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35 Kildare Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
T: (353) 1 676 8300 F: - 1 676 8305

 

 

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Sale of Art
21 November 2000

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Lot 226: Madonna and Child, 1945
oil on pulp board, 39 x 51 cm

Estimate £50,000 - 70,000
Sold: £141,125

 

Lot 304: Study of Self, 1972
oil on canvas, 44 x 37 cm

Estimate £25,000 - 35,000
Sold: £45,500

 

 

Lot 305: Wounded Pigeon, 1984
oil on canvas, 38 x 46 cm

Estimate £25,000 - 35,000
Sold: £52,250

 

Lot 306: Study for Reconstructed Head of James Joyce, 1972
oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm

Estimate £25,000 - 35,000
Sold: £53,375

 

Lot307: The Bright Field, 1990
watercolour on paper, 18 x 26 cm

Estimate £4,000 - 6000
Sold: £9,200

 

Lot 308: Sunlight Field, Beara, 1988
watercolour on paper, 18 x 26 cm

Estimate £4,000 - 6000
Sold: £8,855

 

Lot 319: Male Presence, circa 1957
oil on canvas, 30 x 25 cm

Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
Sold: £27,500

 

Lot 320: Image of Samuel Beckett, 1985
watercolour on paper, 58 x 43 cm

Estimate £12,000 - 16,000
Sold: £32,000

 

Lot 310: Study Towards an image of W.B. Yeats, 1975
Aquatint, 49 x 44 cm

Estimate £1,000 - 2,000
Sold: £4,830

Important Irish Art
27 June 2000

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Lot 57: Study towards an Image of W.B. Yeats
charcoal on paper, 22 x 18 cm

Estimate £5,000 - £7,000
Sold: £14,030

 

Lot 68 : Seven acquatints printed on wove paper
Atelier de gravure de la Fondation Maeght, France
each 76 x 65 cm

illus.: la Main

Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold: £10,925

 

 

Lot 71: Borriscoole Lodge
watercolour & ink, 12 x 18 cm
opus: 54

Estimate £2,500 - £3,500
Sold: £4,830

 

The Tain
Boxed set of 3, no's 1 - 36
lithographs 54 38 cm each

Estimate £4,000 - £6,000
Sold: £10,890

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Important Irish Art
7 March 2000

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Image of Federico Garcia Lorca, 1977 - 78
oil on canvas
146 x 114 cm
artist's reference: 418
PROVENANCE: Fundacion Rodriguez-Acosta, Granada 1979
EXHIBITED: Galleria Maeght, Barcelona 1978
Galerie Kreisler Dos, Madrid 1978-79
Fundacion Rodriguez-Acosta, Granada 1979
COLLECTION: Fundacion Rodriguez-Acosta, Banco de Granada, then Banco Central
LITTERATURE: 1978/79 Claude Esteban, 88 Studies Towards an Image of Federico Garcia Lorca Gallery Maeght, Barcelona; Gallery Kreisler Dos, Madrid; Rodriguez- Acosta Foundation, Granada. Louis le Brocquy, Ward River Press, Dublin 1981, Claude Esteban, Archeology of the Face: Images of Lorca, pp. 121 to 129

The painting belongs to a series of only thirteen oil studies of F.G. Lorca, all painted between 1977 and 1978. This painting is one of only three large works of this size (all others 70 x 70 cm and 80 x 80 cm).

The two others are in permanent collections. One in the prestigious Fondation Maeght, St-Paul, the other in the artist's personal collection.

£30,000 - 40,000
Sold £36,700

 

Being, 1997
watercolour on paper
51 x 36 cm

£5,000 - 7,000
Sold £7,820

 

Woman Washing, 1997
wtaercolour on paper
36 x 26 cm

£4,000 - 6,000
Sold £6,670