 16 2017 - 00:00
Forthcoming Auctions & FairsPhotographic stills from the film ‘The Quiet Man’ more than double the estimateSat Sept 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 Sept 14 2017 - 17:04
