Whyte’s Irish & International Art Auction on 19 October, a total of €1.6 million (including 20% Buyers’ Premium) and a selling rate of 95% of lots offered. A new world record was established for the Modernist landscape painter Paul Henry (1876-1958) whose Sunny Day Connemara oil made €420,000 hammer price (estimate €150,000 to €250,000). A stained glass panel by the Harry Clarke Studio, estimated at €3,000 to €5,000, realised €36,000 hammer price and there were many instances of lots achieving over the top estimate.
