Auction results and forthcoming eventsA signed colour print of the painting ‘Our Lady - Queen of Ireland’ by Leo Whelan sells for €700Sat Jul 30 2016 - 06:00
The art of summer in west CorkLiam O’Neill’s painting ‘Turning for Home’ the top lot in online auctionSat Jul 30 2016 - 06:00
Life’s Work: Roger Grimes, antiques dealer, Mulrany, Co Mayo‘My advice is to buy now because prices are ridiculously low but things are beginning to rise’Sat Jul 30 2016 - 06:00
Early, unknown works by Tony O’Malley at Dolan’s Galway salePaintings which recall artist’s time in New Ross will be among 500 lots auctionedSat Jul 30 2016 - 06:00
A Mermaid comes ashore on the banks of Kilkenny’s NoreSeasonal Inistioge gallery features 20th-century Irish art as well as contemporary workMon Jul 25 2016 - 11:25
Holiday art in an online auctionA novice collector could do well at an internet sale that emphasises affordable piecesSat Jul 23 2016 - 05:45
Beware of fake art deco: read up on the real thingBecause the market reputedly abounds in fakes, prospective collectors need to do their homeworkSat Jul 23 2016 - 05:45
Auction results and forthcoming salesShips’ models, a diamond spray and Georgian garden seats all exceeded their estimatesSat Jul 23 2016 - 05:45
Life’s Work: Ted Hegarty, antiques auctioneer, Bandon, Co CorkHegarty and his wife specialise in the sale of Irish furniture, silver, glass and paintingsSat Jul 23 2016 - 05:45
A rare feathered diamond tiara that screams 1920s glamourAigrette tiaras occasionally turn up for auction, but very rarely with the actual feathersSat Jul 16 2016 - 00:00
Peril and paintings: From East Germany to Irish auctionsLife’s Work: Christine Ryall, now Ireland consultant to Christie’s, escaped to West Germany with her family as a girlSat Jul 16 2016 - 00:00
The original Jaws resurfaces in SligoJust when you thought it was safe to go back in the auction house . . . A first edition of Jaws and a drawing by its author are snapped upSat Jul 16 2016 - 00:00
Auction results and forthcoming salesA Meissen porcelain ewer, circa 1880, fetches €12,000 in KilkennySat Jul 16 2016 - 00:00
Life’s Work: ‘The bookshop is a lovely life rather than a living’John Donohoe, bookseller, Athlone, Co WestmeathSat Jul 09 2016 - 00:01
Auction results and forthcoming salesThree Beit Old Masters sold at Christie’s in London, including a Rubens for £1.3mSat Jul 09 2016 - 00:00
First edition of banned Lady Chatterley’s Lover goes on sale todayHow a retired book-collecting Sligo GP managed to get a copy of DH Lawrence’s banned book while still at schoolSat Jul 09 2016 - 00:00
Rubens painting from Alfred Beit collection sold for £1.3mVenus Supplicating Jupiter by Flemish Old Master acquired by an unnamed bidderThu Jul 07 2016 - 21:42
Drawing from Beit art collection sold for €87,500Sale of ‘Aurora and Cephalus’ precedes auction of paintings by Guardi and RubensWed Jul 06 2016 - 01:00
Contents of Doon convent in Limerick to be auctionedThe auction features some 400 lots, including antique furniture, a Victorian pipe organ, a confession box, religious prints and statuesSat Jul 02 2016 - 00:00
Life’s Work: ‘Real quality endures beyond changing trends’James Gorry, a Dublin picture restorer and art dealer, shares his wisdomSat Jul 02 2016 - 00:00
It’s Groundhog Day as Beit Old Masters go back on saleThree paintings from Russborough House head back to auctionFri Jul 01 2016 - 16:30
Auction results and forthcoming salesA kilo of silver makes three times its estimate at John Weldon AuctioneersSat Jun 25 2016 - 05:00
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’Sat Jun 25 2016 - 00:00
Great country house sale at CoolattinWide variety of lots from several estates on offer with estimates from €40-€80,000Sat Jun 25 2016 - 00:00
Stolen paintings found in Wicklow ditch to be auctioned in LondonLavery, Henry and Yeats pictures found in ditch go under the hammerFri Jun 24 2016 - 08:00
Life’s work: John McGrane, Antique furniture dealer“I eventually found the money hidden underneath my own bathroom’s shower tray”Sat Jun 18 2016 - 00:00
Painting “slashed” by IRA during the Civil War restored and up for auctionPortrait shows privileged children of Oliver St John Gogarty at Connemara holiday homeSat Jun 18 2016 - 00:00
Sheppard’s ‘Rolls’ rolls into classic cars marketClassic and vintage cars widely collected in IrelandSat Jun 18 2016 - 00:00
Life’s Work: Michelle Brophy, Auctions co-ordinator, Sheppard’s, Co Laois“I should have gone to China to learn Mandarin”Sat Jun 11 2016 - 00:00
Rising ‘mugshots’ for saleRare police mugshots of Easter Rising rebels to be auctioned in London - but who is the 12th man?Sat Jun 11 2016 - 00:00
Sapphires ‘trending’ according to jewellery auctioneersPopularity partly due to the “Duchess of Cambridge effect”Sat Jun 11 2016 - 00:00
Beit paintings to be sold for Russborough House fundAuction of valuable works set for next month after being delayed following public outcryThu Jun 09 2016 - 13:34
Sir Anthony O'Reilly painting 'flipped' for big profit in Dublin art auctionPaintings that appreciate significantly in value few and far betweenSat Jun 04 2016 - 00:00
Life’s Work: Rody Keighery, antiques auctioneer, Waterford‘You never know what will turn up – or where’Sat Jun 04 2016 - 00:00
Over €2m spent in Dublin summer art auctionsPaul Henry and Jack B Yeats are still the top namesSat Jun 04 2016 - 00:00
Curtain falls on Lotabeg with more than 7,000 visitors‘Huge interest’ from both from Irish and international biddersSat May 28 2016 - 00:00
Life’s Work: Stuart Purcell, Head of collectibles, Whyte’s, Dublin‘Objects connect you to a moment in history’Sat May 28 2016 - 00:00
The Irish art of summer: Bray, Sligo or Spain?Auctions at Whyte’s and Adam’s on view this weekendSat May 28 2016 - 00:00
Bidders snap up mementos of British Empire in Cork auctionMore than 7,000 queue to see contents of ‘house that time forgot’ over three daysWed May 25 2016 - 01:00
What it went for: auction resultsA court document dated 1775 concerning Elvis Presley’s Co Wicklow ancestor William Presley for €2,300Sat May 21 2016 - 00:00
Life’s Work: Bill Canning, Victorian art dealer, Kilkenny‘Victorian art is undervalued because it has been out of fashion since the 1990s’Sat May 21 2016 - 00:00
‘Star of India’ shines at Lotabeg in Cork‘House that time forgot’ opens to public for viewingSat May 21 2016 - 00:00
First auction of Basil Blackshaw paintings since artist’s deathDe Veres has four lots by Blackshaw in its Irish Art AuctionSat May 21 2016 - 00:00
John Lavery portrait in Sotheby’s sale after 90 years in private homeIrish artist’s depiction of a woman who embraced the Jazz Age in 1920s French RivieraMon May 16 2016 - 01:00
