Auction debut for important Australian art
8 August 2024Six 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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Six canvases variously depicting wattle, hot Australian skies and intimations of dark colonial history are coming to the auction market, having all hung in the Manhattan apartment of the Sydney-born former president of the World Bank, Sir James Wolfensohn KBE AO.
Wolfensohn, who died in New York in 2020, was the first and only owner of the six pictures – two by Arthur Boyd and four by Fred Williams.
Paintings owned by two men who spent decades doing deals delivered a bumper auction result, with 28 works from the collections of veteran Sydney art dealer Denis Savill and late Melbourne businessman Ron Walker selling for a total of more than $8.2 million including buyer’s premium.
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24 July 2024Twenty artworks from Ron Walker’s deceased estate to go under the hammer, along with seven Arthur Boyd paintings
Ron Walker’s art collection offered for auction
17 July 2024Important Australian Art from the Estate of the Late Ron Walker AC CBE will be offered via a live auction by Smith & Singer in Melbourne on Wednesday July 24, 2024. With only 20 works, the sale is valued between $5.6 – $7.9 million.
Seven paintings by celebrated Australian artist Arthur Boyd have emerged from the private collection of his friend and promoter, Sydney art dealer Denis Savill, and will be offered at auction on July 24 – the date on which the artist would have turned 104.
Ron Walker helped build modern Melbourne but the works that hung in his Toorak mansion, and are now for sale, had a very Sydney flavour.
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