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• Tim Abdallah: Menzies September Auction Videos

  Posted September 2, 2014 in Artist Work Preview by Tim Abdallah, Head of Art, Southern Region

  

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

  
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• Tim Abdallah; Menzies July 2014 Videos

  Posted July 2, 2014 in Artist Work Preview by Tim Abdallah, Head of Art, Southern Region

  

  
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• BRETT WHITELEY, Gauguin 1968

  Posted July 1, 2014 in Artist Work Preview by Ken Wach

  

  This painting has never been seen in Australia. Brett Whiteley created his Gauguin at the Chelsea Hotel in New York in 1968 and it has remained there until this time. 

  
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• GRACE COSSINGTON SMITH, Christmas Tree, 1953

  Posted July 1, 2014 in Artist Work Preview by Caroline Jones BA, MA (Art Admin.)

  

  I feel that with interiors I need not be in a hurry over it because it will be there for me the next day.

  
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• JEFFREY SMART, Waiting Containers, Syracuse Harbour, 1977

  Posted July 1, 2014 in Artist Work Preview by Rodney James

  

  Jeffrey Smart once made the remark that he enjoyed spending time amidst the ambience of commercial ports and docks. 

  
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• Tim Abdallah; Menzies 2014 Videos

  Posted March 25, 2014 in Artist Work Preview by Tim Abdallah, Head of Art

  

  
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• BRETT WHITELEY, Arkie Under the Shower

  Posted March 24, 2014 in Artist Work Preview by Ken Wach

  

  Brett Whiteley was one of Sydney’s most accomplished sons. Whiteley was born in 1939 and his artistic trajectory was astonishing.

  
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• BESSIE DAVIDSON, Still Life - Interior with Jug and Vase of Flowers

  Posted February 25, 2014 in Artist Work Preview by Rodney James, B.A. (Hons.), M.A

  

  …Bessie Davidson [gives] in her still lifes, her interiors, indeed in her landscapes the full expression of her rich palette and of that full-blooded craftsmanship which generously encompasses l’essential in a harmonious whole.

  
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• SIDNEY NOLAN, Untitled (Mrs Reardon & Child)

  Posted February 20, 2014 in Artist Work Preview by Marina Brennan, BA (Hons)

  

  By the time Sidney Nolan died in London in 1992 the art world of Australia and abroad had long been splintered over the extent of his genius. 

  
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• TIM STORRIER, Reflected Fireline

  Posted February 20, 2014 in Artist Work Preview by Alison Burns BA (Hons); MA

  

  
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• WILLIAM ROBINSON, Day and Night Landscape

  Posted February 20, 2014 in Artist Work Preview by TIM ABDALLAH, HEAD OF ART

  

  Observing the progress of William Robinson’s art is like operating the zoom function on a camera; but in reverse. 

  
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• Menzies October 31 Auction Wrap Up

  Posted November 15, 2013 in Artist Work Preview by Tim Abdallah, Head of Art

  

  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. 

  
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• SALI HERMAN Street Scene, Sydney

  Posted October 22, 2013 in Artist Work Preview by TIM ABDALLAH, HEAD OF ART

  

  It’s hard to put your finger on Sali Herman’s place in the current Australian art market.

  
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• BRETT WHITELEY, Astral Weeks

  Posted October 21, 2013 in Artist Work Preview by Tim Abdallah, Head of Art

  

  Whiteley’s My Armchair, a major painting from 1976, bears the inscription in the upper right corner: Astral Weeks, a reference to the title of a famous album produced by the Irish singer Van Morrison in 1968. 

  
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• ARTHUR STREETON, Hill and Cloud, Wandiligong 1928

  Posted October 16, 2013 in Artist Work Preview by Caroline Jones MA (Art Admin.)

  

  Arthur Streeton is undoubtedly one of Australia’s most important landscape painters and a founding member of the ‘Heidelberg School’ group of painters.

  
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