When a painting exceeds its estimate its always a good thing, and when it breaks a record it’s a very good feeling for the auctioneers as well. 

Tim Abdallah on Eugene von Guérard, Arthur Boyd, John Brack, Arthur Streeton and Sculptures.

Boyd had taken the idea of a half-caste groom wooing a half-caste bride, worked it into a series of large-scale paintings, each with their characters caged within the four sides of the picture plane, and constructed a kind of passion play about the tribulations associated with the pursuit of love.’1

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