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Monday, April 28, 2008
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VENUE: Royal Dublin Society, Ballsbridge, Dublin,
Monday 28 April at 6pm |
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VIEWING: Preview of most lots at our galleries Saturday and Sunday 19 and 20 April 12-5pm, and Monday to Wednesday 21-23 April 11am-5pm daily. Full exhibition at the RDS 26-28 April 10am-6pm daily
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NOTES: This outstanding collection includes important works by Sir John Lavery, William Leech, Jack Butler Yeats, George Russell (“Æ”), Rose Barton, Mildred Ann Butler, Percy French, James Humbert Craig, Seán Keating, Sir Gerald Festus Kelly, Mary Swanzy, Basil Rákóczi, Gerard Dillon, George Campbell, Dan O’Neill, Colin Middleton, Patrick Hennessy, James le Jeune, Louis le Brocquy, Basil Blackshaw, Sean Scully. Robert Ballagh and Donald Teskey, Of especial interest to collectors is a rare series of works by Letitia Marion Hamilton which come directly from the artist’s family, and a small archive from a member of the Yeats family with works by John, Lily and Lolly Yeats.
Auction:
Monday 28 April 2008 at 6pm, RDS, Ballsbridge
Viewing:
A selection of works will be shown at our galleries, 38 Molesworth Street:
18 & 19 April 12-5pm, 20-22 April 9.30am-5.30pm
The complete sale is on view at the RDS 26-28 April 10am-6pm
Catalogue: On line at whytes.ie or by post at €15 |
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| Lot: 1 |
| Tony O'Malley, HRHA (1913-2003) |
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| UNTILED ABSTRACT (RED), 1968 |
| signed and dated lower right; inscribed and signed again on reverse |
| watercolour, crayon, gouache and ink on paper |
| 23 by 28cm., 9 by 11in. |
| Provenance: |
| Exhibited: Peterloo Gallery, Manchester, circa 1968, catalogue no. 39 |
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| Notes:Painted at the Ship Studio, St. Ives. |
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| Estimate: € 2500-3500 |
Price Realised: € 1900 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
| Lot: 2 |
| Tony O'Malley, HRHA (1913-2003) |
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| UNTITLED ABSTRACT (BLUE), 1968 |
| signed and dated lower right |
| watercolour, crayon and ink on paper |
| 23 by 28cm., 9 by 11in. |
| Provenance: |
| Exhibited: Peterloo Gallery, Manchester, circa 1968, catalogue no. 41 |
| Literature: |
| Notes:Painted at the Ship Studio, St. Ives |
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| Estimate: € 2500-3500 |
Price Realised: € 1900 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
| Lot: 3 |
| Tony O'Malley, HRHA (1913-2003) |
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| OCTOBER PAINTING, ST IVES, 1972 |
| signed with initials lower left; dated lower right; inscribed on reverse |
| oil on board |
| 38 by 46cm., 15 by 18.2 5in. |
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| Notes:No. 8610 in the artist's archive. |
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| Estimate: € 6000-8000 |
Price Realised: € 11000 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
| Lot: 4 |
| Tony O'Malley, HRHA (1913-2003) |
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| STILL LIFE, SEAL COTTAGE, ST IVES, 1972 |
| signed with initials lower left; dated lower right |
| watercolour, crayon and gouache |
| 18 by 25cm., 7 by 10in. |
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| Notes:No. 4721 in the artist's archive. |
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| Estimate: € 2500-3500 |
Price Realised: € 3600 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
| Lot: 5 |
| Michael Mulcahy, (b.1952) |
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| ISLANDS, 2001 |
| signed lower right; inscribed and dated on reverse |
| oil on canvas |
| 73 by 92cm., 28.7 5 by 36.2 5i |
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| Estimate: € 2000-3000 |
Price Realised: € 2000 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
| Lot: 6 |
| Martin Finnin, (b.1968) |
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| THE ADAM AND ENERGY FABLE, 2004 |
| signed and dated lower left; exhibition label on reverse |
| acrylic on paper |
| 50 by 70cm., 19.7 5 by 27.5in. |
| Provenance: Vangard Gallery, Cork; Private collection, Dublin |
| Exhibited: 'Martin Finnin: Meanwhile ... in a Foreign Land', Vangard Gallery, Cork, 7-29 January 2005, catalogue no. 4 |
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| Notes:With a copy of the exhibition catalogue on reverse. |
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| Estimate: € 3000-4000 |
Price Realised: € 3400 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
| Lot: 7 |
| Louis le Brocquy, HRHA (b.1916) |
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| JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE, 1981 |
| signed and numbered lower left |
| collotype lithograph on Rives paper (no. 66 from an edition of 100) |
| 33 by 28cm., 13 by 11in. |
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| Notes:Printed at the Imprimerie Arte Adrien Maeght, Paris, as part of the Eight Irish Writers Series. |
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| Estimate: € 3000-4000 |
Price Realised: € 1800 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
| Lot: 8 |
| John Shinnors, (b.1950) |
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| THE GYPSY |
| signed lower right |
| oil and oil pastel on card |
| 22 by 17cm., 8.75 by 6.5in. |
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| Notes:Executed circa 1987 |
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| Estimate: € 4000-6000 |
Price Realised: € 4200 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
| Lot: 9 |
| Charles Brady, HRHA (1926-1997) |
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| BOX FOR DAY DREAMS AT EVENING, 1995 |
| signed lower right; inscribed on reverse; also with exhibition label on reverse |
| oil on canvas |
| 36 by 46cm., 14 by 18in. |
| Provenance: |
| Exhibited: 'Charles Brady', Taylor Galleries, Dublin, 13-29 July 1995, catalogue no. 5; 'Charles Brady HRHA Retrospective', RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, 14 February to 24 March 2002, illustrated p. 31 of the catalogue, loaned by present owner |
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| Estimate: € 8000-12000 |
Price Realised: € 0 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
| Lot: 10 |
| Charles Brady, HRHA (1926-1997) |
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| MY WALLET, 1976 |
| signed lower right; Caldwell Gallery label on reverse |
| oil on canvas |
| 38 by 46cm., 15 by 18in. |
| Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by father of the present owner |
| Exhibited: 'Charles Brady', Tom Caldwell Gallery, Dublin, April 1976, catalogue no. 15 |
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| Notes:In the original frame of the Dawson Gallery, Dublin |
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| Estimate: € 5000-7000 |
Price Realised: € 4000 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
| Lot: 11 |
| John Kingerlee, (b.1936) |
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| BEARA LANDSCAPE, 2006 |
| signed in monogram and dated lower right |
| oil on board |
| 29 by 51cm., 11.5 by 20in. |
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| Estimate: € 12000-15000 |
Price Realised: € 9000 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
| Lot: 12 |
| Colin Harrison, (b.1939) |
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| DOG IN A CORRIDOR III |
| inscribed label on reverse |
| oil on canvas laid on board |
| 48 by 69cm., 19 by 27in. |
| Provenance: Taylor Galleries, Dublin; Grant Fine Art, Newcastle, Co. Down; Taylor de Vere's, Dublin, 30 September 1996, lot 138; Private collection |
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| Estimate: € 3000-4000 |
Price Realised: € 0 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
| Lot: 13 |
| Eamonn O'Doherty, (b.1939) |
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| PASIPHAE, 1996 |
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| bronze; unique |
| 23 by 36cm., 9.25 by 14in. |
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| Exhibited: RHA, Dublin, 1997, catalogue no. 343 (illustrated in catalogue) |
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| Notes:In Greek mythology Pasiphae was a woman who rejected the amorous advances of Zeus, who in spite placed a curse on her, causing her to fall in love with a white bull. The bull in turn spurned Pasiphae, so she disguised herself inside an artificial cow; the result of the ensuing union was the birth of the Minotaur. |
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| Estimate: € 3000-5000 |
Price Realised: € 4000 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
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| Lot: 14 |
| John Devlin, (b.1950) |
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| INTERIOR, 2001 |
| signed and dated lower right; exhibition label on reverse |
| gouache |
| 48 by 48cm., 19 by 19in. |
| Provenance: |
| Exhibited: RHA, Dublin, 2002, catalogue no. 121 |
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| Notes:Born in Dublin, John Devlin studied at NCAD and worked initially as a graphic designer for the Abbey Theatre. He began exhibiting in 1970, showing with the IELA and the Independent Artists. In 1971 he won the Carroll Award at the Living Art Exhibition, and the following year won the Alice Hammerschlag Trust Award. His work features on the front cover of Roderic Knowles’ Contemporary Irish Art (Wolfhound Press, 1982). Devlin has had solo shows with the Hendriks Gallery and the Taylor Galleries, Dublin, and exhibits annually at the RHA. Most of his time however is spent working to private commissions. He is represented in the collections of the Arts Council and IMMA (Gordon Lambert Trust) among others. |
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| Estimate: € 2000-3000 |
Price Realised: € 1900 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
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| Lot: 15 |
| Makiko Nakamura, |
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| WORD PLAY, 1997 |
| signed, inscribed and dated on reverse |
| oil on canvas |
| 91 by 91cm., 36 by 36in. |
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| Notes:Born in Gifu, Japan, Makiko Nakamura studied art in Kyoto and Nagoya. She worked initially in film editing before concentrating on painting. In 1996 she moved to Paris, where she studied print making at Atelier Contre Point and the following year took up a residency at Cite International Des Arts. From 1997-98 she was artist in residence in the fine art department, University of Pennsylvania. In 1999, attracted by the prospect of visiting the home town of Samuel Beckett, whose writings have greatly influenced her work, Nakamura came to Dublin. Since then she has had solo exhibitions at the Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin and the Ashford Gallery at the RHA, Dublin. Aidan Dunne has written of her work: “The smoky, burnished, metallic surfaces of her paintings bear traces of overall grid patterns and other methodical markings, half there, half already gone. The absolute precision of her method and the sureness of her instinct, plus the sombre presence of her work, mark her out as an artist of exceptional quality”. |
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| Estimate: € 3000-5000 |
Price Realised: € 4000 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
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| Lot: 16 |
| Donald Teskey, RHA (b.1956) |
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| PLATEAU I, 2005 |
| signed, inscribed and dated on reverse |
| oil on canvas |
| 213 by 244cm., 84 by 96in. |
| Provenance: Rubicon Gallery, Dublin; Private collection |
| Exhibited: 'Donald Teskey: Tidal Narratives', Limerick City Gallery of Art, 15 September to 15 October 2005 |
| Literature: Frank McGuinness, Aidan Dunne and Mike Fitzpatrick, Profile: Donald Teskey, Gandon Editions, Kinsale, 2005, illustrated p. 94 |
| Notes:Donald Teskey is one of Ireland’s leading contemporary painters, even though he began painting belatedly, having been long established as a graphic artist. His earliest works are virtuoso drawings of desolate city streets, and the fabric of the city, mostly Dublin, remained his central subject matter when he began to apply himself to painting. He is a hard-working perfectionist and the technical flair characteristic of his drawings is also fully evident in his handling of oil paint, which is exceptional and innovative. Never content to settle into a predictable pattern, he has consistently embraced fresh artistic challenges.
Just when it seemed that he could safely be classified as an urban artist he ventured out into the wide open spaces, visiting Cape Clear Island off the coast of West Cork and Ballycastle in North Mayo, where he stayed during a fellowship at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation. His urban landscapes had relished the drama of architectonic spaces, the intricate sculptural patterns created by jumbles of buildings, roads, bridges, canals and railways, all defined by the play of light and shadow. As it happened, he found that this pictorial language worked exceptionally well in a completely different, natural environment.
Plateau I is one of an extremely ambitious series of paintings and drawings that resulted from his exploration of the elemental Atlantic coastline. Around the village of Ballycastle, the seaward landscape in North Mayo is immense: the vast expanse of the ocean beats relentlessly against terraces of Carboniferous sandstone, exploiting fault-lines and crevices, producing patterns of geometric regularity. The hard-fought battle between sea and land is a drama that unfolds over a geological rather than a human timescale, and this painting and its companions captures the epic nature of the contest.
It’s notable that the artist realised that the scale of the subject matter required a corresponding sense of scale in its treatment, so that a great deal of his coastline works are imposingly big. But rather than being big just for the sake of it, their scale is really called for. Donald Teskey is a gestural artist, and the physicality of this painting reflects the process of its making. Though we know its location, it is not specified in the title, perhaps because the work unmistakably captures something of the essence of the West of Ireland.
Aidan Dunne
April 2008 |
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| Estimate: € 40000-60000 |
Price Realised: € 44000 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
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| Lot: 17 |
| Louis le Brocquy, HRHA (b.1916) |
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| CHILDREN IN THE WOOD, 1992 |
| signed and dated lower right; label on reverse |
| watercolour and pastel |
| 36 by 48cm., 14.2 5 by 19in. |
| Provenance: Taylor Galleries, Dublin; Private collection, Dublin |
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| Notes:Artist's number W1179. |
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| Estimate: € 30000-40000 |
Price Realised: € 29000 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
| Lot: 18 |
| Louis le Brocquy, HRHA (b.1916) |
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| RIVERRUN, PROCESSION WITH LILIES, 1992 |
| signed lower left; exhibition label on reverse |
| watercolour and pastel |
| 48 by 64cm., 19 by 25in. |
| Provenance: Taylor Galleries, Dublin; Private collection, Dublin |
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| Notes:Artist's archive no. W1223. |
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| Estimate: € 40000-50000 |
Price Realised: € 40000 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
| Lot: 19 |
| Barrie Cooke, HRHA (b.1931) |
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| BROKEN WATER, 1962 |
| signed and dated lower left; original labels on reverse |
| watercolour |
| 74 by 81cm., 29 by 32in. |
| Provenance: |
| Exhibited: IELA, Dublin, 1962, catalogue no. 90 |
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| Estimate: € 5000-7000 |
Price Realised: € 5000 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
| Lot: 20 |
| John Minihan, (b.1946) |
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| LOUIS LE BROCQUY AT MAYFAIR, LONDON, NOVEMBER 2005 |
| signed, inscribed and dated in lower margin; numbered on reverse |
| silver gelatin print, artist's proof, no. 2 of 10 |
| 36 by 36cm., 14.2 5 by 14.2 5i |
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| Estimate: € 3000-5000 |
Price Realised: € 1900 |
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| Date of Sale: 28 April 2008 |
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