Life’s Work: Denis Lynes, antiques auctioneer, CorkTrain your eye before investing in antiquesSat Mar 18 2017 - 06:00
London sale of fine Irish antique furniture from great Irish housesDealer Patrick Jefferson has assembled an impressive range of Irish antiquesSat Mar 18 2017 - 06:00
Goya prints found by French family in their library to go on saleNewly-discovered bullfighting prints set to make more than €500,000Sat Mar 18 2017 - 06:00
Clint Eastwood portrait by Basil Blackshaw found in stableSome 40 pieces of art from Basil Blackshaw’s studio be auctioned by this monthSat Mar 11 2017 - 06:00
Horses, drink and ‘tinkers’: Images of Ireland for salePaintings of Ireland at de Veres auction include work by Basil Blackshaw and Jack B YeatsSat Mar 11 2017 - 06:00
Life’s Work: Phyllis MacNamara, antique jewellery dealer, GalwayThe joy of jewellery: After 45 years in business, Phyllis MacNamara still gets a thrill from holding a piece of jewellerySat Mar 11 2017 - 06:00
Vintage Vuitton trunk snapped up by Italian buyer at €7,500A strong start to 2017 auctions in Dublin at Adam’s and Whyte’sSat Mar 04 2017 - 06:00
Head to Durrow for the family silver and jewelsSheppard’s auction features diamond brooch given to woman in 1859Sat Mar 04 2017 - 06:00
Auction results and upcoming fairsPortrait of Down-born lord chief justice of England goes for £45,000 above estimateSat Mar 04 2017 - 06:00
LeBrocquy, Yeats and an Irish river god in spring auctionWhyte’s hoping art market recovery will continue in 2017Sat Feb 25 2017 - 06:00
Career highlights? Selling a Ming dish and the piano from Rick’s CaféPatrick Meade has sold everything from shipwreck treasure to showbiz memorabiliaSat Feb 25 2017 - 06:00
Auctions: results and forthcomingTwo paintings of significant Irish interest at Bonhams, London, 19th century art saleSat Feb 25 2017 - 06:00
Replica of Trump’s Oval Office desk in Castlecomer auctionPiece modelled on ‘Resolute’ desk made from British ship timbers has €1,500-€2,000 guideSat Feb 25 2017 - 06:00
Antiques for home and away at Adam’s auctionVintage Louis Vuitton steamer trunk or a table, chairs and dinner service for 14Sat Feb 18 2017 - 06:00
Auctions & FairsAfrican tribal mask sells for over 16 times top estimate to unnamed Irish buyersSat Feb 18 2017 - 06:00
Life’s Work: Joan Murray, antiques fairs organiser, Dublin‘We missed a ferry to Nicaragua – which was lucky as that evening we heard that the Sandinista revolution had started’Sat Feb 18 2017 - 00:00
Would you pay £1.5 million for this drawing? U2’s Adam Clayton hopes someone willSelf-portrait by the New York artist, who died aged 27, to be sold at auctionFri Feb 17 2017 - 06:00
Auction results and forthcoming salesRIC sword and Michael Collins jug both exceed estimates at Belturbet auctionSat Feb 11 2017 - 06:00
‘Love-boat’ bed star of first erotic art and design auctionSotheby’s says lots depict ‘love and sex from antiquity to the present day’Sat Feb 11 2017 - 06:00
Fine art, furs . . . and knickers - what got lost in the Easter RisingClaims for damages were made to a British committee from artists including Jack B Yeats and John LaverySat Feb 11 2017 - 06:00
Ford driven to woo Maureen O’Hara with ‘Irish’ Valentine cardFord caricatured himself on Valentine card in Irish garb with trademark sunglasses and pipeSat Feb 11 2017 - 06:00
Beattie opens new art advisory serviceFormer Bonhams executive Jane Beattie is striking out on her ownSat Feb 04 2017 - 06:00
Old Master paintings are back in fashion‘This market understands and appreciates a masterpiece when it sees one’ – Sotheby’sSat Feb 04 2017 - 06:00
Life’s Work: Christopher Mason, sculpture specialist, Sotheby’s, LondonA discovery in Ireland in 2014 ‘caused a sensation in the saleroom’Sat Feb 04 2017 - 06:00
Auction results and forthcoming salesMoorcroft china vases make 12 times top estimate of €500 at Adam’s attic auctionSat Feb 04 2017 - 06:00
True grit required to answer Ireland’s call in 1947Barney Mullan among players told to bring ‘clean white knicks’ for Scotland encounterThu Feb 02 2017 - 01:00
Auction results and forthcoming sales‘Head with Fruit – a Homage to Picasso’ sculpture expected to fetch up to €4,000Sat Jan 28 2017 - 06:00
Is Trump driving you to drink? Try his Scotch whiskyBottle of Trump single malt whisky makes £6,000 at auctionFri Jan 27 2017 - 06:00
Gerry Adams puppet “worse for wear” after five years in pub’Spitting Image’ puppets on way to museum in Northern Ireland after Dublin auctionFri Jan 27 2017 - 06:00
Auctions: forthcoming sales and fairsTemptation for the ‘Eclectic Collector’, plus jewellery, country house contents and attic clearancesSat Jan 21 2017 - 06:00
Life’s Work: Kevin Chellar, horologist and antique clocks dealer, Dublin‘We trace early Irish clocks around world . . . restore them and offer them to Irish buyers’Sat Jan 21 2017 - 06:00
‘The Monarch of the Glen’ is saved for the Scottish nationNational Gallery of Scotland to raise funds to buy iconic painting from DiageoSat Jan 21 2017 - 06:00
Want to sell art and antiques in 2017? Then get crackingAuctioneers are seeking consignments to sell, and they’re especially keen on Irish artSat Jan 21 2017 - 06:00
Life’s Work: Gráinne Pierse, antique jewellery dealer, Dublin‘I became immersed in the excitement of the business while still a schoolgirl’Sat Jan 14 2017 - 06:00
Seán Lemass and the last Irish links to the British monarchyHighlights of Whyte’s ‘Eclectic collector’ auction include Lemass’s ministerial box, Joseph Plunkett’s 1916 medal and a piece of shrapnelSat Jan 14 2017 - 06:00
Beit paintings purchased by Denis O’Brien and Lochlann Quinn to go on view next month in the National Gallery of IrelandTwo years after they were sent to London to be sold, the paintings are back in Ireland for goodSat Jan 14 2017 - 06:00
Fine Art: Portraying former US presidents in a new lightPhoto installation by Jonathan Horowitz turns the presidential portrait on its headSat Jan 07 2017 - 00:00
1950s cigarette lighter makes €4,600 at auction“Aquarium” lighter features Lucite (acrylic glass) panels decorated with aquatic plantsSat Jan 07 2017 - 00:00
Review of 2016: rising prices but no revolution in Irish art marketOrpen, Yeats, Henry and Scully continue to dominate with Flatley getting a footholdSat Dec 31 2016 - 00:00
Monet, Munch top sellers in 2016 art salesDavid Bowie’s collection included ‘Sleep Sound’ by Jack B Yeats which sold for £233,000Sat Dec 31 2016 - 00:00
Ten weird and wonderful lots that sold at auction in 2016From Roger Casement’s Kerry treasure map to Queen Victoria’s split drawersFri Dec 30 2016 - 12:00
Joseph Plunkett’s Easter Rising medal is back on sale1916 Proclamation signatory’s award to be auctioned by Whyte’s at a reduced priceFri Dec 30 2016 - 01:04
Irish buyer pays €37,000 for Cromwellian porridge bowlAnonymous bidder pays five times top estimate for extremely rare historical artefactTue Dec 27 2016 - 01:00
Sir William Orpen archive bought by National Gallery of IrelandCollection of ‘unique aesthetic and research value’ bought for ‘substantial six-figure sum’Tue Dec 20 2016 - 17:34
Sale of old masters saves Russborough HouseSell-off of paintings has raises €7m for stately homeMon Dec 19 2016 - 07:08
What became of Russborough House’s Old Masters for sale?Of the Beit paintings controversially earmarked for auction, three avoided the hammerSat Dec 17 2016 - 06:00
The Cork hero of Zulu – the war not the filmMinehan ‘remained calm . . . at one stage bayoneting a warrior who had grabbed him by the leg’Sat Dec 17 2016 - 00:00
