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.
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.
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.
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.
Twenty artworks from Ron Walker’s deceased estate to go under the hammer, along with seven Arthur Boyd paintings