Smith & Singer In the News

A bold icon returns to brilliance.

John Kelly’s Man Lifting Cow 2016, a landmark sculpture unveiled in central Sunshine in 2016, has been meticulously restored—reviving the artist’s original vision and aligning it with his internationally celebrated cow sculptures in London, Paris, and Melbourne Docklands.

Paying homage to the West’s agricultural legacy and a personal tribute to Kelly’s father—who worked at the Mountain View quarries along the Maribyrnong River—the work continues to anchor a deep cultural narrative in the heart of the community.

Restoration and fabrication by Fundere Fine Art Foundry, ensuring this beloved piece endures for generations.

🎥 Video courtesy of Creative Brimbank

An initiative of Brimbank City Council, Creative Brimbank celebrates the power of art to connect, inspire and transform community.

An Arthur Streeton painting depicting a hallowed location in the history of Australian art, and a canvas that rocketed a 21-year-old Brett Whiteley towards his eventual fame, have both come out of the woodwork for a major art auction to be held in Sydney on April 8.

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Fourteen Australian paintings cracked $1 million this year, dominated by one high-flyer. Here’s what to expect in 2025.

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Chalk one up for the amateurs. In certain artistic circles, Australian landscape painter Elioth Gruner has long been considered a bit passé unless you had a fetish for back-lit cows thawing out on chilly mornings.

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Tide, a work of late Australian artist Bronwyn Oliver, has sold for $1.25 million at auction.

The figure beat the record set a year ago by Joel Elenberg.

The tide rushed in for Bronwyn Oliver on Wednesday night, when a work by the late Sydney artist that for years had greeted patrons at fine diner Quay set a price record for Australian sculpture at auction. 

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The late Sydney artist Bronwyn Oliver has broken the sales record for Australia sculpture, with her monumental 2000 work Tide fetching $1m at auction, or $1.25m with buyer’s premium, in Sydney on Wednesday evening.

A groundbreaking work by Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte, which smashed auction records in New York, has an "equally magnificent" twin in Australia.

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A stunning sculpture which greeted patrons to Sydney’s swish Quay restaurant is being sold by the wealthy Fink family, and is predicted to set a record at auction.

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Six highly significant Australian paintings from the prestigious collection of Sir James D. Wolfensohn make their auction debut at Smith & Singer for the first time since their creation.

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