Fresh to market works from three estates from Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales include a Justin O’Brien “Portrait of Young Man” depicted with the characteristic red sweater (Lot 42 ) and estimated at $20,000-30,000)); a major Hugh Sawrey titled “The Saddling Enclosure”(Lot 34 ) estimated at $30,000-40,000) and the “Portrait of a Pioneer” 1968 by Albert Tucker (Lot 43 ) estimated at $80,000-120,000).
The estate offerings also include three cubist pencil drawings by Tony Tuckson purchased in the early 1970s from Watters Gallery, several David Boyd’s from Schubert Galleries, two early oil paintings by Cressida Campbell (Lot 10 ) and (Lot 12 ), and a very significant floral still life by John Wolseley (Lot 20 ) from his early years in London.
Complementing the estate works are two collections from vendors who are moving interstate. One is a thirty lot collection of artworks by Norman Lindsay comprising prints, etchings, copper plates, pencil drawings and oil paintings, many with Bloomfield Gallery provenance.
The second collection includes 130 lots of 19th and 20th century black and white photography, with a wide range of subject matter, from early Australian settlement to contemporary European portraiture.
The latter includes a rare Man Ray print “Nusch Eluard Nude”(Lot 144 ) to be offered at $10,000-15,000. In April 2011 Christies London sold the same image for $24,000).
Other photographers represented in the collection include Max Dupain, Willy Lane, Thomas Andrew, William Mortensen, Harold Cazenaux, John Noone, and Antonio Beato.
Contemporary works by Dale Frank, Susan Norrie, McLean Edwards, David Bromley, Peter Booth, Richard Larter and Damien Hirst and sculpture by Guy Boyd, Barbara Tribe, Clement Meadmore and Ron Robertson Swann conclude the sale.
