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The most significant private loan exhibition ever staged in Australia of paintings by Sidney Nolan will be launched at Sotheby’s Australia’s Sydney premises on Monday 27 March. Coinciding with and celebrating 100 years since the birth of the artist Sidney Nolan: A Centenary Exhibition: Masterpieces from Private Collections features more than 30 paintings that have been exclusively sourced from Australian and international private collections for a strictly limited two week showing. Many of the works have been hidden from public view since they were created, whilst others have never been reproduced. No works of art are for sale and proceeds from the exhibition and associated events will be directed to support the Opera Australia Capital Fund.Guy Cairnduff Appointed Head of Arts & Design
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31 January 2017Sotheby’s Head of Modern & Contemporary African Art Visits Australia
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Ah, what price to own a Dobell classic
16 December 2016Newcastle Herald | Jim Keller
Newcastle art dealer and gallery owner Mark Widdup has expressed regret that a chance for a Hunter public gallery to own an important William Dobell work has been missed.
Hammer comes down on busy year in art auctions
9 December 2016The Australian | Michaela Boland
As the nation’s art auction houses draw the shutters on a busy year, sales figures reveal a dynamic buyers’ market in an industry that’s working harder for the money. With just a few small sales outstanding this year, total artwork transactions at auction were $102 million, about 8 per cent down on last year.
Charles Blackman’s Alice chess painting goes for $1.78m
24 November 2016The Australian | Michaela Boland
Charles Blackman’s Alice in Wonderland oil The Game of Chess set an auction record for the artist at Sotheby’s Australia’s final Important Australian art sale of the year at Sydney’s InterContinental Hotel last night.
Auctioneers puzzled by mystery portrait revealed on the back of a painting by Herbert Badham
22 November 2016The Daily Telegraph | Elizabeth Fortescue
A DOUBLE-SIDED painting with a mystery portrait on the back has intrigued Sotheby’s Australia specialists ahead of their attempts to find the picture a new home at auction in Sydney tonight (Wednesday 23 Nov).
More funds needed for purchase of important painting
22 November 2016The Daily Examiner
THE Grafton Regional Gallery is calling for the community to help fund the purchase of a 19th century painting of the Clarence River. The impressionist work, Susan Island on the Clarence River, Grafton, is up for auction in Sydney tomorrow.
Long lost Streeton painting among auction treasures
21 November 2016Australian Auction Review | Richard Brewster
Arthur Streeton’s And the Sunlight Clasps the Earth 1895 has been recently re-discovered after being hidden from public view in a Tasmanian private collection for almost a century and will be auctioned by Sotheby’s Australia as part of its Important Australian Art auction from 6.30pm Wednesday November 23 at the InterContinental Sydney, 117 Macquarie Street, Sydney.