Francis Bacon

Yeats, Freud and Lavery among heavyweights in Christie’s sale

Barney Eastwood collection includes important Irish and sporting pictures

Sat Jun 12 2021 - 06:00

Lockdown auction market thrives as buyers browse from home

Sale prices for Julian Friers and Patrick Pye works far exceed auctioneer’s estimations

Sat Apr 24 2021 - 06:00

Fintan O’Toole: Why we should welcome the new tribe of Anglo-Irish people

Up to half a million British people are becoming Irish citizens. They help us to recognise our own past

Tue Apr 06 2021 - 04:00

Stained glass artist adds Harry Clarke masterpiece to collection

Bluebeard’s Last Wife sold to Brian Clarke for €165,000 – double its lower estimate

Sat Apr 03 2021 - 06:00

Rite&Reason: Holy Week invites us to lift up our hearts in hope

For a second Easter, Covid finds us with frayed nerves and weariness

Tue Mar 30 2021 - 01:00

Art&Antiques: Affordable art in spring sales

First sales of the year can be a good time to find value in auction houses

Sat Feb 27 2021 - 06:00

‘I’d go for a pint with Willem de Kooning and dinner with Francis Bacon’

A new biography sheds new light on the enigma that is Francis Bacon

Sun Jan 24 2021 - 05:00

Devotees of Irish fine art spoiled for choice in week of auctions

Superb paintings by Walter Osborne, Paul Henry and Jack B Yeats included in four sales

Sat Dec 05 2020 - 06:00

Jack B Yeats’ Romeo and Juliet to headline at de Veres’ upcoming sale

Auction will be first Irish sale to offer a body of work by bohemian artist Reginald Gray

Sat Nov 28 2020 - 06:00

In a Word . . .

. . . autumn

Sat Oct 03 2020 - 00:30

Is this the ‘best ever Paul Henry landscape’?

A Sunny Day, Connemara is regarded as one of the artist’s most iconic West of Ireland scenes

Sat Sept 19 2020 - 06:00

Tiffany solitaire and Smurfit’s art: what’s coming up in art sales

London sale includes 12 works offered directly from the Yeats family

Sat Sept 05 2020 - 06:00

The battle to save an Irishman’s eclectic art collection in a London council flat

Gerry Dalton, originally from Athlone, quietly built a fantastical world of figurines, models, statues and art

Sat Aug 08 2020 - 06:00

The best artworks to see in Ireland’s reopened galleries

Feast your eyes on the classic works, or check out some completely new visual art

Wed Jul 01 2020 - 05:00

Art viewings are back for high summer sales

Auction rooms are opening again, but bids will continue online for now

Sat Jun 27 2020 - 06:00

No headsets, one-way systems: Reopening Ireland’s museums

Galleries and museums set to open alongside hairdressers in Government’s plans

Thu May 21 2020 - 05:00

Donald Clarke: Stairway to Heaven set to go on and on

Those of us disappointed at the lack of a total ban must admit there is some good news

Sat Mar 14 2020 - 05:00

Stormy seas and a king’s crush: lots of royal interest at Whyte’s

A painting of George IV’s embarkation at Dún Laoghaire, renamed Kingstown in his honour, captures grand social occasion

Sat Mar 07 2020 - 06:00

How William Harvey taught the world how the heart works

Englishman defied popular wisdom with his research of blood circulation system

Thu Dec 19 2019 - 01:00

Daughter of the Storm: Irish horror for brave young readers

Tina Callaghan’s gothic mystery set on an island off Ireland heaps drama upon drama

Fri Oct 04 2019 - 06:00