Des O’Sullivan previews the Irish art on offer at upcoming Dublin and London salesRich pickings await collectors at two sales of Irish art in Dublin and one in London next week. The evening sale of art and sculpture at de Veres next Tuesday offers three tapestries by le Brocquy including Allegory from 1950 (€60,000-€90,000). The auction features work by artists like Patrick Scott, Mainie Jellett, Hughie O’Donoghue, Tony O’Malley, Robert Ballagh, Stephen McKenna and Sean McSweeney. Her South of France Landscape dating from around 1915 is lot 38 at the James Adam sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin on Wednesday evening. The Irish selection on offer at Bonhams Modern British and Irish art sale in London on Wednesday is headed by Yeats’ Romeo and Juliet featured last week on these pages.

Source: Irish Examiner June 09, 2019 12:56 UTC