LEONARD, issue 44, October 2015

ISSUE 44 OCTOBER 2015

The

GEOFFREY HATTY Collection

MELBOURNE

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About Us Leonard Joel can truly claim to have the broadest range of category specialists of any auction house in Australia.

From identification and valuation of single items through to the dispersal of major private and corporate collections.

Leonard Joel brings an unrivaled specialist expertise to every buying or selling transaction.

May we introduce ourselves?

Meet our team

Our Offices

Melbourne

John Albrecht

John D’Agata

Managing Director

National Head of Jewellery

333 Malvern Rd, Sth Yarra, VIC 3141

& Head of Collections

& Sydney Office

03 9826 4333

03 8825 5619

03 8825 5605 | 0408 355 339

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john.dagata@leonardjoel.com.au

Sophie Ullin

Guy Cairnduff

Anna Grassham

Head of Art

Head of Classic Furniture & Objects

Specialist, Modern Design

03 8825 5609 | 0413 912 307

& Head of the Specialist Collector

sophie.ullin@leonardjoel.com.au

03 8825 5611 | 0407 828 137

Robert Haigh

Sydney

Manager, Senior

39 Queen St, Woollahra, NSW 2025

03 8825 5637 | 0478 114 611

Jewellery Specialist

02 9362 9045

anna.grassham@leonardjoel.com.au

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robert.haigh@leonardjoel.com.au ISSUE 44 OCTOBER 2015

The

GEOFFREY HATTY Collection

MELBOURNE

Maggie Skelton

Dominic Kavanagh

Maxine Winning

Manager, Interiors Art

Manager, Interiors Furniture

Manager, Object, Books & Collectables

03 8825 5630

03 8825 5632

03 8825 5604

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dom.kavanagh@leonardjoel.com.au

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Issue 44 Cover The Geoffrey Hatty Collection of Applied Arts A KOMMODE BY PROF BRUNO PAUL FOR THE VEREINIGTE WERKSTATTEN CIRCA 1920s, THREE GERMAN SPIRIT KETTLES (VARIOUS MAKERS) CIRCA 1920s, A CERUSED OAK GERMAN MODERNIST SIDE TABLE CIRCA 1920s

Marketing Team Katarina Ljahovic Manager, Marketing & Communications 03 8825 5620 katarina.ljahovic@leonardjoel.com.au

Robert Williams

Edwina Foley

Specialist Jewels & Objets D’Art

Jewellery Specialist

& Single Owner Collections

02 9362 9045

02 9362 9045 | 0403 142 106

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robert.williams@leonardjoel.com.au

Maria Rossi Designer / Finished Artist

Rick Merrie Senior Photographer

OUR SYDNEY TEAM

Adam Obradovic Photographer

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Forthcoming Auctions

“We dropped the hammer on Australia’s first million dollar painting.”

Interiors & Jewellery Auction Every Thursday Furniture & Interiors – 10am Jewellery & Wristwatches – 10.30am Art – 11.30am Objects & Collectables – 12pm MELBOURNE

Scandinavian & Mid 20th Century Design Thursday 8th October 2015 – 10am MELBOURNE

Monthly Toy Auction Thursday 8th October 2015 – 12pm MELBOURNE

Specialist Rug Auction Thursday 8th October 2015 – 2pm MELBOURNE

The John Gould Birds of Australia Auction Sunday 25th October 2015 – 11am MELBOURNE

Asian Art, Classic Furniture & Objects Auction Sunday 25th October 2015 – 12pm MELBOURNE

Monthly Toys Auction Thursday 5th November 2015 – 12pm MELBOURNE

The Geoffrey Hatty Collection of Applied Arts Sunday 8th November 2015 – 2pm MELBOURNE – On site 249 Johnson St, Abbotsford VIC

Fine Antiques & Objects Thursday 12th November 2015 – 12pm MELBOURNE

Specialist Prints Auction Thursday 12th November 2015 – 11.30am MELBOURNE

Jewels & Objets D’Art Auction Sunday 15th November 2015 – 12pm SYDNEY

The Estate of Colin Lanceley Monday 16th November 2015 – 6.30pm SYDNEY – On site

Jewels Auction Monday 30th November 2015 – 6pm MELBOURNE

Fine Art Auction Tuesday 1st December 2015 – 6.30pm

(detail) RUPERT BUNNY (1864-1947)

MELBOURNE

Une Nuit De Canicule SOLD FOR $1,250,000

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Upcoming Modern Design Auction December 2015

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THE NONCHALANT BUYER

JOHN ALBRECHT, MANAGING DIRECTOR LEONARD JOEL

While my musings here are not on the With celebrations out of the way I wanted fingers” and that very few items demand buyer spends money after an auction with number three I can’t ignore the fact that to make a brief comment on the nature of their serious attention during the several as much enthusiasm and interest as those Australia’s only serious monthly auction time in relation to auctions. It very much hours that an auction typically takes place seated loyally during the live auction. No publication is now moving in to its fourth appears that the old saying “it’s not over within. This buyer might attend the auction, longer does the auctioneer dictate with the year! LEONARD is as collaborative and ‘til it’s over” applies to the contemporary might not, might bid but might not and is same rigidity and pomposity about how and imaginative as our team at Leonard Joel so auction. Once upon a time an auction started not remotely concerned with the words when a buyer should “buy”! The nonchalant it is now no surprise to me that it has grown in a room or place and then finished in that “passed in”, “unsold on the night” or “didn’t buyer in a very disrupted buying and selling organically and successfully in to something room or place. In 2015 this notion of the meet reserve”. The nonchalant buyer moves world is growing in prominence every month much more than a mere newsletter with a simple, sequential, uninterrupted, conclusive between iPad, shop, shopping centre, online and every year few results. And it is fitting that we have now auction is being seriously challenged by what shops and countries and buys when it suits completely renewed its look and feel so thank I call the “nonchalant buyer”. This new type him or her. With little regard for the urgency you Maria Rossi and Katarina Ljahovic for of buyer knows he or she has the world “as an auction creates, the time it occurs within reinventing LEONARD for its third birthday. a shopping centre at the tips of their digital or whether it was sold on the night or not, this

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A PAIR OF JACOB RUDOWSKI TUB CHAIRS. SOLD $1,952 IBP

Jewellery & Wristwatches

AUCTION EVERY THURSDAY AT 10AM

AUCTION EVERY THURSDAY AT 10.30AM

AN 18CT GOLD PENDANT AND CHAIN WITH A MALACHITE STAND. SOLD $1,586 IBP

Furniture

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The Art Salon

Objects & Collectables

AUCTION EVERY THURSDAY AT 11.30AM

AUCTION EVERY THURSDAY AT 12PM

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A COLLECTION OF GREEN GLASS INCL 19TH CENTURY. SOLD FOR $61 IBP

GILLIAN LODGE, PELICANS, OIL ON CANVAS, 107 X 122 CM. SOLD $366 IBP

INTERIORS & Jewellery

THEMATIC AUCTIONS View Wednesday, buy Thursday and collect forever

Auction

Auction

Now Consigning

Scandinavian and Mid 20th Century Design

Specialist Rugs

Specialist Prints Auction

Thursday 8th October - 12pm

Thursday 12th November - 11.30am

A SUPERFINE ISFAHAN RUG

CHRIS CANNING (born 1947) Hakea and Other Seed Pods 2006, 89 x 63cm

Thursday 8th October - 10am

CATALOGUE ONLINE WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER

SOLD FOR $3,660 IBP

SOLD FOR $2,074 IBP

Enquiries

Enquiries

Enquiries

Dominic Kavanagh, Interiors Manager

Dominic Kavanagh, Interiors Manager

Olivia Fuller, Art Specialist

03 8825 5632 | dom.kavanagh@leonardjoel.com.au

03 8825 5632 | dom.kavanagh@leonardjoel.com.au

03 8825 5624 | olivia.fuller@leonardjoel.com.au

Auction

Auction

Now Consigning

Monthly Toys

John Gould Birds of Australia

Luxury

Thursday 8th October - 12pm

Sunday 25th October - 11am

Thursday 19th November - 12pm

DINKY NO. 435 BEDFORD TK TIPPER IN ORIGINAL BOX WITH INTERNAL PACKING INTACT (E BOX E)

JOHN GOULD (1804-1881) Calyptorhynchus Macrorhynchus (Great-Billed Black Cockatoo) hand-coloured lithograph, 51 x 35cm $8,000 - 12,000

A GRIPOIX PENDANT BY CHANEL

Enquiries

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SOLD FOR $146 IBP

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SOLD FOR $854 IBP

Bethany McGougan, Collectables Specialist

Olivia Fuller, Art Specialist

Amanda Saini, Luxury Assistant

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Australian record for emerald & diamond jewellery suite & Tiffany diamond

AN IMPORTANT EMERALD AND DIAMOND JEWELLERY SUITE

SOLD $366,000 IBP

In 1981 Leonard Joel presented the most important jewellery auction in Australian history, the estate collection of the Hollywood actress Claire McKinnon. Thirty four years later in our South Yarra rooms on Monday night it had similar Hollywood feel when lot 180 came up for auction, an important Emerald and Diamond jewellery suite. The necklace alone was dripping with more than 50 carats of emeralds and 40 carats of diamonds! The suite finally sold to a mysterious phone-bidder for $366,000 (IBP), the highest price ever at Australian auction for a suite of jewellery! Typically, high grade diamond jewellery dominated proceedings but adventurous collecting also decorated the results. No more so than with the sale of lot 223, the exquisitely crafted and detailed Penguin Playground ring by the Australasian designer Ewen Ryley which realised $17,080 (IBP). History was also on show when a sterling silver presentation pocket watch

by Longines, lot 123, sold for an impressive $6710 (IBP). The timepiece was awarded to Clarence Peterson de la Motte for his role in the rescue of the survivors of Shackleton’s ill-fated Trans Arctic expedition. But diamonds again stole the show with the sale of an important heart-shaped diamond ring by Tiffany that realised $229,360 (IBP), the most expensive heart shaped diamond ever to sell at an Australian auction. The Jewels auction realised $1,537, 200 (IBP) and firmly positioned Leonard Joel as the preeminent auctioneer in Australia for jewellery at auction.

John D’Agata, National Head of Jewellery, commented:

“I think jewellery collectors are realising that we really are the complete market place for jewellery great and small and now with our well established Sydney office we can truly offer both cities maximum exposure, whether you are buying or selling jewellery.”

A CONTEMPORARY HANDCRAFTED PENGUIN PLAYGROUND RING

SOLD $17,080 IBP

AN IMPORTANT SOLITAIRE DIAMOND RING BY TIFFANY & CO.

SOLD $229,360 IBP

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Enquiries John D’Agata, National Head of Jewellery & Sydney Office 03 8825 5605 | 0408 355 339 john.dagata@leonardjoel.com.au

Now Consigning

JEWELS & TIMEPIECES 30 NOVEMBER 2015

A ROLEX OYSTER PERPETUAL DAY DATE II PLATINUM AND DIAMOND WRISTWATCH

SOLD $46,360 IBP

Enquiries Robert Haigh Manager, Senior Jewellery Specialist 03 8825 5618 | 0439 493 038 robert.haigh@leonardjoel.com.au

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Auction

ASIAN ART, CLASSIC FURNITURE & OBJECTS 25 OCTOBER 2015 AT 12PM

235 AN IMPORTANT & UNIQUE CATER RAND’S PATENT MILITARY AND NAVAL TELESCOPE, CIRCA 1799 $10,000 - 15,000

Featuring the Frank Freedman Collection of Mechanical Music and Automata Melbourne Auction Sunday 25 October 2015 at 12pm 333 Malvern Road South Yarra 3141

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Melbourne Viewing Wednesday 21 October 9am-8pm Thursday 22 October 10am-5pm Friday 22 October 10am-5pm Saturday 22 October 10am-5pm

Enquiries: Guy Cairnduff Head of Classic Furniture & Objects 03 8825 5611 / 0407 828 137 guy.cairnduff@leonardjoel.com.au

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Chiara Curcio Classic Furniture & Objects Specialist 03 8825 5635 / 0412 653 315 chiara.curcio@leonardjoel.com.au

Spring Offerings As blossom fills the trees at the front of the Leonard Joel Salerooms, it is appropriate that we prepare for our inaugural Asian Art, Classic Furniture & Objects auction. This October, we have great pleasure in offering many wonderful and important Asian items including numerous works full of symbolism, welcoming the new season. Opening buds, flowers, fruit and insects painted in vibrant enamels dance across surfaces, such as with the lovely pair of Fluted Famille Rose Bowls from the Daoguang Period (1821-1850) and the Large Pair of Chinese Export ‘Canton Famille Rose’ Vases, circa 1870; where butterflies, pomegranate, and peaches give bountiful offering to spring. Wide sprays of peony, the ‘king’ of flowers, are carefully detailed on the fine 19th Century Cloisonné Moonflask; and a good and well-preserved Erotic album of seven leaves illustrating amorous encounters in outdoor garden settings, gives a suggestive wink to the season as well.

In terms of very auspicious offerings, there is a very rare, beautiful and intricate piece, namely, the Silver and Parcel-Gilt Floriate Box and Cover from the Tang Dynasty (618-906) [illustrated]. It has been lavishly decorated with an engraved and chased gilt design depicting the double-phoenix to the centre of the cover amongst, meandering lotus tendrils, with cranes, ducks, floral sprays and dappled deer representing superior achievement, impending fortune, happiness, peace, harmony and longevity. This is a very decorative, unusual and cosmopolitan piece and universal in its appeal.

Tang silver appropriated much of its shape and design from Sassanian and Iranian examples that were brought in to China through the Silk route.

The original owner of this piece would have most likely been an important high-ranking member of the court. It is unclear for what purpose this box may have been used, however there are several references to Buddhism, so perhaps it may have been offered in grateful tribute.

By Sally A. Robin

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Melbourne Auction

THE GEOFFREY HATTY COLLECTION OF APPLIED ARTS 8 NOVEMBER 2015 AT 2PM

AN ITALIAN CARLO FORCOLINI SIGNORINA CHAIR FOR ALIAS CIRCA 1980S

Melbourne Auction Sunday 8 November 2015 at 2pm

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Auction & Viewing On site 249 Johnson Street Abbotsford, 3067 VIC

Viewing Times Wednesday 4 November 9am-8pm Thursday 5 November 10am-5pm Friday 6 November 10am-5pm Saturday 7 November 10am-5pm

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Enquiries: Anna Grassham

Modern Design Specialist 03 8825 5637 / 0478 114 611 anna.grassham@leonardjoel.com.au

An important Modern Design Single-Owner Collection There are only a handful of people you meet in your life that resonate a certain kind of mystique and creativity that you know will leave an impression on what you do, and how you will see things.

Geoffrey Hatty is a man that leaves an impression.

I first met Geoffrey several years ago when I was managing the Vintage & Interiors department at Leonard Joel. He never made a grand entrance, just slipped between the furniture and fittings as if he was never really there. But when he was there everybody knew, his reputation is both remarkable and intriguing. He has made life long friends not just through his charm, but through a knowledge and passion in what he does best.

Spanning a career of over 30 years, it’s hard not to recognise the importance Geoffrey Hatty has had on 20th Century Design. His Malvern Road store, with its amazing window, literally stops people in their tracks. A haven of remarkable finds like no other in Australia, this elegance and simplicity has always been a delight amongst the mundane high street stores of today.

Geoffrey strives to bring together a diverse range of objects that are in his view the best of the twentieth century. He has been known to say “I’ve spent thirty years working out what a good thing is”.

Geoffrey has spent his career challenging the enquiring mind, and his clients over three decades have followed him. He influences creative minds,

Marseille rooftop of Unite D’habitation

even clients buying for the first time will endeavour to always find a space for a piece in their homes.

Leonard Joel is honoured to be offered The Geoffrey Hatty Collection of Applied Arts. This is an internationally diverse range of furniture and objects, sourced and loved by a true pioneer of the modernist movement.

Enquiries: Anna Grassham, Modern Design Specialist 03 8825 5637 / 0478 114 611 anna.grassham@leonardjoel.com.au

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Emanuel Phillip Fox

Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula

Moonrise, Stanwell Park, NSW c.1914, oil on canvas. SOLD $36,600 IBP

Straightening Spears 1998, acrylic on linen. SOLD $29,280 IBP

Eugene Von Guérard

Eugene Von Guérard

Lake Purrumbete, Station of Messrs Manifold 185, pencil on paper. SOLD $43,920 IBP

Near Timboon 1857, pencil on paper. SOLD $67,100 IBP

From local colonial to international contemporary Some of the earliest paintings of auction rooms present an eclectic, grand and floor to ceil-

The result, for a sector of the market recovering from the most extreme art price bubble

ing hang of works of art from all periods and of all sizes. These paintings of paintings, exude

burst in Australian history, was reassuring and confirmed we are well and truly emerging

a vitality and an enthusiasm that I think is so often lost in this new art world of seriousness

from the bottom of the aboriginal art market via the re-recognition of the truly great art-

and new mediums. Once there was a grand eclecticism to all fine art auctions but mainly

ists of this movement. While contemporary, naturally, dominates current collecting tastes,

now, with the march towards greater refinement, efficiency and simplification of offering,

rarity and freshness can give a colonial work all the bidding sparkle of a 21st century work.

you have offerings that are, well, somewhat predictable. The same roll call of artists, over

Rarity proved its value once again with the sale of two detailed pencil drawings by our most

and over again! While I’m completely biased, I’m sure that our fine catalogue offerings are

important colonial artist Eugene Von Guerard. Lot 31 and 32 carried a combined estimate of

never that. Being a full-service auction house means that we must assist great and small col-

$30,000 and realised $111,020 (IBP), leaving the audience in no doubt what happens when

lectors alike and what’s generated is, in my strong view, a splendid clash of period and con-

institutions and private collectors vie for the same prize. And finally, a late but handsome

temporary mediums and imagery. Here I highlight four results that I hope reflect that splen-

painting by the Australian impressionist Emanuel Phillips Fox, lot 35, titled Moonrise, real-

did clash that is the hallmark of a Leonard Joel fine art catalogue. It doesn’t get any more

ised $36,600 (IBP) affirming the continued appetite for Impressionist works that continue

international than Damien Hirst and we were thrilled to have been chosen to sell a suite of

to engage with collectors across the generations. The eclectic Spring offering realised a very

four butterfly works, lot 47, by the British artist and Warholesque celebrity. The set sold for

buoyant $862,540 (IBP). With Petrit Abazi passionate about period works and research and

$18,300 (IBP) which compared well to prices realised beyond our shores. No less contempo-

my passion for contemporary art I think we probably have the best team in the country for

rary was the museum quality work by the Australian aboriginal artist Turkey Tolsen. Lot 131,

the management of collections and single works across the entire art collecting spectrum.

titled Straightening Spears, was a best period work by the artist and realised $29,280 (IBP).

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FINE ART 1 DECEMBER

Damien Hirst Souls I, II, II and IV 2010 , foil block print on Arches paper (4) SOLD FOR $18,300 IBP

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Now Consigning

JEWELS & OBJET D’A RT 15 NOVEMBER 2015

Enquiries Robert Williams Specialist Jewels, Objets D’Art & Single Owner Collections

A RARE PANTHER CUFF BY CARTIER

SOLD $41,480 IBP

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Introducing new members of our Sydney team

Edwina Foley Jewellery Specialist Edwina Joins the team with a vast experience in the jewellery industry. A trained gemmologist Edwina started her auction career at Bonhams & Goodman in Sydney in 2007, and has also worked for the prestigious diamond merchant Storch & Co until 2014. As Jewellery Specialist, Edwina’s focus is on consigning Fine Jewels and Single Owner Collections.

02 9362 9045 | edwina.foley@leonardjoel.com.au

Rachael Barrowman Administrator Racheal joins Leonard Joel after a stint at Sotheby’s London were she was employed as the personal assistant to the head of the European Paintings department. Being multi-skilled Racheal also has a BA and F.G.A.A to her credit. Racheal has taken the position to help with the expansion of the Sydney office.

02 9362 9045 | rachael.barrowman@leonardjoel.com.au

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ENTRANCE TO THE COLIN LANCELEY STUDIO

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“A privileged insight into a collection encapsulating the undeniably wonderful mind of an aesthete”

Sydney Auction

THE ESTATE OF COLIN LANCELEY 16 NOVEMBER 2015 AT 6.30PM For more than three decades Colin and Kaye decorated their tranquil studio and home in

2013 Colin battled (and the adjective is not used lightly) chronic illness and his wife Kaye

Surry Hills with a profoundly eclectic sensibility. With little regard for the “status’ of things

was wholeheartedly consumed in this battle with him. Colin, as an artist, spurned many of

they set about acquiring all manner of decorative arts and fine art and after four decades of

the more transient art themes, particularly the “false seriousness” of so much contemporary

collecting the result is a very complete setting of paintings and works on paper from around

art. In this sense, Lanceley’s art was always his retort to what he shunned in art; his art was

the world, furnishings from every era with a quirkiness that befits their collecting style and

full of life, colourful, challenging and unapologetic when it came to collector tastes. His art

objects from the ancient to the modern. Colin, as artist, scholar and teacher traversed the

was never anything less than determined and robust and this trademark similarly defined

globe and with long periods abroad the collection reflects the collecting that comes with a

his refusal to, in any way, resign to his illness. My first visit to the Lanceley sanctuary was

traveller and an intellect. The spacious domestic rooms, artist studio and working rooms

a feast for the eyes and I was left with that rare feeling that one only enjoys when you have

paradoxically exude the feeling of a quiet and perfectly presented (but relaxed) gallery

surveyed the collection of a true aesthete. The Lanceley story spans the world and many

space and this seems fitting for a man that was as interested in the history of the arts as he

decades and we are honoured to have been selected as the auctioneer to manage this beauti-

was with his own art practice. Now in 2015, sometime now after Colin’s passing, we are left

ful and very personal collection.

with a legacy of collecting that is as vivacious and daring as the artist’s own work. From

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Now Consigning

MODERN DESIGN FOR AUCTION 14 DECEMBER

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PAIR OF 1980’S ITALIAN ‘T-LINE’ ARMCHAIRS BY ARFLEX

SOLD $915 IBP

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Curious to the eye, fresh to the market The August Modern Design auction was curious to the eye and the market. An obvious shift is taking place in the furniture world. Design traditions are changing course rapidly due to the influx and now steady availability of Danish and mid century furniture of the 1950s and 60s.

There has been a major resurgence in Italian A MARC NEWSON 1ST EDITION EMBRYO CHAIR SOLD $5,856 IBP

furniture, especially the dynamic and exciting designs of the 1970s and 80s. Pieces from well known designers such as Vico Magistretti, Harry Bertoia and Mario Bellini are popping up around Melbourne, and the buyers can’t seem to get enough.

Decade trends have made a come back. We only have to look at the result of the B&B Italia coffee table designed by Poalo Piva. With an estimate of $1,800 - 2,400 and selling for the highest ever auction price of $3,400. The black diamond style base with the heavy glass top makes for a striking bold piece in any design concious living room.

A GEORGE NELSON SWAG LEG DESK

SOLD $4,148 IBP

Despite a flat line in brown furniture markets generally, Modern Design is a very exciting and fast moving category. Leonard Joel are proud to be showcasing and auctioning the Geoffrey Hatty Collection of Applied Arts in November. And to finish the year off with a bang of inspiration, a December Modern Design auction. So be ready for some bold and daring changes in furniture and interiors.

A PAOLO PIVA B&B ITALIA COFFEE TABLE

SOLD $4,148 IBP

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All elephants great and small If further proof were needed that Leonard Joel is committed to voluminous collections with interesting themes, that proof was well and truly displayed with the dispersal of The Bob White Collection of Elephants. For more than 30 years he amassed a collection of elephants across every imaginable medium, period and region.

The sale of 333 lots, many made up of group lots, presented more than a thousand items almost exclusively elephant and related themes.

Bob White was a joyful collector unrestricted by stuffiness or concern for what others thought of his collection. At one point in 2000 he staged his own public elephant exhibition and even lent numerous items for Museum Victoria exhibitions.

The mini thematic auction, offered both in-room and online in real-time, realised a very pleasing $50,500 (IBP). If you have a collection great or small, contact Leonard Joel for advice about how we can expertly manage your property.

A SMALL LATE 19TH CENTURY IVORY ELEPHANT FIGURE AND AN IVORY ELEPHANT TROPHY ON HEAD ON WOODEN MOUNT SOLD $1,342 IBP

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A BIRKIN HANDBAG BY HERMES SOLD $9,150 IBP

Serious Luxe Decades ago the French recognised that artisanship and craftsmanship was also

offered 256 lots across every imaginable luxury area and realised an extraordinary

the preserve of fashion. Thus began the collecting market for high quality vintage

$90,100 (IBP), firmly positioning Leonard Joel as the largest market for the auction

leather ware and accessories from the world’s great fashion houses. Amanda Saini,

sale of luxury property in Australia. Amanda Saini, who curates our Luxury auctions,

of our Luxury department, proved the point on Saturday September 12th with the

commented: “The wonderful thing about this category is that it resonates with the

sale of lot 100, a Birkin handbag by Hermes, for $9,150 (IBP); a price that places

new collector, it is a subject matter that is universal, fashion and many of the pieces

it very much within the serious collecting realm! Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Prada

they are acquiring are not only collectable now but will be in the future – this market

also dominated proceedings with four out of the top ten results going to Chanel.

is now very well established and is here to stay!” We are now seeking high-end

Of the more charming accessories sold was lot 151, a costume Gripoix pendant

leather ware and accessories for our next quarterly luxury auction.

by Chanel, that realised a modest but pleasing $854 (IBP). The quarterly auction

Enquiries Amanda Saini, Luxury Assistant 03 8825 5645 amanda.saini@leonardjoel.com.au

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THE DAVID BROMLEY COLLECTION IN DAYLESFORD

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Bromley’s studio deaccession delights When David and Yuge Bromley decided to put 219 lots up for auction we knew the collection would delight the collecting senses. The Bromley “eye” is curious, playful, nostalgic and sophisticated so it was no surprise that we offered rare items from vintage motorcycles to contemporary art to maritime history! The highest price realised from this rather playful offering was for lot 166, a painting by the contemporary Chinese/Australian artist Zhong Chen. Against an estimate of $4,000 the work realised $5856 (IBP). A large amount of interest was generated by the discreet offering of vintage motorcycles, a category rarely seen at Leonard Joel. Lot 34, a vintage bike by Moto Guzzi from 1973, topped the results to sell for more than three times its estimate at $3,660 (IBP). A Bromley auction would not be the same without the curious and lot 159 ensured this theme continued when an antique copper and brass diving helmet was offered for auction – against an estimate of $800 it realised $1830 (IBP). The boutique auction

A 1973 MOTO GUZZI MOTORBIKE

SOLD $3,660 IBP

offering realised a pleasing $110,000 (IBP) and marked the fourth dispersal that Leonard Joel has undertaken for the Bromley art and design business.

ZHONG CHEN Figures acrylic on paper, 139cm x 159cm

A vintage copper and brass diving helmet, 43cm high

SOLD $1,830 IBP

SOLD $5,856 IBP

Enquiries: Guy Cairnduff Head of Classic Furniture & Objects 03 8825 5611 / 0407 828 137 guy.cairnduff@leonardjoel.com.au

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London Auction DREWEATTS & BLOOMSBURY INTERIORS FURNITURE, WORKS OF ART, CERAMICS & CLOCKS 13 OCTOBER 2015 AT 10AM BST

Lot 66 A flame mahogany hour repeating table clock, 19th century Estimate £600–800

Lot 78 A Worcester blue and white printed large tea bowl and saucer, circa 1758 Estimate £100–150

Lot 80 A George II mahogany side chair , circa 1750 Estimate £200–300

Lot 107 A Florentine carved giltwood wall mirror, 19th century Estimate £500–700

Lot 139 A Tabriz carpet, approximately 320cm x 400cm Estimate £800–1200

Lot 192 A Continental gilt metal, silver coloured metal applied and Paris porcelain mounted casket, late 19th century Estimate £300–400

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NEW ART & CULTURE MAGAZINE

ART COLLECTOR: DICK QUAN For Sydney’s Dick Quan, there is nothing passive about collecting art.

as a kid, which showed me how to examine details and work out what makes

By Neha Kale

something rare. One of my ancestors was the famous artist Lam Qua, the son of [Chinese artist] Spoilum. Spoilum painted portraits of Western

Some collectors are benign figures, but Dick Quan substantiates that

merchants in the late 1700s and Lam Qua was the first artist to paint with

collecting is a revolutionary act. When you step inside his Sydney medical

shadows. He also had a show at the Royal Academy in 1835, in the same

practice Holdsworth House – a space that’s a canvas for Hiromi Tango’s

room as Constable and Turner. Lam Qua was also famous for painting

colour-burst installation Nature/Nurture, as well as works by the likes of

medical conditions and his nephew was China’s first Western-trained doctor.

Tracey Moffatt, Daniel Boyd, Eko Nugroho and Destiny Deacon – it’s

All these generations later, I feel like I’m a dynastic incarnation of this person,

clear that Quan is interested in creating an environment that is at once

but I embody both the doctor side and the art side.

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stimulating and challenging. “I like exposing people to art so they can make up their mind unencumbered,” he says.

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR APPROACH TO COLLECTING?

The first piece I acquired was an Edo-period Japanese print, which was

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Quan, an obsessive art fair attendee who’s a member of the Sydney

a present from my father for my 21st birthday. At the same time, I had

Contemporary Advisory Council, believes that art world hierarchies are

become friends with a whole lot of Australian artists such as Lindy Lee,

mired in dated value systems and that the future belongs to artists that

Matthew Johnson and Mark Titmarsh. I started acquiring pieces from

reject ideas of authenticity to instead muddy existing forms. He’s also

them and my collection started growing. In 1986, I went to my first Venice

conceived a new category, ‘Pacific Rim Aesthetic Climate Change Artists’

Biennale, which made me realise that you can’t buy the best pieces

(PRACCAs), to sum up his compelling vision for contemporary art’s evolution.

retrospectively, you have to buy them prospectively. I realised that I didn’t

This year, he was immortalised in an Archibald portrait by Jeremy Kibel.

want to buy artists who were famous; I wanted to buy artists who would

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become famous in the future and could change the course of aesthetics.

HOW DID YOU FIRST BECOME INTERESTED IN ART?

It struck me that by collecting, you could make a difference, supporting

My interest in art is genetic. My mother’s family is full of extraordinary

artists who wanted to do interesting things.

collectors and one of my uncles was always interested in Chinese porcelain and Jaguar cars. He taught me how to look at things. I also collected stamps

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THE JOHN GOULD BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA AUCTION 25 OCTOBER 2015 AT 11AM View from Wednesday 21st October

Enquiries Olivia Fuller, Art Specialist 03 8825 5624 | olivia.fuller@leonardjoel.com.au Lot 3034 John Gould (1804-1881) Calyptorhynchus Macrorhynchus (Great-Billed Black Cockatoo) hand-coloured lithograph, 51 x 35cm $8,000 - 12,000