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Irish Art Sells For
Highest Total Ever

By Maggie Holland, Editorial Assistant
January / February 2019

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In Sotheby’s in London, on November 21, a sale of Irish art from the collection of Brian P. Burns – one of the most significant collections of its kind in private hands – brought a total of $4,204,562, the highest total for a private collection of Irish art sold at auction. The transaction brought Sotheby’s overall total for Irish art sales this season to $7.7 million. The … [Read more...] about Irish Art Sells For
Highest Total Ever

Sotheby’s Irish Art Auction

By Irish America Staff
June / July 2001

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Sotheby's was hoping that art lovers wanting to brighten their walls might also want to give their bank accounts a spring cleaning when works of the 7th Irish Sale were viewed in New York, Boston, Belfast and Dublin. The show featured paintings by some of Ireland's most estimated artists including pickpocket in a Dublin pub that was painted during his last years in a nursing … [Read more...] about Sotheby’s Irish Art Auction