Francis Bacon

Sale also features significant work by Patrick Caulfield

Bacon’s bleak vision is more in tune with the times than Bond Street’s glitzy shops

Irish banknotes also beat expectations in strong sale

Signed lithographs, etchings and screenprints in Dublin gallery’s British art sale

Jackie Stanley and her late husband, NCAD’s Campbell Bruce, were giants on art scene

If you want to stretch your legs, there are great walks north and south of the city

Assisting athletes to transition out of the Games is a vital part of the experience

German study finds feeling younger protects middle-aged against damaging stress

Barney Eastwood collection includes important Irish and sporting pictures

Sale prices for Julian Friers and Patrick Pye works far exceed auctioneer’s estimations

Up to half a million British people are becoming Irish citizens. They help us to recognise our own past

Bluebeard’s Last Wife sold to Brian Clarke for €165,000 – double its lower estimate

For a second Easter, Covid finds us with frayed nerves and weariness

First sales of the year can be a good time to find value in auction houses

A new biography sheds new light on the enigma that is Francis Bacon

Superb paintings by Walter Osborne, Paul Henry and Jack B Yeats included in four sales

Auction will be first Irish sale to offer a body of work by bohemian artist Reginald Gray

. . . autumn

A Sunny Day, Connemara is regarded as one of the artist’s most iconic West of Ireland scenes

London sale includes 12 works offered directly from the Yeats family

Gerry Dalton, originally from Athlone, quietly built a fantastical world of figurines, models, statues and art

Feast your eyes on the classic works, or check out some completely new visual art

Auction rooms are opening again, but bids will continue online for now

Galleries and museums set to open alongside hairdressers in Government’s plans

Those of us disappointed at the lack of a total ban must admit there is some good news

A painting of George IV’s embarkation at Dún Laoghaire, renamed Kingstown in his honour, captures grand social occasion

Englishman defied popular wisdom with his research of blood circulation system

Tina Callaghan’s gothic mystery set on an island off Ireland heaps drama upon drama

The artist’s work is visceral yet beautiful, as a major new show in Paris makes clear

MoLI in Newman House, Dublin opens this month featuring Joyce’s notebooks and more

Chronicler of the life and work of Picasso, Quinn became famous in his own right

Review: Guillermo del Toro produces a very agreeable horror romp to appeal to teens

Laura Kennedy: When one person tires and grows heavy the other leans down to carry them

Forthcoming sales include a Dublin 6 house clearance and a dodo skeleton from 1690

Forthcoming auctions and sales

Upcoming sales feature antique garden furniture and rare Chinese bowls

This small outcrop on the edge of Europe, with its reefs, promontories and blankets of bog is steeped in artistic history

Artists whose work was once considered too unorthodox for 1940s Ireland are well represented in spring auction

First of the year’s art and furniture auctions and Orpens for sale in London

RTÉ broadcaster on seeing David Morrissey tread the boards and his love of Francis Bacon