Auction results and forthcoming fairs

One’s portrait sold for well over estimate at Sotheby’s


Auction results

Monday, April 3rd Whyte's, Molesworth Street, Dublin 2. Online art auction with 240 lots of "affordable" art. Sixty-five per cent of lots sold. For prices achieved, see whytes.ie

Tuesday, April 4th Sotheby's, London. A complete set of Goya's La Tauromaquia – 33 prints, depicting bullfighting, described as "virtually flawless examples of the first and only contemporary edition that was printed for Goya from large copperplates etched and aquatinted by him in 1815-1816, that were recently found in a French ducal library, sold for £512,750 (estimate £300,000-£500,000).

Tuesday (April 4th) De Veres, Irish Art Auction, The Royal College of Physicians, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Eighty-six per cent of lots sold. Lot 34, Still Life (1973) by William Scott, €140,000 (€60,000-€90,000); Lot 96, From the Woods Shadow by Jack B Yeats, €82, 000 (€80,000-€120,000); Lot 112, Head of a Traveller V (Fat Bob) by Basil Blackshaw, €15,000 (€15,000-€20,000); Lot 75, Connemara Mare by Patrick Hennessy, €16,000 (€10,000-€15,000); Lot 35, Pear and Grapes by William Scott, €15,000 (€15,000-€20,000); Lot 15, Thinking of the South (France) by Camille Souter, €13,000 (€7,000-€10,000); Lot 76, The Race by Patrick Hennessy, €12,500 (€8,000-€12,000); Lot 11, Interior (1961) by Tony O'Malley €11,000 (€8,000-€12,000); Lot 19 Boats at Low Tide by William John Leech €7,100 (€5,000-€7,000); Lot 77, Out Hunting by Peter Curling, €5,000 (€5,000-€7,000). Lot 78, Guinness' Best by Erskine Nicol, estimated at €3,000-€5,000, was withdrawn prior to sale. For more results see deveres.ie

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Wednesday (April 5th) Sotheby's, New Bond Street, London. Made in Britain design auction. Lightness of Being, a 2004 photographic portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by Chris Levine £187,500 (£50,000-£70,000); an Enignum II chair by Co Cork furniture-maker Joseph Walsh €13,750 (£5,000-£7,000).

Wednesday (April 5th) Bonhams, New Bond Street, London. Design Auction including some Irish-interest items: a rare 18th-century Irish provincial silver mug, by Mark Fallon, Galway, circa 1730, sold for £15,000 (£12,000-£15,000); and a Tiffany 19th-century silver and mixed metals three-piece after-dinner coffee service, formerly the property of the 7th Viscount Powerscourt, Mervyn Wingfield (1836-1904), sold for £11,400 (estimated at £10,000-£15,000).

Forthcoming auctions

Tomorrow, Sunday (April 9th) Hegarty Auction Rooms, the Bypass, Bandon, Co Cork. Antiques auction at 4pm includes contents from Glebe House, Lisheen, Skibbereen; 300 lots. Furniture highlights include a Killarney-ware tip-up centre table, inlaid with views of Muckross House, Glena Cottage and other views, estimated at €10,000-€20,000; an Irish Regency rosewood foldover card table, with inlaid brass detail, €2,500-€3,500; a pair of art deco-style aviation armchairs €1,200-€1,800. Also art and collectibles. Viewing from noon today. Online catalogue at hegartyantiques.com.

Forthcoming fairs

Tomorrow, Sunday (April 9th) The Kerry Antiques, Art & Vintage Fair, The Earl of Desmond Hotel, Tralee, Co Kerry. 11am-6pm.