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Tony O’Malley
Crystal chandeliers, an antique jig trap: highlights of this week’s antiques sales
Record prices paid for paintings by Jack B Yeats and Mainie Jellet
Sotheby’s €3.4m sale sets new records for Irish artists
Jack B Yeats paintings also perform well; 34 of his works are set to make auction debut
Jack B Yeats: More than 30 works to go on display ahead of RDS sale
Collection held by Ernie O’Malley to be sold, as de Vere’s also hold major Irish art sale
RTÉ defends giving contract for sale of art work to Sotheby’s
Broadcaster says it will pay less commission than average to UK company Sotheby’s
RTÉ to sell five piece of artworks at public auctions next month
Broadcaster recorded loss of €13m in 2018, citing the cost of ‘special events’
Yeats’s very first oil painting to go on sale next month
Adam’s and De Vere’s sales offer a chance to purchase work from Ireland’s top artists
Auction results and forthcoming sales
David Hockney sets record in London, Irish auction houses get set for seasonal sales
Key pieces in Blackrock summer sale
A boudoir grand piano, silver and art with reasonable reserves to be found at Adams
Irish uneasy about advance of artificial intelligence, survey shows
Fewer than a third ‘fully prepared’ for society driven more by robots and algorithms
William Crozier's glorious paintings sing of Cork and colour
From land to sea, William Crozier in West Cork, and artists getting aquatic at the Glucksman Gallery
AIB banker’s private art collection goes for sale
Art lover Michael Carroll bought works by O’Malley and Souther among others
The Kilkenny art centre with a difference
Jubilant and celebratory, the Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent blends art with disability care to create a studio like no other
Ten weird and wonderful lots that sold at auction in 2016
From Roger Casement’s Kerry treasure map to Queen Victoria’s split drawers
Anthony Cronin: last link to Dublin’s bohemian literary world
Tributes paid to poet’s part in setting up Aosdána to help artists and writers
Poet and critic Anthony Cronin dies aged 88
Co Wexford born writer served as an arts adviser to former taoiseach Charles Haughey
Paul Henry painting tops Adam’s art auction with €52,000 sale
Artist’s ‘In the Western Mountains’ among the 194 lots that sold for total of €450,000
Final call for McClellands’ art
Ex-RUC man turned art dealer George McClelland and is wife Maura built up a vast art collection, the last of which is being sold
Early, unknown works by Tony O’Malley at Dolan’s Galway sale
Paintings which recall artist’s time in New Ross will be among 500 lots auctioned
Life’s Work: Morgan O’Driscoll, art auctioneer, Co Cork
‘The idea of art as a career never entered my head until a school trip to France when 15’
Top 1000: Why Dublin is the ‘Googliest’ part of Google
Five new CEOs of Top 1000 companies on driving performance, inspiring leadership and asking tricky interview questions
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 1989 – Self Portrait, by Tony O’Malley
Tony O’Malley embraced his background in the bog, and left behind initial struggles to become an artist of distinction
Unseen pub scene by Jack B Yeats depicts hospitable refuge
Adam’s auction includes a double-sided Tony O’Malley, although it’s not a Bacon this time
‘Lost’ Francis Bacon nude found on the backs of two paintings
Artist’s portrait has been discovered on the reverse of works by Irish artist Tony O’Malley
Paintings by William Leech and Roderic O’Conor for Mother’s Day at de Veres
Leech’s ‘The Housekeeper’, an oil on canvas, has an estimate of €30,000-€50,000
Three major Irish art auctions in a row to end 2015
Winter sales by Whyte’s, de Veres and Adam’s take place in Dublin
Artist couple’s personal collection to be sold
Works by sculptor Conor Fallon and painter Nancy Wynne-Jones in last auction of Dublin summer season
Art auction in Kelly’s Hotel, Rosslare
400 lots at Dolan’s auction of 20th Century and contemporary Irish art
The AIB art collection: here’s one the bankers got right
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
Dublin’s first major art auction of 2015
Mix of Irish and international art at Whyte’s auction at RDS in Dublin
Callan calling: a street that acts as a bridge to the past
The Street: A new series examines the life of four streets in Ireland. First we go to Bridge Street in the Co Kilkenny town, which is being brought back to life by locals
Artist Damien Hirst is building a town - could an Irish artist follow?
Some remote places have been transformed by the input of artists, the latest being a town in Devon planned by Damien Hirst. Could Ireland have creative hubs of its own?
What in the world is abstract art about?
It isn’t just grown-ups painting like kids or gallery-goers admiring the emperor’s new clothes: good abstract art, such as Samuel Walsh’s, tackles the ideas behind things
Mayo dusts down collection of art on Famine
Louis le Brocquy and John Behan among artists commissioned by George Moore Society
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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