Home / Market reports / September 2006 Art auction market report: September 2006 In September 2006, ArtSell recorded 438 auction lots from 4 auction houses, of which 269 sold (61% sell-through). The 269 sales with a published price total $2,031,569, with a median of $2,784 (USD at the sale-date rate). The top sale was Gerard Dillon, “LITTLE GIRL'S WONDER”, at $158,175 (Whyte's). 15 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top sales # Work Artist House · date Price 1 LITTLE GIRL'S WONDER , circa 1955 Gerard Dillon Whyte's · Sep 19, 2006$158,175 (€125,000) 2 THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, COUNTY DONEGAL circa 1929-34 Paul Henry Whyte's · Sep 19, 2006$132,867 (€105,000) 3 POND IN SPRING, MAY 1994 Tony O'Malley Whyte's · Sep 19, 2006$83,516 (€66,000) 4 FAIR DAY IN ARDARA, COUNTY DONEGAL , 1965 Frank McKelvey Whyte's · Sep 19, 2006$82,251 (€65,000) 5 UNTITLED , 1993 Sean Scully Whyte's · Sep 19, 2006$80,986 (€64,000) 6 TOMaS BAKER, MOYARd , 1950 Gerard Dillon Whyte's · Sep 19, 2006$50,616 (€40,000) 7 BEING , 1997 Louis le Brocquy Whyte's · Sep 19, 2006$48,085 (€38,000) 8 STUDY TOWARDS AN IMAGE OF JAMES JOYCE , 1982 Louis le Brocquy Whyte's · Sep 19, 2006$45,554 (€36,000) 9 MARGARET , circa 1915 Sarah Purser Whyte's · Sep 19, 2006$44,289 (€35,000) 10 FIRE DANCE , 1964 Colin Middleton Whyte's · Sep 19, 2006$37,962 (€30,000) 11 TRAPEZE , 1989 John Shinnors Whyte's · Sep 19, 2006$35,431 (€28,000) 12 BUNBEG, COUNTY DONEGAL , circa 1949 Letitia Marion Hamilton Whyte's · Sep 19, 2006$31,635 (€25,000) 13 THE EDGE OF THE FOREST Colin Watson Whyte's · Sep 19, 2006$31,002 (€24,500) 14 ENTERTAINING COUNTRY GIRLS Gerard Dillon Whyte's · Sep 19, 2006$29,104 (€23,000) 15 EIGHT IRISH WRITERS , 1981 Louis le Brocquy Whyte's · Sep 19, 2006$25,308 (€20,000)
Top American artists Ranked by total of priced sales in the month; region from the artist’s recorded nationality.
Top American artists, September 2006 # Artist Total sold Priced sales Top result 1 Sean Scully American
$80,986 1 UNTITLED — $80,9862 Frank Egginton British
$8,731 2 LOUGH MELVIN FROM NEAR BUNDORAN — $5,6943 John Kingerlee American
$6,327 1 ANIMALS AND FIGURES — $6,3274 Richard Gorman American
$5,315 1 WILS PINK — $5,3155 George Freeman American
$2,531 1 JOHN GEORGE SMYLY, Q.C., 1833 and a collection of related miniatures — $2,531
Top European artists Top European artists, September 2006 # Artist Total sold Priced sales Top result 1 Gerard Dillon Irish
$258,521 6 LITTLE GIRL'S WONDER — $158,1752 Louis le Brocquy Irish
$143,243 6 BEING — $48,0853 Paul Henry Irish
$132,867 1 THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, COUNTY DONEGAL circa 1929-34 — $132,8674 Frank McKelvey Irish
$99,967 2 FAIR DAY IN ARDARA, COUNTY DONEGAL — $82,2515 Tony O'Malley Irish
$86,300 2 POND IN SPRING, MAY 1994 — $83,5166 Sarah Purser Irish
$51,122 4 MARGARET — $44,2897 Colin Watson Irish
$50,489 3 THE EDGE OF THE FOREST — $31,0028 Markey Robinson British
$48,085 5 VILLAGE ON ACHILL — $12,6549 John Shinnors Irish
$48,085 2 TRAPEZE — $35,43110 Basil Blackshaw British
$38,595 2 WHITE OBJECT III — $20,246
New artist records The artist’s best price this month exceeded every earlier priced result for them in the ArtSell database (artists with at least three earlier priced results).
Artist Work Price Previous high Tony O'Malley POND IN SPRING, MAY 1994 Whyte's $83,516 $67,518 (47 earlier) Sean Scully UNTITLED Whyte's $80,986 $44,542 (3 earlier) Martin Mooney STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS, TAPESTRY AND SILK ON WHITE Whyte's $21,512 $13,147 (5 earlier) Norman Garstin SATURDAY (JOSSELIN) and FACADE OF THE NOTRE DAME DU RONCIER, JOSSELIN, circa 1911 (A PAIR) Whyte's $17,716 $3,146 (3 earlier) Charles Brady ANTIQUE IRON Whyte's $15,818 $11,360 (22 earlier) Mainie Jellett ADORATION OF THE MADONNA AND CHILD Whyte's $10,123 $9,906 (16 earlier) Brian Bourke KNOCK A LOUGH, APRIL 1977 Whyte's $9,364 $6,741 (24 earlier) Niccolo d'Ardia Caracciolo A VIEW OVER DUBLIN Whyte's $9,111 $6,077 (5 earlier) Nevill Johnson STILL LIFE WITH FALLING LEAVES Whyte's $7,592 $3,857 (3 earlier) Harry Epworth Allen WEST OF IRELAND VILLAGE WITH DONKEY AND FIGURES Whyte's $6,580 $3,958 (6 earlier) Thurloe Conolly RATHFARNHAM BY-ROAD Whyte's $5,315 $2,260 (3 earlier) Gretta Bowen IT'S HOT INSIDE Whyte's $5,062 $4,673 (3 earlier) Erhard Hippold Elbe mit Loschwitzer Brücke Schmidt Kunstauktionen Dresden $3,178 $85 (8 earlier) Ludwig Richter Malerische Ansichten aus den Umgebungen von Rom. Schmidt Kunstauktionen Dresden $2,034 $1,151 (12 earlier) Utagawa Hiroshige The Sixty-Eight Beautiful Scenes in the Provinces of Japan Sloans & Kenyon $1,416 $700 (5 earlier)
Auction houses this month Schmidt Kunstauktionen Dresden (199) Whyte's (187) Agra-Art (48) Sloans & Kenyon (4)