The year of Jack B Yeats: artist’s 1950 ‘masterpiece’ could fetch record €2m
‘Shouting’ described as one of artist’s greatest achievements ahead of Whyte’s auction
A €15.9m 1933 Double Eagle coin among record-breaking sales
Strong six months in antiques and fine art industry despite Covid and lockdowns
Yeats, Freud and Lavery among heavyweights in Christie’s sale
Barney Eastwood collection includes important Irish and sporting pictures
These David Hockney drawings of life starting afresh are an uplifting antidote to the past year
The 83-year-old artist's new exhibition, created during lockdown, offers hope to an injured world
Devotees of Irish fine art spoiled for choice in week of auctions
Superb paintings by Walter Osborne, Paul Henry and Jack B Yeats included in four sales
Boy who painted elderly neighbour wins Texaco Children’s Art Competition
Casey Etherton (17) from Co Kerry captured Kevin Farrell on canvas for winning entry
The perfect pandemic escape in Wicklow for €550,000
A former shooting lodge in Tinahely makes a charming Victorian hideaway in a woodland setting
Art in Focus: Jack B Yeats – Two Travellers
The painting of two figures in a dramatic landscape shows the artist pushing boundaries
Garech Browne: The spendthrift Irish aristocrat who burned through millions
Guinness heir synonymous with Luggala, the Wicklow estate where he held lavish parties
Birth. Sex. Death: Francis Bacon’s tragic vision of mankind
The artist’s work is visceral yet beautiful, as a major new show in Paris makes clear
Make a culture date with Dublin 8
Festival celebrates the area’s cultural and architectural icons with talks and tours
Lucian Freud portrait of Guinness heir as a boy sells for €6.7m
‘Jewel of a painting’ dates from 1956, when Freud was a guest at Luggala, Co Wicklow
Rare Lucian Freud portrait of Guinness heir as a boy expected to sell for over €7m
Artist, who eloped with a Guinness in the early 1950s, painted portrait in Co Wicklow
Stolen Picasso found in Romania may be fake
Letter said recovered painting was a prank made by two artists and a forger
Glen Matlock: On My Culture Radar
The former Sex Pistol on Sam Neill, ‘nutty’ Tokyo and the star-studded restaurant The Wolseley
At home with Gutter Bookshop’s Bob Johnston: ‘We love antiques and bargains’
The bookseller and his husband Leon have filled their Dublin cottage with vintage finds
‘Celtic Phoenix is well and truly in flight,’ say Whyte’s, as Paul Henry’s ‘West of Ireland Bog’ sells for €100,000
Winners and losers in the autumn art auctions
Will Francis Bacon’s ‘Red Pope’ break the €100m mark?
‘This painting gives me a shiver down my spine,’ says Christie’s chairman
Lucian Freud: important retrospective comes to Imma
The 50 pieces in Freud Project are invaluable opportunity to assess British painter’s work
Keaton Henson: ‘I make grim realities more beautiful to listen to’
The reclusive singer taps the fragility, beauty and discomfort of the emotionally afflicted
‘Lost’ Francis Bacon nude found on the backs of two paintings
Artist’s portrait has been discovered on the reverse of works by Irish artist Tony O’Malley
A second family for Frank Auerbach
The artist says he coped fine with the death of both his parents in Auschwitz – but does his modus operandi suggest otherwise?
Lucian Freud painting of teenage Irish lover seeks up to £10 million
The convent schoolgirl fell for the artist, and they had two daughters
Bacon’s brilliance bound up in a new catalogue
The book will list all of Francis Bacon’s works, including 100 previously unpublished paintings
An artistic inheritance that pays off: Visual art round-up
Nick Miller was inspired by working in the late Edward McGuire’s donated studio
Visual art round-up: On the trail of Jack the Ripper in Drogheda
The 40 pieces from the UK’s Arts Council Collection on show in Drogheda are expertly chosen
Modigliani nude sells for $170.4m as art market prices soar
‘Nu Couché’ by early 20th century Italian artist makes second-highest price ever at auction
Francis Bacon: ‘Sex and painting: that was his life’
In his memoir Michael Peppiatt describes Bacon’s hedonistic and masochistic lifestyle
Freud’s portrait of ‘Brigadier’ set to sell for $30m
Painting of Andrew Parker Bowles to go on sale in New York. But what’s the Donegal connection?
Lucian Freud’s ‘Four Eggs on a Plate’ fetches almost £1m
Francis Bacon’s ‘Self-Portrait, 1975’ sells above estimates for £15.3m at Sotheby’s
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