Adesso

British & Irish Art

OVERVIEW

Our May auction includes outstanding works which fully display the achievements of British and Irish artists working across the 19th and 20th centuries.

Sir George Clausen’s sublime Noon in the Hayfield, a sporting masterpiece by Sir Alfred Munnings, a shimmering Cornish seascape by Dame Laura Knight, classical beauties by John William Godward and two hitherto unseen major works - Reflections by F. C. B. Cadell and Red Rocks and Sea by Roderic O’Conor - reveal the strength and depth of this collecting field. Led by Cadell, the Scottish section includes wonderful examples by the  Colourists while the leading Irish artists from the past to the present are represented by the likes of Sir William Orpen, John Butler Yeats, Paul Henry, Louis le Brocquy and Basil Blackshaw.