Artist Work Preview
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IRMA STERN, Flowers and Beach Landscape 1936
Irma Stern is one of South Africa’s best known artists and one of a few South African painters whose reputation extends beyond the African continent.
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MARGARET PRESTON, The Green Curtain c1918
Margaret Preston painted The Green Curtain in London towards the end of her second trip to Europe...
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JAMES GLEESON, Evening Ceremonies
James Gleeson carries the well-deserved mantle of being Australia’s first and foremost exponent of Surrealism.
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Tim Abdallah, March 2015 Auction Videos
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ARTHUR BOYD Bride in Pink Landscape
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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JEFFREY SMART Study for Waiting for the Train
Jeffrey Smart’s Study for Waiting for the Train of 1969-70 is one of his most visually balanced and acutely rendered urban scenes.
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JOHN BRACK Backs and Fronts 1969
John Brack’s Backs and Fronts 1969, is one of the two key major paintings from his Ballroom dancing series which he painted largely in 1969 and exhibited for the first time in 1970.
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NORMAN LINDSAY The Pirates' Return c1940
Norman Lindsay’s pirate subjects would have to be some of his most adventurous works, always brimming with swashbuckling figures and their hedonistic pursuits, depicted in a lively palette by the artist.
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ARTHUR STREETON A Sunlit Mountain 1906
Streeton returned to Australia for a holiday in 1907 after many years in England and spent much of his time prolifically painting the landscape of his birthplace.
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ARTHUR STREETON La Salute from Riva Schiavoni 1908
Streeton’s time spent in Venice whilst on his honeymoon in 1908 is possibly some of the happiest of his life and the work he produced from this period is testament to this.
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Tim Abdallah Videos
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42. ROBERT KLIPPEL, Opus 800
Perhaps it was the easing effects of train travel or simply a mesmeric response to a flickering screen of images flashed through a carriage window.
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45. EUGENE VON GUÉRARD, View of Hobart Town, with Mount Wellington in the Background
In Eugene von Guérard’s paintings what is offered is always more than what is depicted. That is the essence of artistic Romanticism.
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47. JEFFREY SMART, Jogger in Cathedral Street
Jeffrey Smart has been described as the ‘master of stillness’ renowned for his evocative and unique imagery depicting modern urban life.
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49. SIDNEY NOLAN, Swamp (Burke and Wills Expedition)
