Ireland

Our regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.

Our regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.

Cubist work by often-overlooked artist fuels keen bidding before heading to California.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from October 15-25, 2019.

Our regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.

Our regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from September 17-October 4, 2019.

Further to our article in this section in last week’s issue about who pays Artist’s Resale Right and how it applies to sales in the UK where the seller is an artist’s estate, ATG contacted Ireland’s collecting body The Irish Visual Artists Rights Organisation (IVARO) to clarify how this is dealt with in the Republic.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from September 10-26, 2019.

Our regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.

Our regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.

In stark contrast to the elegant dolls’ houses which took the higher bids at a recent auction (ATG No 2403), a shillelagh was evidence of violence and tragedy in 19th century Ireland.

Although catalogued as ‘Continental’, this mid-19th century porcelain figure of a seated semi-nude ballet dancer below carries impressed marks for the factory established by the English entrepreneur Francis Gardner in the town of Verbilki near Moscow in 1766.

At a collectables fair in Dublin, talk was of post-Brexit free movement of antiques from north to south.

Our regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.

ATG's regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.