Rover Thomas was born in 1926 however did not begin painting until 1981. He was prompted by a senior kinsman, Paddy Jaminj (c1912-1996), who had had paintings commissioned by Mary Macha, a Perth-based field officer working for Aboriginal Arts and Crafts Pty Ltd, an organisation that was...
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By Asta Cameron
01 Jun 2018
In May 2018, Menzies was delighted to host the exhibition and auction of the M Collection in our Melbourne gallery. M Collection is a Melbourne-based art collective that formed in 2008 with the aim to gather an extraordinary collection of contemporary Australian art over a ten year period. The...
By Cameron Menzies
04 Apr 2018
Cameron Menzies talks about the highlights from Menzies' twenty years in the auction market.
By Anonymous
29 Mar 2018
This lithograph by the British-born Augustus Earle is among the most significant images produced during the early colonial years of Sydney. Earle lived in Sydney from 1825 to 1828, punctuated by a seven-month side journey to New Zealand in 1828. An inveterate traveller, he is noted for being ‘...
By Anonymous
29 Mar 2018
During the three years Augustus Earle spent in Sydney, he produced a series of painted portraits of local identities and is noted for having produced the first ever lithographs in the colony. Based on sketches of the colony and its citizens, Earle produced these prints in 1826 on a lithographic...
By Anonymous
28 Mar 2018
Throughout the nineteenth century Rupert Bunny’s major paintings delighted in depictions of figures by the seashore. His 1890 Tritons (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney) was awarded a mention honorable at the Paris Salon (an Australian first), and in 1892 Alfred Felton’s first gift to...
By Anonymous
28 Mar 2018
Elioth Gruner’s rise to fame was spectacular. Years later, fellow-artist Lloyd Rees (1895-1988) recalled: ‘Sydney in 1917 was still excited about quite a small work called “The Morning Light”, painted two years earlier by Elioth Gruner. It was one of the freshest portrayals of Australian light...
By Anonymous
28 Mar 2018
In the context of Australian art, the precociously gifted Penleigh Boyd might rightly be called the ‘perfect painter’. A member of the remarkable Boyd dynasty of artists – his parents were Arthur Merric (1862-1940) and Emma Minnie (1858-1936), nephews Arthur (1920-99), Guy (1923-88) and David (...
By Anonymous
28 Mar 2018
After many years in England, Tom Roberts and his wife Lillie returned to Melbourne in early 1923 to settle at South Sassafras (nowadays Kallista) in the Dandenong Ranges. Here they built a cottage, ‘Talisman’, in which to live and enjoy the quieter, richer country life. Roberts responded warmly...
By Anonymous
28 Mar 2018
“A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.”
Sir William Dobell
In Bondi Beach Sir William Dobell reveals his adeptness in capturing the enduring...
