LEONARd, issue 28, May 2014

Issue TWENTYEIGHT / MAY 2014

MELBOURNE / SYDNEY

The Sydney Edition

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Leonard Joel and LEONARD; now in Sydney I’m delighted to be presenting this Sydney years and I invite you to sign up to receive a little bit of New York in Sydney and when we enthusiastically bring to every client and edition of LEONARD to our NSW readers further editions, whether by post or online. you see the building you will know why. Our every transaction. Robert Williams, our fullas we gradually roll out the distribution Now having introduced you to our very own Sydney office was established to represent time representative in Sydney, is here to bring of this unique auction publication in your broadsheet I’d like to talk a little about our all our specialist departments and bring to our expertise to your collecting needs with a state. In a nutshell this monthly broadsheet beautiful boutique offices in Queen Street, both buyers and potential sellers all Leonard particular focus on fine jewellery, fine art and brings you everything that is going on (or Woollahra that we secured late last year. We Joel has to offer. And with no less than 15 single-owner collections. So if you do have a has gone on) at our auction rooms, with are situated at 39 Queen Street in one of the fields of expertise it is no exaggeration to special piece or a gap in your collection that highlights of interesting results and articles two pink brick two storey art deco buildings state that we proudly remain the last of the you need filled do not hesitate to contact by industry participants. Our newspaper that grace the south side of this bustling retail Australian based auctioneers to provide Robert Williams at our Sydney office when has been running now for more than two precinct. We like to think of our building as clients with a full-service experience that you are next in Woollahra.

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THinKinG oF SeLLinG? FROM SINGLE ITEMS TO COLLECTIONS

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TaILORED TRUST aND ESTaTE SERvICES

If you have a single item or collection you Leonard Joel has a long and distinguished wish to sell, the Leonard Joel team of spe- history of assisting both trust companies and cialists can guide you through the entire val- executors with the dispersal of important

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uation and auction process. We can provide collections. We provide fiduciaries (lawyers,

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no less than thirteen categories of auction to with a complete suite of services to manage

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of catalogue auctions in Australia. Leon- of large and small estates. Our services are

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you with experts across all collecting fields, trust officers, accountants and executors) select from and the most expansive calendar accurately and successfully the dispersal ard Joel specialists conduct insurance and specially designed to aid in the appraisal market valuations for the entire spectrum and dispersal of fine art, antiques, jewelof clients - private collectors, corporations, lery, objet d’art, collectables, books & manu-

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museums, fiduciaries and government enti- scripts and general household contents. ties are advised by our valuers and special-

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Our specialists are now sourcing single items and collections for the following categories:

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MILITaRIa BOOKS aND MaNUSCRIPTS

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Calendar

Forthcoming Auctions The Vintage Interiors Auction Every Thursday Furniture & Interiors – 10am Jewellery & Wristwatches – 10.30am Art – 11.30am Books – 12pm Objects & Collectables – 12pm

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The Monthly Toy Auction Thursday 1st May 2014 – 12pm 333 Malvern Road, South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria

Specialist Rug Collection Auction Thursday 1st May 2014 – 1pm 333 Malvern Road, South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria

An Important Collection of Contemporary Art Monday 19th May 2014 – 6.30pm

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SINGLE OWNER AUCTION

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Angus 160 - A Special Online Selling Exhibition It has been a rewarding first month in the Sydney Queen street office. The rich

Wednesday 21st May - Sunday 1st June 2014

cultural diversity of Sydney’s inhabitants has benefited the variety of objects

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being presented. We have consigned pieces from all sides of the globe. Having

Specialist Prints & Photography Auction

been raised in Scotland I am hoping to unearth some Scottish heritage pieces. I

Thursday 29th May 2014 – 11.30am

have a keen eye for Scottish silver from early provincial to 20th century. It would

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be a dream come true to unearth the likes of ‘The Barncleuch’ puritan spoon which sold in Edinburgh 2010 for £34,800. Easier to find, is my second love of

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Scottish silver Archibald Knox who for me epitomised the Scottish Art Nouveau

Sunday 1st June 2014 – 12pm

movement in Applied Arts. Followed closely by, the Glasgow-born designer and

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theorist Christopher Dresser, independent designer and pivotal figure in the Aesthetic Movement.

Beatles & Entertainment Memorabilia Auction

Having been raised by an English Father and Scottish mother I do appreciate

Thursday 5th June 2014 – 12pm

artistry from both sides of the topical and proverbial fence. The Stephen Smith

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Victorian Silver Epergne really did give me goose bumps when discovered. It is

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such an exuberant and elegant expression of Victorian taste.

Thursday 5th June 2014 – 1pm

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Angus 160 A SPECIAL online selling exhibition After our highly successful first release and sale of large scale editions by Angus O’Callaghan, Leonard Joel are excited to present a new release of twenty only large scale works by the artist. Each work measures 160 x 160cm and will be sold

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with optional framing colours. Additionally, each work can be viewed online in alternate settings so that viewers can assess the scale and impression of these works in situ. The exhibition goes online for sale on Wednesday the 21st of May at 9am and runs until midnight Sunday the 1st of June 2014. For further information contact Sophie Ullin in Melbourne or Robert Williams in Sydney.

Every Wednesday we welcome our Sydney clients to pop in and discuss their selling or buying needs. If you have a piece or photos of something you have always wondered about Wednesday is the perfect day to meet with Robert Williams for a no obligation discussion. Simply visit us between 9 and 5pm or feel free to book in a complimentary half hour appointment.

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ANGUS O’CALLAGHAN (BORN 1922) The Sporting City archival print on rag paper

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Melbourne Enquiries Sophie Ullin | Head of Art (03) 8825 5609 sophie.ullin@leonardjoel.com.au

Often clients have a collection for dispersal that does not quite fit the usual value criteria for a stand-alone auction. At Leonard Joel we have perfected bespoke

Sydney Enquiries Robert Williams | Sydney Representative (02) 9362 9045 robert.williams@leonardjoel.com.au

marketing packages for small but important collections that enable clients to individualise their collection during the auction process without the costs normally associated with a single-owner auction. Speak to our Specialist Collector department to discuss your collection and how we can maximise its potential at auction.

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Dominic Kavanagh’s The Beehive is an aestheticizing ruin, it is prescribed purpose

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installation inspired by and sourced from and worth. urban ruins. Kavanagh metaphorically relates the lifeless urban scrapheap to the In this most recent of Kavanagh’s signacontrastingly buzzing, complex and teem- ture scrapheaps, The Beehive embraces ing circumstance of an archetypal beehive.

nostalgic notions of domestic kitsch with the incorporation of synthetic plants and

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a seemingly benign trickling water feature which in fact serves a critical role as genera-

Catalogue essay by Charity Bramwell:

tor of sound. You can almost hear the hum

The notion of beehive conjures an image of of the electricity source required to create myriad worlds. Chamber upon chamber of such an artificial representation of ambient industrious activity - a thousand individual ‘nature’. Kavanagh’s sourced artificial plants elements, each one a different window into - the detritus of a specific moment in intea new universe, all carefully constructed as rior decorating time, now passed, are preone connected, seething entity.

sented as the very embodiment of falsified

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So too, Dominic Kavanagh’s sculptural ruin. Here, the viewer is privy to a whimsi‘scrapheaps’ provide multiplicitous win- cal detour in the journey of discarded foliage dows into the memory (and former life) that will never decompose. of objects. A collector of the decayed, Deceptively chaotic, Kavanagh’s manudiscarded, and detritus of everyday life, factured ruins are, in fact, highly resolved.

Kavanagh treats each abandoned element Aesthetically confusing at first glance, the with affectionate reverence. These ‘treasure composition and logic of form, texture and artefacts’ bring with them individual his- repetition emerge as the viewer’s eye adjusts tory, and assembled together, create worlds to the initial overload of visual information. containing unlimited stories within.

The ‘ruin’ reveals itself as gentle, enchanting

Drawing from the aesthetics of contempo- and friendly - evoking the childhood delight rary ‘ruin’, Kavanagh carefully - perhaps of adventure and discovery. In this sense obsessively - constructs artificial landscapes Kavanagh presents to us a conundrum, a

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from found-object materials. His installa- paradox of chaos and order; detritus and tion, assemblage, and performance practice, treasure; and the authentic aestheticizing of honed over a number of years, is a re-mix of a falsified ruin. sorts… re-curating his collection of found At once The Beehive recalls methodical artefacts through constant re-use and revi- archaeological dig, childhood scavenger sion. In recent years Kavanagh has devel- hunt, and the industrious activity of insects oped his hybrid practice with the intro- constructing their hive. A world of worlds, duction of sound and performance aspects. discovered once and offered up by Kavanagh Much like the installations themselves, his to be discovered again. very practice is composed of re-constructed, de-constructed, and refigured elements. By By Charity Bramwell 2014

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FINE JEWELLERY

An Emerald and Diamond Ring Sold for $24,400 IBP A Cartier Ballon Bleu Diamond Wristwatch Sold for $18,300 IBP

An Impressive Yellow Diamond Ring Sold for $91,500 IBP

An Emerald Diamond Necklace Sold for $14,640 IBP

DISCOVERED IN SYDNEY A Victorian Locket by Harry Emanuel of London Sold for $6,710 IBP

Now consigning fine JEWELLERY for AUCTION 16 JUNE 2014

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FINE JEWELLERY

FINE JEWELLERY

John D’Agata, National Head of Jewellery & Sydney Office

Why I love Sydney My first trip to Sydney when I was a boy

Once the Antique precinct of Sydney, Queen through the majestic Botanic Gardens at the I love the banter shared by clients both new

filled me with enchantment. My impression Street has now been transformed into the end of a busy day. I am spoiled for choice and old; our regular clients always welcome of Sydney Harbor and my fascination with most vibrant collection of designer boutiques, when it comes to restaurants, but at the top me like an old friend and I always welcome the iconic ferries and cruise liners still fantastic cafes and eclectic homeware stores. of the tree is Felix as they are always very the opportunity to make new acquaintances. evoke vivid and joyous memories.

Little Nonetheless the cultural heart of the street accommodating when I dine on my own. I It seems like such a long time since I first

did I know back then that I would come to beats strongly with Leonard Joel Sydney at love Ananas when I’m with friends and the visited this wonderful town. Now Sydney has experience this fabulous city and all it has to number 39, sitting squarely amongst it all! offer by working at our office in Queen Street Woollahra on a regular basis.

Fish shop in Potts Point is perfect when I am become a part of me.

The city and inner city is always vibrant in the mood for something informal - very and exciting and nothing beats my walks Sydney!

John D’AGATA NATIONAL HEAD OF JEWELLERY & SYDNEY OFFICE

DO YOU HAVE JEWELLERY THAT REQUIRES RAPID TRANSACTION? Leonard Joel boasts Australia’s largest auction market of jewellery with auctions taking place all year round. For various reasons the traditional quarterly auction cycle does not suit some clients and for this reason our jewellery department has the capacity to turn around jewellery sales within 10 workings days. If you require a rapid sale do not hesitate to contact Robert Williams at our Sydney office.

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FINE ART

FINE ART

Head of Fine Art, Sophie Ullin will be in Sydney Wednesday 7 May consigning for THE June Fine Art Auction.

Sophie Ullin, Head of Art

AN IMPRESSIVE Bourdelle SCULPTURE CONSIGNED IN SYDNEY AND to be offered in june “From 1888 to his death in 1929, [Émile Antoine] Bourdelle made around eighty sculptures, with the figure of figure of [Ludwig van] Beethoven featuring quite prominently. Early on the artist from Mautauban identified with the German composer, aesthetically as well as physically. Bourdelle therefore endlessly depicted an alter ego, sometimes by pursuing the idea of resemblance, sometimes by deforming his facial features, even distorting them. Here, at the turn of the century, the artist chose to deliver a frontal, static image of Beethoven, deploying his voluminous hair in space and structuring his inscrutable face around a pained grimace.“ 1 ÉMILE ANTOINE BOURDELLE (French, 1861-1929) Beethoven, Tête Monumentale, étude pour le Métropolitain 1902 bronze, ed. 5/8 62cm (height) $20,000 - 30,000

Another example from this same edition belongs to the permanent collection of Werner Bär im Kunsthaus Zürich and Musée Bourdelle, Paris.

1 Colin Lemoine at http://www.bourdelle.paris.fr/en/oeuvre/head-beethoven-hebrard-version

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FINE ART

WOLFGANG SIEVERS (1913-2007) Sydney Harbour Bridge from the North 1961

WOLFGANG SIEVERS (1913-2007) Sydney Cove with Sydney Opera House under construction 1961

Images of sydney that found their way to leonard Joel

MARK STRIZIC (BORN 1928) Sydney 1963

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WOLFGANG SIEVERS (1913-2007) M.V Kungsholm in Sydney Harbour 1958

PEGG CLARKE (CIRCA 1890-1956) Monuments - Archibald - Hyde Park Sydney 1926-1927

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OUR QUEEN STREET OFFICE

OUR QUEEN S VIEWINGS IN SYDNEY Our four major fine jewellery auctions are now being exhibited in Sydney and can be viewed in our rooms prior to our Melbourne auctions and please check our website and LEONARD for other Sydney previews and special forthcoming exhibitions.

EXHIBITION SPACE Our fully refurbished rooms in Sydney, with two distinct gallery spaces and catering facilities, are an ideal venue for a boutique exhibition or selling event.

If you require an exhibition space in the heart of one of Sydney’s busiest retail precincts do not hesitate to contact us.

INTERESTED IN BUYING FROM OUR MELBOURNE AUCTIONS? Leonard Joel has an extensive list of carriers and freight agents that can assist you with your purchases big or small. Simply visit our website and go to our “BUY” page where our carrier list can be found. If you wish to purchase from Leonard Joel regularly and require a tailored solution simply contact our Sydney office to discuss.

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John D’Agata, National Head of Jewellery & Sydney Office

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OUR QUEEN STREET OFFICE

STREET OFFICE VALUATION DAY IN SYDNEY EVERY WEDNESDAY

BY APPOINTMENT ROBERT WILLIAMS (02) 9362 9045 39 Queen StREET, woollahra, NSW 2025

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CLASSIC FURNITURE, OBJECTS & Collectables

Classic Furniture & Objects

Guy Cairnduff, Head of Classic Furniture & Objects

Irrespective of category, medium, period or style, collecting is the activity which transcends defined boundaries in the world of art and antiques and is central to the existence of the fine art auctioneer. With this in mind, the June Classic Furniture, Objects & Collectables auction will have a special focus on the collector: the categories normally encompassed by the department will be presented as ten distinct single owner collections in order to provide a personal context and character to each individual offering.

Consigned in Sydney

EUROPEAN SCHOOL 19TH CENTURY Portrait of Colonel Taylor in British Military Uniform oil on canvas, 126 x 98.5cm $5,000 - 7,000

Classic Furniture, Objects & Collectables Auction Sunday 1 June 2014, 12pm

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AN Important circa 1870s live steam model of the ‘Charlotte Dundas’, the first practical steam powered vessel designed by Willliam Symington in 1801 $10,000 - 15,000

Preview Wednesday 28th May 9am-8pm Thursday 29th May 10am-4pm Friday 30th May 10am-4pm Saturday 31st May 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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A SUBSTANTIAL STERLING SILVER CRICKET PRESENTATION EPERGNE STEPHEN SMITH,LONDON, CIRCA 1873 supporting five etched glass cups and central etched glass platter, the base inscribed $10,000 - 15,000

Giles Moon Head of Modern Design & Collectables (03) 8825 5635 / 0439 493 038 giles.moon@leonardjoel.com.au

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SYDNEY SHOWCASE

An Art Deco Gilt bronze and ivory ‘Hindu Dancer’ figure signed Cl.J.R Colinet Sold for $30,000 IBP

This figure featured on the front cover of the catalogue for the European and Australian Decorative Arts, Furniture & Fine Art auction on 26th August 2008.

It was one of a selection of the finest items from the Melbourne auction which were featured in a special Sydney showcase. The figure sold to a Sydney buyer who attended the Double Bay viewing.

A Victorian oak long case regulator clock by Elliott $10,000 - 15,000

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ASIAN ART

ASIAN ART Sold-Ivory snuff bottle Lot 164, Sunday 19th May 2013 A RELIEF CARVED IVORY SNUFF BOTTLE 19TH CENTURY SOLD $13,420.00 IBP

This impressive censor privately held for some 40 years will be offered in our June auction.

Sold-Namikawa Lot 337, Sunday 5th June 2011 A JAPANESE NAMIKAWA YASUYUKI CLOISONNE COVERED VASE MEIJI PERIOD (1868 -1912), SIGNED KYOTO NAMIKAWA SOLD $39,040.00 IBP

Sold-Embroidered screen Lot 60, Sunday 25th September 2011 A SUPERB CHINESE EMBROIDERED SILK PANEL QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY SOLD $36,600.00 IBP

AN IMPRESSIVE NEPHRITE AND GILT BRONZE CENSOR INSET WITH CORAL CABOCHONS POSSIBLY SINO-TIBETAN, 19TH / 20TH CENTURY EST $20,000-30,000

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Preview Wednesday 28th May 9am-8pm Thursday 29th May 10am-4pm Friday 30th May 10am-4pm Saturday 31st May 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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Liza Hallam Specialist Asian Works of Art (03) 8825 5626 liza.hallam@leonardjoel.com.au

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SINGLE OWNER COLLECTION

ONSITE LUXURY HOME CONTENTS AUCTIONS The Leonard Joel single-owner auction department was recently engaged to manage the cataloguing, marketing and dispersal of the contents of one of Australia’s finest private residences, 16 St Georges Road Toorak. If you have a Melbourne or Sydney home contents and require advice about its refinement or complete dispersal contact Robert Williams in Sydney or Guy Cairnduff in Melbourne for a confidential and no-obligation appraisal.

The Contents of 110 Vale Street, East Melbourne To be offered in the Classic Furniture, Objects & Collectables Auction Sunday 1 June at 12pm

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COLLECTABLES

COLLECTABLES Xmen battlesuit takes leonard joel by stORm

Giles Moon, Head of Modern Design & Collectables

On 12th June, 1964 The Beatles touched down at Adelaide Airport for the first leg of their Australian tour. An estimated crowd of 300,000 turned out to catch a glimpse of the band which was remarkable considering this was approximately one third of the population of Adelaide. On 5th June, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Beatles 1964 Australian tour, Leonard Joel will be offering a remarkable collection of fifty photographs of the Beatles and the crowds that met them in Adelaide. These mostly unpublished black and white images will be sold individually and will be sold with copyright.

Collection of photographs taken during the Beatles’ 1964 tour of Australia.

To be sold with copyright.

Estimates for individual images range between $500 - 1,500

This collection of Beatles memorabilia will be available for viewing in Sydney with our specialist Giles Moon.

For further information contact our Sydney Office (02) 9362 9045

Beatles & Entertainment Memorabilia Auction Thursday 5 June 2014, 12pm

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Preview in Melbourne Wednesday 31st May 9am-8pm Wednesday 4th June 9am-8pm

Original concert ticket for Beatles at Festival Hall, Melbourne, 1964 $100 - 150

Battlesuit worn by Halle Berry as ‘Storm’ in ‘X-Men’, 20th Century Fox, 2000 $15,000 - 20,000

Enquiries Giles Moon Head of Modern Design & Collectables (03) 8825 5635 / 0439 493 038 giles.moon@leonardjoel.com.au

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ausTralIaN arT booKs

aUSTRaLIaN aRT - A hISTORY

FIELDWORK

By Jo Bertini Will be available in stores in August 2014

‘It is only possible to paint the desert with knowledge. You cannot just dip into the desert and hope to see it. Jo Bertini has been very fortunate in going into the desert repeatedly … There is an energy in her brush that corresponds with the emotional response to this landscape.’

Andrew Sayers, director, National Portrait Gallery Fieldwork is a visually engaging contemporary art book that brings to life artist Jo Bertini’s long and intimate involvement with the Australian desert. Her pen and ink drawings, works in pencil, charcoal, as well as hundreds of small gouaches, are a vibrant visual diary of the changing landscape.

This highly illustrated book will reinvigorate the way we see the desert by creating a fresh perspective on the existing visual narrative. Spirited and uncompromising, Bertini is one of a only a small number of non-indigenous Australian artists for whom the desert has become

AUSTRALIAN ART: A HISTORY

By Sasha Grishin $175 (Miegunyah Press)

an essential subject. As a woman travelling to extreme and remote areas with a string of camels, her experiences are unique.

It is from the hundreds of sketchbooks that make up Bertini’s archive that a

Respected art historian Sasha Grishin brings his lifelong study and knowledge of Australian

selection of images has been drawn and distilled into a single stunning volume.

art into this one magnificent tome. Australian Art: A History provides an overview of our

Her work reflects the desert in it many moods harsh and forbidding or a

visual art history, from early Indigenous work to European settler late 18th and 19th century

wonderland of colour and life as it appears after the rains. There is a yearning in Bertini’s

depictions of a new and beautiful land, through the various significant movements of the

drawings and gouaches, an ache to connect with what she sees, before it disappears.

20th Century, to the nation’s vigorous contemporary art scene.

Rarely do we get so close to the experience of an artist at work.

National Gallery of Victoria Director Tony Ellwood describes the book as a lively and insightful account of the diversity and richness of artistic endeavour of this country’’. We

With an introduction by Robyn Davidson, author of the best-selling book Tracks,

believe it is a must-have for any admirer of Australian art.

Fieldwork, is an authentic engagement with the desert lands and Bertini as a painter and explorer.

BY CORRIE PERKIN

For further information email Niki Zubrzycki - Zabriskie Books zabriskiebooks@gmail.com

Corrie Perkin is the owner of My Bookshop By Corrie Perkin, 513 Malvern Road, Hawksburn www.mybookshop.net.au

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Works of Jo Bertini

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CONTEMPORARY ART

AN Important MELBOURNE AUCTION

contemporary Art

7 § BRETT WHITELEY (1939-1992) Bird Bathing 1990 hand painted ceramic, 32cm (diameter) $18,000 - 24,000 © courtesy of Wendy Whiteley

72 DEL KATHRYN BARTON (born 1972) Girl as a Sorcery Figure (Version 5) 2006 oil, acrylic and pen on canvas, 100 x 80cm $30,000 - 40,000

20 MIRKA MORA (born 1928) The Enchanted Garden 1994 oil on canvas, 75 x 175cm $12,000 - 15,000

© courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

36 REX DUPAIN (born 1954) Nude and Water Tanks 1995 silver gelatin print, 39 x 39cm $450-650

3 MAX DUPAIN (1911-1992) Sunbaker 1937 silver gelatin print, later printing, 38 x 41.5cm $10,000 - 15,000

67 § MICHAEL ZAVROS (born 1974) Springfall White 2006 acrylic on canvas, 150 x 110cm $18,000 - 25,000

© reproduced with the permission of VISCOPY Ltd

An Important Collection of Contemporary Art Monday 19 May 2014, 6.30pm

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32 SHANE COTTON (born 1964) Outlook (Purple) 2007 synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 180 x 160cm $48,000 - 68,000

Enquiries Sophie Ullin Head of Art (03) 8825 5609 / 0413 912 307 sophie.ullin@leonardjoel.com.au

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MODERN DESIGN

MODERN DESIGN AUCTION THURSDAY 26 JUNE Thursday 26 June sees the return of Leonard Joel’s specialist Modern Design Auction with a particular focus on some of Australia’s most celebrated mid-century designers including Schulim Krimper, Dario Zoureff Grant Featherston and Douglas Snelling.

The sale will feature more than 15 lots of Grant Featherston furniture from a private Melbourne Collection. One of the highlights is an Expo 67 Mark II Talking Chair (pictured). Featherston was commissioned to design this lounge chair for the Australian Pavillion at the Expo ‘67 in Montreal, Canada. The chair incorporated a tape player with pre-recorded programmes on Australian life narrated by noted Australians.

The recording was triggered by a switch under the seat cushion and played through headphones attached to the chair.

The design was later adapted by Aristoc and launched commercially as the Expo ‘67 Mark II. $12,000 - 15,000

Final Entries Close Friday 23 May Modern Design Auction Thursday 26 June 2014

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Enquiries Giles Moon Head of Modern Design & Collectables (03) 8825 5635 / 0439 493 038 giles.moon@leonardjoel.com.au

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WAYNE WHITE Gotta, 2013 acrylic on offset lithograph, framed 53.3 x 68.6 cm Courtesy the artist and Western Project, Los Angeles

WAYNE WHITE AND THE PATHWAY OF LUCK Having worked as a cartoonist, set-designer, animator and puppeteer, Wayne White’s contemporary art career comes with a very different set of baggage.

By Max Olijnyk Hollywood-based, Tennessee-born artist Wayne White’s word paintings are a celebration of duality. His bright, three-dimensional letters sit in the tranquil, somewhat trashy confines of thrift store landscape paintings, forming words that proclaim something that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with where they have found themselves.

Ranging from sly digs at the art world (Maybe Now I’ll Get The Respect I So Richly Deserve) and unsettling observations (We Were Partyin At The Lake And This Girl Starts Freakin Out) to creepily simple (Gotta), White’s word paintings are cannily imagined and skilfully executed. And they’re just the start of it.

Nearly two years on from the release of Beauty is Embarrassing, a documentary that focuses on White’s amazing career as a cartoonist, set designer, animator, puppeteer and contemporary artist, we had a chance to ask him some questions over a crackly telephone line.

YOU’VE COMPARED YOUR SOUTHERN UPBRINGING TO LIVING IN A WINE PRESS. DO YOU THINK THAT WANTING TO ESCAPE SOMEWHERE BREEDS

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A CERTAIN KIND OF MOTIVATION THAT WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN THERE IF YOU GREW UP IN, SAY, NEW YORK? I always say I was formed more by negative things than positive things. It was negative reinforcement you know: what not to do, how not to act, what I don’t want. I didn’t have any tangible thing around me that I did want, so I reacted against things as a lot of adolescents do.

DO YOU THINK THAT OVER TIME YOU’VE BECOME MORE AT PEACE WITH THE SOUTH? OR DO YOU STILL FEEL THAT REACTION TO IT? I like to think you grow a little calmer and wiser as you get older. I’m a middle-aged man now. You live long enough and you realise you have to forgive and you look honestly at yourself and all the mistakes you made, and you know you shouldn’t judge other people for their mistakes. I guess there’s always going to be a bit of residual anger there, because you get so used to using anger as a sort of muse.

IT’S A CALL TO ACTION, ISN’T IT? It’s a motivator. I think a lot of men have anger issues; it’s just part of our chemistry. Women too, of course; it’s part of being human. You get used to it, you warm your hands over that fire. But you get older and it gets tiring, you know? You want to enjoy life – you don’t want to just burn all the time.

Read the full interview in Issue 6 of Vault magazine. Out now.

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