Amazing Art, Ancient and Modern, in Ireland

NewYork galleriest Anya von Gosseln leads an 8 day tour to galleries & private collections not normally accessible.  The focus is on contemporary artists such as Turrell, Clemente & Baselitz.  But also enjoy Ireland's artistic heritage - Stone Age carvings, through the 18thC. golden age to great  20thC. artists such as Yeats.  The tour includes accommodation in stunning hotels, gourmet meals and luxurious transport.   From Eu3970 per person. Approx US $5900

Art in Ireland, 4,000 to 6,000 years ago
Gold Tara Newgrange

Day 1

Arrive Dublin in the early Morning. Your guide will meet you in the arrivals hall of the airport and bring you in a luxury coach for an  overview of the city.  Visit the prehistoric gold at the National Museum .   Light lunch at the Chester Beatty Library - an art museum and library which houses the great collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and some decorative arts assembled by Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968). The Library's exhibitions open a window on the artistic treasures of the great cultures and religions of the world. Its rich collection from countries across Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.  Afternoon to relax.  Early dinner at a private Georgian house.  Stay at The Merrion Hotel   The hotel belongs to Lochlann Quinn, one of the great collectors of twentieth century Irish painting   and Martin Naughton, whose collection rivals Quinn's, though tends to an earlier period.  A selection from their collections is hung in the hotel.  LD

Day 2

A day of Dublin  

The Rubicon The Kerlin

Donnelly Gallery Bacon's Studio Donnelly Gallery

Although the commercial contemporary scene in Dublin is still dominated by a predominance of unadventurous and sentimental sub-abstract expressionism and the annual exhibitions of the Royal Hibernian Academy are even more conservative, there are some beacons in the darkness.   Today you will visit The Kerlin Gallery, The Rubicon, The Museum of Modern Art and The Hugh Lane Gallery and finish the day at Joe and Marie Donnelly's purpose-built gallery overlooking Killiney Bay in County Dublin, where hang highly significant works by such artists as Picasso, De Kooning and Baselitz, as well as an acute portrait of Mrs Donnelly by Francesco Clemente. Pub lunch.  Hotel dinner   BLD

Day 3   

Newgrange Monasterboice Dunsany

A visit to Newgrange the amazing example of prehistoric building and megalithic art,  Beaulieu House at Drogheda, the earliest undefended house in Ireland and still in the family of the builder's descendants, and some of the early Christian sites including the fine high cross at Monasterboice. Lunch with Ashling Law at her country house Rosnaree - Ashling is the daughter of sculptress Imogen Stuart.  Visit Dunsany Castle - Lady Dunsany is a distinguished Brazilian architect, and her husband is a designer, especially of ceramics.   Their home is a treasure house of everything form the 13th century to the 21st century.   Dinner with traditional entertainment.  BLD

Day 4 

Leave Dublin and head to Kilkenny for lunch beside the Butler Art Gallery in Kilkenny Castle , visiting the Count Matouschka's high cross at Moone on the way.   Enjoy the collection at Kilfane where works of art by artists such as David Nash, James Turrell, Bill Woodrow, William Pye are on display. Overnight in  The Capella  Castle Martyr, the 17th century seat of the Earl of Shannon, now a 6* hotel.  BLD

Kilkenny

Day 5  

Crawford Lismore Glucksman

Lunch in Lismore and a visit to the sculpture collection in the gardens put together by the present Duke of Devonshire.  To the Crawford Gallery and the Glucksman Gallery in Cork and a little time to explore this fine city   Return to the hotel by way of Ballymaloe Gardens  BLD

Day 6  

Timoleague  Sky Garden Kinsale

An early departure to see the James Turrell's Sky Garden.  Lunch in a seaside inn, and the afternoon in Kinsale.  Those with an interest in studio ceramics will enjoy Francis Keane's gallery. The Victorian Buddhist decorated Episcopalian church in Timoleague is also an unusual curiosity.  Return to the Castle Martyr for dinner.  BLD

Day 7 

 The Hunt Yeats Glin

To Limerick for lunch and a visit to the Hunt Museum.  John Hunt was Sotheby's medieval art expert in the 1950s and built up one of Ireland 's greatest private collections of art and antiquities, dating from the Neolithic to the 20th Century, including works by Renoir, Picasso and Yeats.  Overnight at Glin Castle

Glin Castle, one of Ireland's most historic properties, has been in the FitzGerald family, hereditary Knights of Glin, for over 700 years. The castle with its superb interiors, decorative plasterwork, and collections of Irish furniture and paintings, stands on the bank of the River Shannon surrounded by formal gardens and parkland and in the middle of 500 acres of wood and dairy farm.  Desmond Fitzgerald, The Knight of Glin was keeper of Furniture at the Victoria & Albert Museum and has since written the leading books on both Irish Paintings and Irish Furniture.  He is the president of the Irish Georgian Society.  BLD

Day 8 

Depart via Shannon

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Your Hotels
The Merrion Castle Martyr Echo Lodge

Some of our favorite art galleries in Ireland

Red on Green, Dublin  The Sebastian Guinness Gallery, Dublin The Bold Gallery,  Galway
  The Kenny Gallery, Galway  
Bandon Gallery, Cork Whitethorn Gallery, Connemara Crawford Art Gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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