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Sydney Exhibition Continues - Important Jewels & Watches

2 September 2023

IMPORTANT JEWELS & WATCHES 

The Sydney exhibition for the forthcoming Important Jewels & Watches auction will be open to the public from Saturday 2 September to Monday 4 September from 10 am – 5 pm, and on Tuesday 5 September from 10 am – 2 pm, at 30 Queen Street, Woollahra. 

The September sale features a dazzling array of diamonds, coloured diamonds and precious gemstones along with signed jewels by highly sought-after jewellers, including impressive designs by Cartier, Bulgari, Tiffany & Co., Paspaley, and Seaman Schepps, complemented by watches by Chopard, Cartier, Panerai, and Jaeger-LeCoultre.

A particular highlight of the collection is this magnificent 18ct pink gold and diamond 'Love' bracelet, Cartier, 2021 (estimate $25,000–35,000, pictured above).    

VIEWINGS

SYDNEY
Saturday 2 September – Monday 4 September  
10 am – 5 pm  
Tuesday 5 September 10 am – 2 pm  
30 Queen Street, Woollahra, NSW  
+61 (0)2 9302 2402

 

AUCTION IN SYDNEY
5 SEPTEMBER 2023 l 6.30 PM
SMITH & SINGER 
30 QUEEN STREET, WOOLLAHRA

 

EXPLORE FLIPBOOK CATALOGUE   EXPLORE SALE ONLINE

 

For more information, please contact: 

MELBOURNE

Rebecca Sheahan 
Specialist, Jewels & Watches  
+61 (0)3 9508 9900
[email protected]   

SYDNEY

Emma Finn  
Specialist, Jewels & Watches    
+61 (0)2 9302 2402  
[email protected]

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Lot 48

18ct pink gold and diamond 'Love' bracelet, Cartier, 2021

The oval hinged bracelet is pavé-set with brilliant-cut diamonds together weighing approximately 2.00 carats and decorated at intervals with screwhead motifs, size 18, inner dimensions approximately 58 x 49mm, signed Cartier, numbered MMS917.
Accompanied by a Cartier certificate of authenticity dated 15 August 2021, Cartier insurance valuation dated 19 June 2023, Cartier box and outer box.
Estimate $25,000–35,000  

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Sydney Exhibition Opens - Important Jewels and Watches

31 August 2023

IMPORTANT JEWELS & WATCHES 

The Sydney exhibition for the forthcoming Important Jewels & Watches auction will be open to the public from Friday 1 September to Monday 4 September from 10 am – 5 pm, and on Tuesday 5 September from 10 am – 2 pm, at 30 Queen Street, Woollahra

The September sale features a dazzling array of diamonds, coloured diamonds and precious gemstones along with signed jewels by highly sought-after jewellers, including impressive designs by Cartier, Bulgari, Tiffany & Co., Paspaley, and Seaman Schepps, complemented by watches by Chopard, Cartier, Panerai, and Jaeger-LeCoultre.

A particular highlight of the collection is this stunning  Diamond Ring (estimate $90,000–120,000, pictured above).    

VIEWINGS

SYDNEY
Friday 1 September – Monday 4 September  
10 am – 5 pm  
Tuesday 5 September 10 am – 2 pm  
30 Queen Street, Woollahra, NSW  
+61 (0)2 9302 2402

 

AUCTION IN SYDNEY
5 SEPTEMBER 2023 l 6.30 PM
SMITH & SINGER 
30 QUEEN STREET, WOOLLAHRA

 

EXPLORE FLIPBOOK CATALOGUE   EXPLORE SALE ONLINE

 

For more information, please contact: 

MELBOURNE

Rebecca Sheahan 
Specialist, Jewels & Watches  
+61 (0)3 9508 9900
[email protected]

SYDNEY

Emma Finn  
Specialist, Jewels & Watches    
+61 (0)2 9302 2402  
[email protected]

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Lot 25

Diamond Ring

Claw-set with a brilliant-cut diamond weighing 3.78 carats, mounted in platinum, size J½.
Accompanied by a facsimile GIA report numbered 5192001077, dated 15 January 2018, stating that the 3.78ct diamond is E colour, VS2 clarity, laser inscribed. 
Estimate $90,000–120,000  

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SIDNEY NOLAN: Property Formerly from the Collection of Lord McAlpine - Catalogue Announcement

28 August 2023

 SIDNEY NOLAN Property formerly from the collection of  Lord McAlpine

The digital catalogue for the upcoming auction Sidney Nolan: Property formerly from the Collection of Lord McAlpine is now available to view online

This remarkable collection of 42 paintings by Australia’s most internationally celebrated and collected artist, spans Nolan’s highly productive and inventive career from 1957 to 1987.  Significant examples from Sidney Nolan’s Eliza Fraser, Ned Kelly, African, Bathers, Oedipus, Gallipoli, and Silk Road series are represented by large-scale compositions in oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas and composition board that reveal the artist as the truly extraordinary innovator and trailblazer for which he is justly renowned.

This fascinating auction will be open to the public Wednesday 6 September – Sunday 10 September 2023, 10 am – 5 pm, at 14-16 Collins Street, Melbourne. Following Melbourne the Sydney exhibition will take place from Thursday 14 September – Tuesday 19 September, 10 am – 5 pm, at 30 Queen Street, Woollahra.

The auction will be held at Smith & Singer, 30 Queen Street, Woollahra at 6.30 pm on 19 September 2023.

   

EXPLORE FLIPBOOK CATALOGUE EXPLORE EXHIBITION ONLINE

  

For more information please contact:

Geoffrey Smith
Chairman
+61 (0)418 889 656 
[email protected]


Emily Walker 
Administrator, Art
+61 (0)3 9508 9900
[email protected]

Gary Singer 
Chief Executive Officer & Director
+61 (0)418 337 788 
[email protected]


David Mackay 
Gallery Manager  
+61 (0)2 9302 2402
[email protected] 

    
 
Pictured above

SIDNEY NOLAN 1917-1992
Crocodile 1963
synthetic polymer paint on composition board
152.5 x 122 cm
Estimate $15,000–25,000
© The Sidney Nolan Trust. All rights reserved, DACS/Copyright Agency, 2023

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Auction Results - Important Australian Art

25 August 2023

IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN ART

Smith & Singer’s tightly curated August 2023 auction of Important Australian Art achieved exceptional results for traditional, modern and contemporary Australian art with a total of $14,796,250.

Determined bidding from clients in the saleroom, on telephones, and online resulted in an outstanding sold rate for a mixed vendor sale of 151.4% by value and 85% by volume, showing the depth of demand across all categories.  The figure augments the extensive private sales and international consignments Smith & Singer have transacted to date in 2023.

Results were led by stellar performances by artists including Bessie Davidson, Rosalie Gascoigne, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Streeton, and Brett Whiteley, with new world auction records established for Joel Elenberg, Isobel Rae and Fred Williams. The auction also witnessed the highest price ever achieved for an Australian sculpture at auction.

 

  VIEW RESULTS  
JOEL ELENBERG 1948-1980 Mask 1 (1978)

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Lot 23

FRED WILLIAMS 1927-1982 
Masons Falls (1981)  
oil on canvas  
182.2 x 151.8 cm 
Estimate $2,000,000–3,000,000 
Sold for $3,250,000 
AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST 
© Estate of Fred Williams/Copyright Agency, 2023

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Lot 20

JOEL ELENBERG 1948-1980 
Mask 1 (1978) 
black Belgium marble 
55 cm high (including base)  
Estimate $350,000–450,000
Sold for $1,156,250
AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
AUCTION RECORD FOR AN AUSTRALIAN SCULPTURE
  
© The Estate of Joel Elenberg

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Melbourne Exhibition Opens - Important Jewels & Watches

24 August 2023

IMPORTANT JEWELS & WATCHES 

The Melbourne exhibition for the forthcoming Important Jewels & Watches auction will be open to the public from Friday 25 August to Sunday 27 August, from 10 am – 5 pm, at 14-16 Collins Street, Melbourne.

The September sale features a dazzling array of diamonds, coloured diamonds and precious gemstones along with signed jewels by highly sought-after jewellers, including impressive designs by Cartier, Bulgari, Tiffany & Co., Paspaley, and Seaman Schepps, complemented by watches by Chopard, Cartier, Panerai, and Jaeger-LeCoultre.

A particular highlight of the collection is this magnificent Chopard Imperiale ref S38/3467-20, an 18ct white gold and diamond-set wristwatch with bracelet (estimate $55,000–65,000, pictured above).  

VIEWINGS

MELBOURNE

Friday 25 August – Sunday 27 August 
10 am – 5 pm 
14-16 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 
+61 (0)3 9508 9900

 

SYDNEY

Friday 1 September – Monday 4 September 
10 am – 5 pm 
Tuesday 5 September 10 am – 2 pm 
30 Queen Street, Woollahra, NSW 
+61 (0)2 9302 2402

AUCTION IN SYDNEY
5 SEPTEMBER 2023 l 6.30 PM
SMITH & SINGER 
30 QUEEN STREET, WOOLLAHRA

 

EXPLORE FLIPBOOK CATALOGUE   EXPLORE SALE ONLINE

 

For more information, please contact: 

MELBOURNE

Rebecca Sheahan 
Specialist, Jewels & Watches  
+61 (0)3 9508 9900
[email protected]

SYDNEY

Emma Finn  
Specialist, Jewels & Watches    
+61 (0)2 9302 2402  
[email protected]

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Lot 39

Chopard Imperiale ref S38/3467-20

An 18ct white gold and diamond-set wristwatch with bracelet
Estimate $55,000–65,000  

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Auction Tonight - Important Australian Art

23 August 2023

IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN ART

The exhibition will be on view in Sydney today, Wednesday 23 August, 10 am to 5 pm, at 30 Queen Street, Woollahra.

Among the highlights of the sale is Fred Williams’s magnificent Masons Falls (1981) (lot 23, estimate $2,000,000–3,000,000, pictured above).

Fred Williams’s ‘Waterfall’ compositions of 1979-1981 have long been acknowledged as one of the artist’s most accomplished, sustained and complex series; a body of work that finds its origins deeply embedded within the history and development of Australian art as well as fundamentally inspired by the astonishing qualities found within the Australian landscape itself.

We are particularly honoured to present the magisterial Masons Falls for public sale for the first time – a composition of exceptional quality, beauty and significance – created at the height of Williams’s powers as an artist and one of great influencers of his own and subsequent generations.

The auction will be held at the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia, 111 Queen Street, Woollahra at 6.30 pm tonight, 23 August 2023.

  EXPLORE SALE  

For more information, please contact:

Geoffrey Smith
Chairman
+61 (0)418 889 656 
[email protected]


Emily Walker 
Administrator, Art
+61 (0)3 9508 9900
[email protected]

Gary Singer 
Chief Executive Officer & Director
+61 (0)418 337 788 
[email protected]


David Mackay 
Gallery Manager, Sydney   
+61 (0)2 9302 2402
[email protected] 

   
Pictured above 

FRED WILLIAMS 1927-1982
Masons Falls (1981) 
oil on canvas 
182.2 x 151.8 cm
Estimate $2,000,000–3,000,000
© Estate of Fred Williams/Copyright Agency, 2023

VIEW LOT

 

Sydney Exhibition Continues - Important Australian Art

21 August 2023

IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN ART

The exhibition will be on view in Sydney from Monday 21 August – Wednesday 23 August, 10 am to 5 pm, at 30 Queen Street, Woollahra.

Among the highlights of the sale is Rosalie Gascoigne’s spectacular Marmalade 1989-1990 (lot 21, estimate $600,000–800,000, pictured above).

Rosalie Gascoigne’s cunning formalist assemblages are made from many and varied objects – kewpie dolls, shells, enamelled metal utensils, thistle stalks, feathers, corrugated iron, linoleum, the worn timbers of apiary boxes, drink crates, cable reels and plywood form boards – but perhaps the most original and certainly the most popular of all her materials are the retro-reflective road signs.  Possibly inspired by the work of James Lee Byars and Jannis Kounellis, Gascoigne’s yellow and orange chequerboards first appear from the mid-1980s, concurrently with her Schweppes bottle-crate structures.  In these two complimentary bodies of work, the sawn squares and rectangles and strips create both subtle tonal harmonies across the picture plane and minimal, stuttering dada poems of words and letters.

We are honoured to present Rosalie Gascoigne’s magnificent Marmalade, one of the artist’s finest compositions ever offered for auction, from the collection of Cate Blanchett AC and Andrew Upton.

The auction will be held at the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia, 111 Queen Street, Woollahra at 6.30 pm on 23 August 2023.

  EXPLORE SALE  

For more information, please contact:

Geoffrey Smith
Chairman
+61 (0)418 889 656 
[email protected]


Emily Walker 
Administrator, Art
+61 (0)3 9508 9900
[email protected]

Gary Singer 
Chief Executive Officer & Director
+61 (0)418 337 788 
[email protected]


David Mackay 
Gallery Manager, Sydney   
+61 (0)2 9302 2402
[email protected] 

   
Pictured above 

ROSALIE GASCOIGNE 1917-1999
Marmalade 1989-1990
sawn plywood retro-reflective road signs on plywood
152.5 x 142.5 cm
Estimate $600,000–800,000  
© Rosalie Gascoigne/Copyright Agency, 2023

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Sydney Exhibition Continues - Important Australian Art

18 August 2023

IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN ART

The exhibition will be on view in Sydney from Friday 18 August – Wednesday 23 August, 10 am to 5 pm, at 30 Queen Street, Woollahra.

Among the highlights of the sale is Fred Williams’s magnificent Masons Falls (1981) (lot 23, estimate $2,000,000–3,000,000, pictured above).

Fred Williams’s ‘Waterfall’ compositions of 1979-1981 have long been acknowledged as one of the artist’s most accomplished, sustained and complex series; a body of work that finds its origins deeply embedded within the history and development of Australian art as well as fundamentally inspired by the astonishing qualities found within the Australian landscape itself.

We are particularly honoured to present the magisterial Masons Falls for public sale for the first time – a composition of exceptional quality, beauty and significance – created at the height of Williams’s powers as an artist and one of great influencers of his own and subsequent generations.

The auction will be held at the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia, 111 Queen Street, Woollahra at 6.30 pm on 23 August 2023.

  EXPLORE SALE  

For more information, please contact:

Geoffrey Smith
Chairman
+61 (0)418 889 656 
[email protected]


Emily Walker 
Administrator, Art
+61 (0)3 9508 9900
[email protected]

Gary Singer 
Chief Executive Officer & Director
+61 (0)418 337 788 
[email protected]


David Mackay 
Gallery Manager, Sydney   
+61 (0)2 9302 2402
[email protected] 

   
Pictured above 

FRED WILLIAMS 1927-1982
Masons Falls (1981) 
oil on canvas 
182.2 x 151.8 cm
Estimate $2,000,000–3,000,000
© Estate of Fred Williams/Copyright Agency, 2023

VIEW LOT

 

Sydney Exhibition Opens - Important Australian Art

16 August 2023

IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN ART

The exhibition will be on view in Sydney from Thursday 17 August – Wednesday 23 August, 10 am to 5 pm, at 30 Queen Street, Woollahra.

Among the highlights of the sale is Sidney Nolan’s magnificent Ned Kelly: Wounded Bushranger 1955 (lot 22, estimate $750,000–950,000, pictured above).

Included in Nolan’s highly significant solo exhibition at The Redfern Gallery, London, in May 1955, Wounded Bushranger is a dramatic composition that evokes empathy and pathos.  Here the armed and mounted outlaw slumps in his saddle, his eye visible through the slit in his helmet, directed to the ground out of physical necessity, rather than strategic bushmanship.  Ned Kelly’s horse is shown pushing forward, propelling his passenger towards the river, where he may escape the advances of his avenging pursuers.

Compositions from Nolan’s ‘second’ Ned Kelly series remain tightly held, with the majority residing in prestigious public and private collections.  We are honoured to be entrusted with the sale of Wounded Bushranger – a rare and inventive depiction from our most internationally renowned Australian artist – that was last offered for public auction almost a quarter of a century ago.

The auction will be held at the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia, 111 Queen Street, Woollahra at 6.30 pm on 23 August 2023.

  EXPLORE SALE  

For more information, please contact:

Geoffrey Smith
Chairman
+61 (0)418 889 656 
[email protected]


Emily Walker 
Administrator, Art
+61 (0)3 9508 9900
[email protected]

Gary Singer 
Chief Executive Officer & Director
+61 (0)418 337 788 
[email protected]


David Mackay 
Gallery Manager, Sydney   
+61 (0)2 9302 2402
[email protected] 

   
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SIDNEY NOLAN 1917-1992
Ned Kelly: Wounded Bushranger 1955 
oil and enamel paint on composition board
71 x 91.5 cm 
Estimate $750,000–950,000 
© The Sidney Nolan Trust. All Rights Reserved. DACS/Copyright Agency, 2023

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