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Martin Gale
Sean Scully’s Double Window to feature in upcoming Sotheby’s Paris sale
Oil on canvas executed in artist’s distinctive style has estimate of €350,000 to €550,000
RHA Annual: No wallflowers at this rowdy art party
With 600 pieces to fit in, famous names jostle for space with newcomers, but there’s no one at this party you wouldn’t be happy to go home with
Demand for Irish art is high as market ‘due a price jump’
Art auctioneer says prices down 40-50% from peak but recovery is in sight
Last chance to view Yeats treasures in Dublin before London art sales
Major art works and memorabilia being sold by the Yeats family go on show in Dublin along with top Irish paintings. All are destined to be auctioned in London
Diana photograph could be star of bank holiday sales
Irish photographer John Minihan’s famous study of Diana Spencer dates from 1980
Charles Tyrrell blends wood and metal to beautiful effect
Amorphous shapes and passages dominate, while Felim Egan tests new waters
Pieces of me: Mary Ann O’Brien, founder of Lily O’Brien’s Chocolates
‘I love our kitchen as it surrounds family and friends in a blanket of cosiness and warmth’
First auction of Basil Blackshaw paintings since artist’s death
De Veres has four lots by Blackshaw in its Irish Art Auction
Charles Tyrrell finds human fallibility in the logic of the grid | Visual art
Tyrrell’s paintings, in the tricky Uillinn gallery, aim for the ‘rightness’ of nature
A show that’s a year in the life of the RHA’s members
Against the odds, the RHA is still around, with this year’s exhibition one of its best. And despite our changing tastes, portrait painting has survived the advent of the selfie
Visual Art round-up: Back to the DeLorean, and on to the future
This week’s shows feature a mythologised car and superstition, emerging artists, and beautiful woodturning
Digging deep into the regions of Seamus Heaney’s poetry
Richard Rankin Russell’s book explores the poet’s fidelity to his birthplace in Co Derry
Dozen lots by Markey Robinson at De Veres’ auction
The prolific painter is the most popular artist at auction in Ireland and he inspires either love or hate
Martin Gale and the hidden beauty of Turlough Hill
An atmosphere of strangeness permeates artist Martin Gale’s work – which makes him the perfect choice to paint the ESB’s storage station in the Wicklow Mountains
Brought to Book: Vona Groarke on the unbearable lightness of reviews
‘What has being a writer taught me? Precision. Restraint. Slyness. Envy. Thrift. The value of a good noun’
Mane frame: equine art in the Year of the Horse
From ancient cave paintings to modern images, the horse and its representation have remained central to art and artists
Anglo Irish Bank’s modest art collection sold in Dublin
Strong demand for the surprisingly humble collection
Anglo art collection up for auction this evening
Total of 134 paintings, prints, sculpture and photographs for sale at Dublin saleroom
Anglo Irish Bank art collection to be sold at auction next month
Collection of 130 prints, paintings, sculpture and photos valued at €150,000
Late collector’s treasures to be auctioned
A busy week ahead in Dublin salerooms with major auctions at Adam’s and de Veres
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