A Gray day looms at Sotheby’s

Eileen Gray’s dearest wish was to see her work come to Ireland. This week, two of her studies for designs for rugs will go under the hammer in New York, estimates $8,000-$12,000 and $6,000-$8,000 respectively. At the time of their making, 1925 and 1930, one can imagine the reaction of the conservative Dublin art establishment. Not until 1973 was Gray given her first Irish exhibition. A pioneer of 20th-century design, she rejected everything ...