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Established in 1919, Leonard Joel is Australia’s premier auction house; a marketplace for the rare, the beautiful and the extraordinary.

Leonard Joel offers specialist expertise and regular, curated auctions in Important and Fine Jewels & Timepieces, Fine Art, Decorative Arts, Asian Works of Art, Modern Design, Prints & Multiples, Luxury and more.

In addition to our regular curated category auctions, Leonard Joel specialises in the auction of Private Collections and in our history of more than 100 years, we are proud to have been entrusted with some of the most important and interesting collections in Australia.

Leonard Joel is also renowned for The Auction Salon; a long-running and popular auction offering over 1,000 lots of Furniture, Jewellery, Art and Objects every week. The Auction Salon attracts a broad range of sellers and buyers, from interior designers through to seasoned collectors.

We look forward to welcoming you to our Melbourne or Sydney salerooms soon.

Past Auction Catalogues

1943

Porcelain and Objects of Art from the National Gallery of Victoria Collection

1952

The E. Phillips Fox and E. Carrick Fox Collection of Pictures

1974

The Maharajah of Mysore Collection

1998

The Rogowski Collection

1998

Rupert C.W. Bunny’s Une Nuit De Canicule

2011

The Lieutenant Paul McGinness WW1 Medal Group

2012

The Australian Art Investment Trust Auction

2012

The David Bromley Chapel Street Studio Collection

2013

The Menzies Lloyd's Patriotic Fund Sword

2013

Dinesh Parekh Collection of International Photographs

2015

The Mark Lissauer Collection

2015

The Graham Geddes Antiques Relocation Auction

2015

The Estate of Colin Lanceley

2016

The John Gale Collection

2016

The Ron Barassi Collection

2016

The Photographic Collection & Library of Dinesh Parekh

2017

The Kozminsky Collection

2017

Opera Australia Costumes and Memorabilia

2017

The Decorative Arts Collection of the late James Fairfax AC

2017

The Schlager Collection

2017

The 1909 Monty Noble Ashes Urn

2018

The Hose Collection

2018

The Estate of Lady Porter

2018

The Estate of Frank & Jill Jones

2019

The Magical Studio of Mirka Mora

2019

The John T. Hinkley Collection

2019

The John Hurlston Collection

2019

The Hyde Collection

2020

The Collection of the Late John Schaeffer AO

2020

A Gentleman's Collection: The Estate of Mr Neil Robertson

2020

The Private Collection of Trevor Kennedy AM

2021

Fine Art & Objet D'Art formerly from the Estate of Graham Joel

2021

Centum

2021

An Important Private Collection of Asian Art

2021

An Important Collection of Hermès Interiors

2021

Important Jewels

2022

The Kelton Collection: Indigenous Art at Leonard Joel

2022

Important Jewels

2022

Geoffrey Hatty: A Life in Design and Decorative Arts

2022

Important Works from the NAB Art Collection

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