RDS Visual Art Awards 2025: A showcase for 10 impressive new creative voices
Dealing with subjects such as our online existence, the housing crisis, and interior lives, these artists have emerged almost fully formed
Walter Osborne
Artist
A teapot for €2.4m? You’ll need a cup of tea after buying that
Rare imperial Beijing piece from the 1700s, and sabre owned by Napoleon’s brother, sold at auction
Painting Dublin: A visual history of Ireland’s capital city
Before now, emphasis was placed on rural landscape and western seaboard in Irish art. This book takes a very different approach
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
Ib Jorgensen gives personal touch to Adam’s auction
Celebrated Danish-born designer’s furniture and art collection feature at upcoming sale
Irish universities keep important artworks out of public eye
Trinity College refuses to say what paintings, sculptures kept for academic eyes only
James Bond away with the fairies: what’s coming up for sale in the auction rooms
First edition Ian Fleming books in Cork; WB Yeats’s Irish Fairy and Folk Tales in Galway
Heaney collection and some rare whiskey in Co Cavan sale
Victor Mee auction will include signed books by the Nobel prize-winning author
Give it a lash: 100 questions to test your Irishness
Win a €250 Kenny’s hamper, delivered anywhere in the world. Ah, go on, go on, go on ....
Auction results: Strong price for Rasher, drop in Louis le Brocquy
What sold and what’s coming up in the auction rooms
Auction results and forthcoming sales
David Hockney sets record in London, Irish auction houses get set for seasonal sales
Hot prices for Irish art in summer sales
Big-hitters like Yeats, Henry and Osborne now fetching prices well above pre-sale estimates
Replica of Trump’s Oval Office desk in Castlecomer auction
Piece modelled on ‘Resolute’ desk made from British ship timbers has €1,500-€2,000 guide
Paintings by William Leech and Roderic O’Conor for Mother’s Day at de Veres
Leech’s ‘The Housekeeper’, an oil on canvas, has an estimate of €30,000-€50,000
Irish art has weak restart at Sotheby’s annual sale in London
Paintings by Sir John Lavery, Jack B Yeats and Walter Osborne all do well
The long game of investing in art
Any financial windfall from art and antiques is more likely to be enjoyed by heirs and successors of the collector
Irish collectors still favour nostalgia
Household names such as Paul Henry and Walter Osborne are not just seen as sound investments; their aesthetic clearly appeals to today’s fine-art purchasers
Top price for Henry painting reflects vibrant market for Irish art
€400,000 paid for ‘The Potato Diggers’
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