Dublin auction house James Adams is putting works by artist Mark O’Neill under the hammer in their St Stephen’s Green salesrooms on June 28 at 7pm.
The selling exhibition, which starts on Monday, and will run until the auction day, is also viewable at www.adams.ie.
Comprising 55 previously unseen paintings by Mark O’Neill, painted in the last [...]

Francis Bacon’s studies for a self- portrait, hidden in a private collection for more than two decades, will go on sale for as much as 5.5 million pounds ($10.3 million) in London on June 22.
Christie’s International is betting that the 1980 triptych painting, “Three Studies for a Self-Portrait,” will set a record for Dublin-born Bacon, [...]

Sotheby’s is staging its first sale of Irish contemporary art in the autumn. Sotheby’s Frances Christie, a specialist on 20th century British and Irish art, said Ireland’s showing at the Venice Biennale art festival was particularly impressive. She cited artists like Isabel Nolan and Stephen Brandes.

A 1903 watercolour of a captured pirate about to walk the plank made £84,000 yesterday. A smaller sketch of a young boy lying in the sand dunes reading a book about piracy reached £24,000.
An impression of the bathing lido in Venice by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941), featuring Edwardian ladies strolling with parasols on the beach, [...]

The 11th annual auction of Irish works by Sotheby’s in London raised nearly £5m. The rapid rise in prices has triggered demands for the government in Dublin to make more funds available to buy works for public galleries and prevent them being exported. The National Gallery of Ireland yesterday spent £108,000 to put on display [...]