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Significant Diamonds

Category: Important Jewels

After Leonard Joel first set and then subsequently broke its three auction records for the four most valuable auction sales of diamonds in Australia, I find myself no longer fielding emails of congratulations but questions from clients about what one needs to consider and how one should go about securing a significant diamond, and perhaps […]

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Here Comes the Sun

Category: Important Jewels

When Beyoncé appeared alongside her husband, Jay-Z, in the Tiffany & Co. About Love campaign last year, she became only the fourth woman in history to wear the stunning 128.54 carat ‘Tiffany Diamond’. Her appearance ignited an abundance of new interest in the sunny jewel. Acquired by Tiffany & Co. founder Charles Lewis Tiffany in 1877, the […]

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Choose your Cartier

Category: Fine Jewels

It’s a hard ask having to choose a Cartier wristwatch; rarely is one luxury maison responsible for so many classic designs. The brand’s relentless creativity can be summed up by Louis Cartier’s favourite saying: “Never copy, only create.” The wristwatches on the short list here perfectly embody the Cartier ethos and are the ones to […]

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Artist Spotlight: Zeng Fanzhi

Category: Fine Art

Zeng Fanzhi’s portraits are globally celebrated for his use of expressionist representational techniques that document a prolific period of social and economic development in Chinese history. With an artistic career stretching across 30 years, Zeng Fanzhi has continuously sought to infuse western theories, calligraphy and social realism developing a body of work with symbolically rich […]

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An Important Jeffrey Smart Painting

Category: Fine Art

Strong works of art are a solitary transport.  By an uncanny imaginative chemistry, they sweep the viewer into an alluring moody painted world.  Take Jeffrey Smart’s E.U.R. II.  So little is shown, yet somehow it suggests you are within an ultra-modern city.  The sky is overcast.  It is a somewhat grey afternoon.  All is so […]

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A White Glove Auction: Important Works from the NAB Art Collection

Category: Fine Art

It is a great privilege to present an art collection such as the one so thoughtfully curated by the National Australia Bank’s Art Committee in the 1970s. These artworks, covering the traditional periods through to the modern and contemporary, as well as nine extraordinary tapestries, had largely been hidden from the public for almost fifty […]

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Discovering an Unusual Australian Metalwork Teapot

Category: Decorative Arts

This unusual Australian metalwork teapot has aroused plenty of discussion and puzzlement over its unknown maker and unique design. Before it goes under the hammer in our forthcoming Decorative Arts and Asian Works of Art auction on 7 March, I thought it best to take my questions to Daniel McOwan, an authority in Australian craft […]

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Florence Dearling: Landscapes and Figure Studies

Category: The Auction Salon

The Art Salon is honoured to present a collection of works by Australian woman artist Florence Dearling (1895 – 1988), to lead the auction this week on Thursday 10 February 2022. The collection of fourteen artworks features landscapes and figure studies painted in Melbourne using oil paints, the artist’s preferred subject matter and medium. Many […]

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Dutch detection dogs help in the fight against jaguar poachers

Category: The 22nd Report

Jaguars, the largest felines in the Americas, play a crucial role in the ecosystem by maintaining biodiversity and a balance in the food web. Although they are a protected species, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has seen increasing incidents of jaguars being poached for their skin, fangs, and other body parts. Trafficked across […]

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In Conversation with Beci Orpin

Category: In Conversation

We chat to beloved Melbourne artist, designer, and illustrator, Beci Orpin, who shows us some of her favourite auction finds and shares what she loves about collecting. Her home feels like an extension of her artwork, with playful shapes and vivid colours… Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your practice? I run […]

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