Fine Arts

Online auction spans from butterflies to Belfast

Morgan O’Driscoll’s Off The Wall includes 437 lots by artists including Damien Hirst and Salvador Dali – and politically significant items as well

Butterfly Spin by Damien Hirst (€3,000-€5,000): part of the Morgan O’Driscoll Off the Wall online auction which ends on May 23

The final call at Morgan O’Driscoll’s Off the Wall online auction of 437 lots closes tomorrow. The extensive selection of artworks, sculpture and books includes works by noted local and international artists from John Kingerlee and Pauline Bewick to Salvador Dali.

The sale includes Butterfly Spin by Damien Hirst (lot 20), the acrylic on card created to mark his Requiem exhibition at Pinchuk Art Centre in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2009. The private museum was opened ...