Bonhams will celebrate its first stand-alone sale held on the island of Ireland with The Irish Sale: Vision & Voice. Highlights will be on view at City Assembly House, Dublin from the 24 &#8211; 28 November with the sale taking place on the 28 November 2023.Bonhams will be celebrating those whose vision and voice shaped the cultural and artistic identity of Ireland through Irish art, culture, design, and history. This sale offers an exciting and rich selection of works, not least the remarkable Irish News Collection.Featuring over 30 works, The Irish News Collection will lead the sale. Formed over 40 years by the late Jim Fitzpatrick, former owner of The Irish News, Ireland's largest selling morning newspaper, the collection features Irish art from the 19th century to the modern day. Among the highlights is a portrait by Sir William Orpen (1878-1931) of his daughter Christine, universally known as Kit. Portrait of Kit, estimated at &#8364;80,000 &#8211; 120,000, was painted in 1912, when she was just six years old. Other artists represented in this impressive collection include Basil Blackshaw, Gerard Dillon, Margaret Clarke, Harry Kernoff, William Conor, Frank McKelvey, and John Behan. The sale will also feature the annotated typescripts from James Joyce's novel, Finnegans Wake. Written over a period of 17 years and first published in 1939, it was Joyce's final work. The typescripts have an estimate of &#8364;40,000-60,000.Other sale highlights include Coastal Narrative by contemporary painter Donald Teskey (Irish, born in 1956), which has an estimate of &#8364;30,000-50,000. A rare bust of Micheal Collins (1890-1922) by sculptor, Francis William Doyle Jones (British,1873-1938) with an estimate of &#8364;5,000-10,000 will also be offered.

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Modern British & Irish Art

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