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FINE ART Art to Transport us Living in Melbourne, I have spent the majority of the last 18 months in lockdown in my apartment, reading about art, or at our Leonard Joel South Yarra premises looking at it. With the ability to travel off the cards, my mind was dependent on other sources to satiate my travel desires. Fortunately, there’s been no shortage of captivating artworks throughout the year to transport me to another place so here are my top 5 artworks that took me on a journey around the world:
First stop: NEW ZEALAND Our March Fine Art auction featured an impeccable oil painting by Tim Wilson of the Manapouri mountains in the South Island of New Zealand. In the work, Tim captures the quiet grandeur of these monumental mountains. We can almost feel the crisp winter air and fog drifting past before the sun creeps in further through the clouds. How’s the serenity!
Now, time for some hustle and bustle: ITALY The wonderful Swiss artist Lill Tschudi never fails to mesmerise me and her modernist linocut, Schiffe, from our Women Artists auction captures Venice on the move. The gondoliers are hard at work, preparing for their next load of passengers taking in the sights. I can hear the gondolas clinking together as they sit docked in succession preparing for the waves about to hit from the cargo ship roaring into the canal.
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