The Age | Andrew Stephens
When Arthur Streeton visited Lorne with his family in 1921, there was no Great Ocean Road. Visitors went the back way, strenuously, from Winchelsea railway station on a bumpy coach service. If you wanted to visit Lorne – and many knew it as a popular tourist destination – you had to really want to go there.
The Age | Kylie Northover
Australian artist John Kelly loves his home in Cork, Ireland, where he and his family have lived for the past 12 years, but there's one thing he misses: Vietnamese food. We meet at Co Do, (arguably) the best Vietnamese restaurant in Sunshine, where Kelly grew up, and where his parents still live, to talk about Kelly's newest artwork.
The Australian | Michaela Boland
A modest landscape by little-known Heidelberg School-era artist Jane Price stole the show at Sotheby’s Australia’s Important Australian Art auction in Sydney when it sold for five times more than expected.
Financial Review | Jane O'Sullivan
One of Arthur Boyd's most romantic brides is coming out of hiding for Sotheby's Australian art sale in Sydney on November 24. Boyd gave the painting to his brother-in-law, the painter John Perceval, in the late 1950s. It has passed through other private collections since then, but it has never been seen at auction.
Financial Review | Peter Fish
Chinese cloisonné – the art of intricately decorating metal vases and other objects with coloured enamels – is on the comeback trail, as demonstrated by its prominence in the latest major Asian art auctions.
Adelaide Advertiser | Louise Nunn
A RARE 19th century picture of Aborigines and settlers in the north park lands, held by Adelaide’s Muirhead family since it was painted and first exhibited, is up for sale.
The Australian | Michaela Boland
A previously unknown memento of pioneering street artist Keith Haring’s 1984 visit to Melbourne has surfaced at Sotheby’s Australia.
BlouinArtInfo | Nicholas Forrest
Sotheby’s Australia will offer one of the most significant paintings by John Brack still in private ownership during its August 25 Important Australian Art sale at the InterContinental Sydney.
The Australian | Michaela Boland
Sidney Nolan’s daughter has consigned for sale a little-known painting her father gave her at the age of 10.
From her home in the US, Jinx Nolan said that despite protectively guarding the artwork and living with it for more than 60 years, she was happy to part with it now. “I said to him after he gave it to me, ‘don’t you dare paint over it,’ because he did that before when he’d needed a bit of masonite,” she said.
Business Insider Australia | Simon Thomsen
Corporate law firm Minter Ellison is putting its collection of contemporary Australian art and photography up for auction after moving across the road to Governor Macquarie Tower in Sydney last month.
The Advertiser | Louise Nunn
A RARE set of oil paintings by Adelaide-born war artist Stella Bowen will be up for auction in Australia after a UK family decided to sell its collection.
Lawyers Weekly | Staff Reporter
The jewels of Minter Ellison’s contemporary art collection will go under the hammer next week as the firm prepares to move into a new office space.
Law firm set to strike it rich | James Cockington
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Fourteen years after it assembled its collection of contemporary art, Minter Ellison is moving offices — and selling it all.
Business Insider Australia | Simon Thomsen
Sotheby’s Australia has an incredible piece of World War II history coming up for auction later this month: an Australian Rules “premiers trophy plaque” declaring Richmond as the winners of the 1942 premiership – at Changi POW camp.
Australian Financial Review | Jane O'Sullivan
A collection of 56 artworks from law firm Minter Ellison are set to lead Sotheby's Fine Asian, Australian & European Arts & Design sale in Sydney on July 21.