Contamporary Australian and South African Art Auction
Published November 16th, 2008
Christie’s has announced the second sale of Modern and Contemporary Australian and South African Art on Tuesday, 16 December 2008; the sale brings the best artworks from Australia and South Africa to the London marketplace.
Many of the works offered have not been seen in their homelands for a generation or more, with little known works by Frederick McCubbin, Irma Stern and others coming to auction for the first time. Artists range from the Australian impressionists such as McCubbin and Streeton, through to modernists such as Grace Cossington Smith and Roy de Maistre, and the great post-war generation of Nolan, Boyd and Olsen, many of whom made their reputation in the vibrant London art scene in the late 1950s and 1960s. The sale culminates in a selection of contemporary works by such leading artists as Paddy Bedford, Howard Arkley and Tim Maguire in Australia and Dylan Lewis in South Africa.
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