Sunday (May 15th):Dolan's Art Auction House, Pillo Hotel, Galway. Summer Shade, Provence by Annemarie Bourke €800 (€750- €1,000); A Quiet Harbourby Kenneth Webb €2,600 (€2,000-€3,000); Summer's Dayby Maurice C Wilks, €2,700 (€1,800- 2,500); Watching the Fishing Boats Returnby Markey Robinson €2,700 (€2,500–€3,000) ; Pantry Shelfby David Ffrench le Roy €1,350 (€800-€1,200).
Tuesday (May 17th):de Vere's Irish Art Auction, D4Berkeley Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. 65 per cent of lots sold. Cherub1953 (Aubusson tapestry) by Louis le Brocquy €45,000 (€45,000-€65,000); Course of the Diver 1by Hughie O'Donoghue €36,000 (€30,000-€40,000); In Awe,bronze sculpture by Rowan Gillespie €18,500 (€10,000-€15,000); Landscape Artistby Gerard Dillon €13,000 (€6,000-€9,000); Bahamas Patioby Tony OMalley €11,000 (€4,000-€6,000); Farmyard by Frank McKelvey €6,700 (€4,000-€6,000); Study of a Girlby Seán Keating €2,200 (€1,500-€2,000).
John Weldon Auctioneers, Cow’s Lane, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. An Irish silver dish ring, Dublin 1893 by Edmond Johnson (decorated in the Chinese style), €900 (€600-€900); a Limerick silver serving spoon, c1780, by Thomas Burke, €2,900 (€1,500-€2,500); a silver five-piece tea and coffee service, Dublin 1966, by Larry Gunning €1,400 (€1,000-€2,000).
Sotheby’s, Geneva. An emerald and diamond tiara, formerly in the Collection of Princess Katharina Henckel von Donnersmarck, 11.2 million Swiss Francs (€8.9 million). This was a new world auction record price for a tiara.
FORTHCOMING AUCTIONS
Monday (May 23rd): Woodview House Antiques, Ballycarney, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford. Auction at 6pm. Antique furniture, collectibles, Afghan rugs and a private collection of rare Irish, English, French, German and American antique clocks and barometers from a well-known horologist.
Wednesday (May 25th):O'Reilly's Fine Art, 126 Francis Street, Dublin 8. Jewellery Auction at 1pm. A mid-19th century diamond and blue enamel cluster ring, mounted in silver and gold. The monogram "IF" or "IE", surmounted by a crown, may refer to one or other of the Spanish princesses: Infanta Isabella or Infanta Eulalia – daughters Queen Isabella II of Spain (reigned 1833-1866), €3,000–€4,000.
Woodward’s Cook St, Cork. Antiques auction, 6pm. A cast-iron, three-tier fountain similar to that in the English Market, Cork, €2,000 –€3,000; also paintings; furniture; glassware and porcelain; silver and plate.
FORTHCOMING FAIRS
Sunday (May 22nd):Laois Antiques Fair, Heritage Hotel, Portlaoise, Co Laois. 11am-6pm.
