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Australian Auction Review  |   Richard Brewster

Charles Blackman’s The Pink 1953 – acquired directly from the artist’s solo exhibition of that year and held in a private collection ever since – will be auctioned for the first time in Sotheby’s Australia’s forthcoming Important Australian Art sale from 6.30pm Wednesday August 16 at Intercontinental Sydney, 117 Macquarie Street, Sydney.

With a catalogue estimate of $250,000-$350,000 from a total sale projection of at least $9 million, the painting was included recently in the comprehensive Charles Blackman: Schoolgirls exhibition at the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne.

Business Insider  |  Simon Thomsen

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Broadsheet  |  Annelise Answerth

An anonymous couple from central Victoria has donated $250,000 to keep the Castlemaine Art Museum open, after the regional institution announced it would close indefinitely next week due to lack of funding.

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ArtsHub  |  Gina Fairley

An injection of $300,000 in donations has kept CAM’s doors open for a little longer, but staffing remains uncertain for the Victorian gallery.

ABC Radio Australia  | Stephanie Corsetti

With the Castlemaine Art Museum in central Victoria due to close on August 11, hundreds of locals at a meeting are told an eleventh-hour lifeline means the landmark will remain open.

The Age  |  Carolyn Webb

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Shock and anger at the closure of the 104-year-old Castlemaine Art Museum turned to joy on Wednesday night.

White knight private donors have pledged $300,000 to save the key Castlemaine tourist attraction, which was slated for closure after the board said it had insufficient funds to continue operating.

The Australian

Andrew Marks remembers the occasion but not the art. It was 1965, and he was with family in the upmarket Melbourne suburb of Toorak for the 100th birthday party of his great-grandmother, Esther Abrahams.

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Australian Financial Review | Peter Fish

A large Arthur Boyd oil which has twice attracted public admiration and two Brett Whiteley views of Sydney's Lavender Bay, where the artist lived from the 1970s, are among the highlights of a sale next month.