Over €2 million spent at sale of Irish art at James Adam
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Over €2,000,000 was spent at the James Adam Important Irish Art sale last night. This sale included paintings from the collections of Vincent and Jacqueline O’Brien and also from the Hon. Francis D. Murnaghan.
Top lots included a hammer price of €400,000 each for Horsemen and He Reads a Book by Jack B. Yeats. The other two Yeats works, The Window with a View of the Town and Willie Reilly, sold for €250,000 and €100,000 respectively, while Orpen’s Old John’s Cottage sold for €250,000.
The two oils by Paul Henry both sold, with Connemara Landscape making €75,000 and A Bog Road in Kerry making €60,000.
Amongst the other strong prices achieved were Leo Whelan’s which made €20,000, Louis le Brocquy’s €50,000, and Aloysius O’Kelly's which hammered at €26,000.
Finally, for now, Edward Delaney’s sold for €24,000. Paintings by Paul Henry, Colin Middleton, Aloysius O'Kelly, Edward Delaney, Edwin Hayes and Kathleen Fox were among the works which sold for more than the top estimate.
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