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Host of famous Irish artists' work to go under hammer

Paintings from Paul Henry, Jack B Yeats, Harry Clarke and Louis le Brocquy to be sold in London this month.

Paul Henry’s A Storm in Connemara. Image: Sotheby’s.

IRISH ART LOVERS have a final chance today to see masterpieces of Irish art here before they are shipped to London for auction.

Sotheby’s will be auctioning paintings from such high-profile Irish artists as Jack B Yeats, Harry Clarke, Louis le Brocquy, Paul Henry, Cecil Maguire, Patrick Swift and Nathaniel Hone at their London auction rooms on Tuesday week, 13 November.

The price tags on all of the works are in the tens of thousands of euro with top estimates for a Sean Keating painting, entitled Fear Sorrdha (Man At Ease), rising to €100,000.

That estimate is also on Paul Henry’s A Storm in Connemara, which is one of five landscapes by Henry to go under the hammer.

The collection of paintings can be seen in Sotheby’s showrooms in Molesworth Street, Dublin today from 9.30am to 5pm.

The auction in London later in the month is a huge sale of British and Irish art, with 162 lots to be auctioned off. Some of the British artists whose work will be sold include Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Everett Millais and Ford Maddox Brown.

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    Mute Mainstream Hysteria
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    Nov 3rd 2012, 9:09 AM

    I feel an appointment with the manager of me credit union coming up. I need something to hang on my newly painted sitting room wall. Something that matches magnolia.

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    Mute Garry Fitzgerald
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    Nov 3rd 2012, 10:43 AM

    Perhaps something in Heitons Or Chadwickes would suit or if you have the time and can read, perhaps you might peruse the Argos catalogue!

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    Mute jerry slattery
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    Nov 3rd 2012, 12:52 PM

    A relative of mine had an amArt Gallery and you would be suprised with the amount of well healed people who purchased expensive paintings with that exact criteria in mind ….I do miss the Celtic Tiger

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    Mute Dave O'Shea
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    Nov 3rd 2012, 4:01 PM

    @jerry I have a gallery, how I wish those well healed would enter my gallery

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    Mute White Strand Lodge
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    Nov 3rd 2012, 9:56 AM

    Paul Henry’s work of Connemara is stunning!

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    Mute Michael G O'Reilly
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    Nov 3rd 2012, 5:32 PM

    Paul Henry is easy to forge…I will do you one for 100 euro.

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    Mute Janet Smith
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    Jan 11th 2014, 9:51 PM

    Mr. Reilly, you are not gonna fool me, but 100 Euro might be fun for you to try! Prepare to be x-rayed!

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    Mute My Two Cents
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    Nov 3rd 2012, 6:29 PM

    I won 25,000 on a scatchcard last week…anything on the lines of moderism I could look at buying??? Anything by the bray artist ‘Rasher’ for sale???

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