Ming vase fetched €610,000 at Sheppard’s sale – almost €500,000 over estimate

Broadcaster’s tapestries, paintings among pieces in Sotheby’s auction of Irish works

Recent results and forthcoming auctions and fairs

Results and forthcoming auctions and fairs

Portraits of Jean-Baptiste Lynch and Madame de Pompadour at Sheppard’s

Sales in London and Dublin include 11 paintings, some bought directly from Yeats

A house move is prompting Patrick and Antoinette Murphy to sell a trove of Irish art

Irish Rail services via Maynooth badly affected; National Gallery is evacuated

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A new app allows prospective buyers to visualise paintings on their own walls

First big winter art sales has plenty for art investors at range of prices

Winners and losers in the autumn art auctions

Whyte’s sale has three notable paintings of women by Orpen, Lavery and O’Conor

Sheppard’s to hold two-day house and garden auction in Co Wicklow’s Coolattin House

Auction results and forthcoming auctions

Paul Henry and Sean Keating paintings sell for €135,000 and €130,000 at Morgan O’Driscoll auction

Auction includes a Jack B Yeats painting expected to make €230,000

Irish auction houses take a breather before a busy round of sales in the run-up to Christmas

Highlights of Sotheby’s upcoming Irish Sale, plus art and antiques in Cork and jewellery in Dublin

Leech’s ‘The Housekeeper’, an oil on canvas, has an estimate of €30,000-€50,000

Four paintings by Irish artists went under the hammer and all sold at Christie’s

Paintings by Sir John Lavery, Jack B Yeats and Walter Osborne all do well

Series will end in its current form, but presenter John Kelly will return in the autumn

Good results from three big auctions in Dublin

Far from being a corporate bauble, the AIB Art Collection, featuring Sir John Lavery, Jack B Yeats and Roderic O’Conor among others, is an exceptional showcase of 20th-century Irish work

While the growth in demand for Irish art is likely to continue, their owners appear to be reluctant to sell

Lavery’s ‘The Bathing Hour, Lido, Venice’ estimated at £200,000-£300,000

Strong volume sales at the first of autumn auctions

Auctions noticeably lacking in top-quality lots

Today is a good day for Sean Keating’s charcoal drawing of his own painting, ‘The Tipperary Hurler’, to go on auction in Dublin

Lack of new homes means the art market is suffering from a shortage of wall space

2014 is likely to see continued buoyancy in the international fine art and antiques market and further improvement in Ireland

Le Brocquy painting makes just one-fifth of its 2006 value

Paintings had been consigned to sale by the heirs of the late Mervyn Solomon

Estimates for London auction of art seized from financier Derek Quinlan cut by an average of 50 per cent

Roderic O’Conor’s vision of the South of France tops the bill