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135 MIRKA MORA (BORN 1928) Mermaid Creature handmade painted doll 81cm (length) $3,000 - 5,000

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EVERYTHING NEW IS OLD AGAIN John Albrecht, Managing Director Leonard Joel

Antique, period, vintage, second-hand, pre- be considered to be “more collectable” and understand that if they are looking simply impossible to source internationally unless owned, reproduction, in the style of; these therefore more valuable – the idea being for a look, then they need to know that this you were a government body. A decade or two are just some of the descriptors used by that something that was old was usually rare will often not be underpinned by either ago no one would have conceived of these our industry and collectors to pin-point the and more special (greater craftsmanship) quality of manufacture or rarity of producer; items as “collectable” or as “old” or as “rare” age, ownership or style of an object or work than something that was “made yesterday”. the traits that often assist the future value of but I find myself becoming slowly convinced of art. As I enjoy regularly walking retail My American experience is also interesting an item. Secondly, if they want more than a that these objects too will permanently form and antique shopping strips and looking because on every one of my trips to the USA I look then they need to seek out those items part of the accepted collecting lexicon. In at the latest window display I am taken by have consistently noticed that their use of the that also represent scarcity of supply (rarity), 2013 new collectors find themselves faced just how blurred the line has truly become word “antique” is more about style than age. longevity of appeal (a hard thing to predict) with an unrestricted spectrum of collecting between what is old and what is new. Gift There it seems they are generally less fixated and quality and complexity of manufacture. opportunities that seems to say “everything shops, stationery shops and interior design on how old something is and more about With these additional filters the young is collectable if enough people want it to be”. shops regularly showcase fascinating items how it looks - which gets to my point, I think! collector will go a long way toward becoming I think new collectors need to be aware that that on their face look old but are perfectly As the definitions about what is collectable a discerning collector. Finally, I think there good design, wonderful craftsmanship and new. Once upon a time, perhaps at least have become more blurred so to have the is a need for active and younger collectors “good buying” can now be found throughout until the advent of the American post-war distinctions between what is old, what is new alike to decipher the current post-war and the periods (not just the currently cool consumer/collector, it was clear what was and everything in between. In this age when design-focused offering and separate the ones) and that maybe the ultimately most old (or antique) and what wasn’t. In simple potentially everything is collectable (a very truly decorative from the modern item of personally satisfying “look” and “surround” terms the various antique associations of the democratic notion indeed) seasoned and substance. I write these tips but I profess is the one where every period, from antique world deemed something “antique” if it was new collectors alike should be wondering to still be “working out” the direction of to contemporary, has been incorporated in to 100 years of age and not antique if it was any how this will impact their approach to collecting in the 21st century. Very recently I a kind of grand eclecticism. younger. For many of the twentieth century’s collecting and I think it will be affected in was shown the most extraordinary collection decades this was a useful delineation to several different ways. Firstly, I think young of industrial glass vessels and parts; no assist people with determining what might collectors and decorators of things need to longer available in Australia and probably

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Australian and International Art

Fine Jewellery Auction Tuesday 26 March at 6:30pm

Fine Jewellery and Wristwatches Pre-Owned Luxury

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BY HERMES The handbag styled in Blue Jean Togo leather with Palladium metal hardware, 35cm. $8,000 - 12,000

Classic Objects and Furniture Modern Design Single Owner Collections Collectable Toys and Sporting Memorabilia Militaria Books and Manuscripts

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Specialist Print Auction Thursday 7th March 2013 – 11.30am 333 Malvern Road, South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria

Modern Design Auction Thursday 7th March 2013 – 6.30pm 333 Malvern Road, South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria

The Mr Joel Barlow Collection Sunday 10th March 2013 – 9am Antique & Fineart Auctions

INTERSTATE AUCTION

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The Fine Art Auction Tuesday 19th March 2013 – 6.30pm 333 Malvern Road, South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria

Monthly Toy Auction

Fine Art Auction Tuesday 19 March at 6:30pm

Thursday 21st March 2013 – 12pm 333 Malvern Road, South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria

147 PETER BLIZZARD (1940-2010) Untitled steel with concrete base 222cm (height including base) $3,000 - 5,000

Fine Jewellery & Pre-Owned Luxury Auction Tuesday 26th March 2013 – 6.30pm 333 Malvern Road, South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria

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ENTRIES iNVITED MODERN DESIGN

AUCTION 7 MARCH AT 11.30Am ONLINE bidding will be available for this auction

3003 MICHAEL LEUNIG (BORN 1944) Simply This lithograph 76/85 $400 - 600

Leonard Joel is pleased to announce that effective 12 March, Giles Moon will take the role of Head of Modern Design. In his current role as Head of Collectables, Giles is a familiar face at Leonard Joel and brings 25 years of international auction industry experience to this category. He commented ‘Over the last two years we have seen exceptional growth in post-war design and I am thrilled to have been given the opportunity to further develop this exciting and vibrant area of collecting at Leonard Joel’.

Giles is currently accepting entries for the forthcoming Collectables and Modern Design sales in May and August respectively.

Enquiries Giles Moon Head of Modern Design (03) 8825 5635 giles.moon@leonardjoel.com.au

Enquiries Nicole Salvo, Assistant Head of Art (03) 8825 5624 nicole.salvo@leonardjoel.com.au

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3008 ROBERT JACKS (BORN 1943) Cello 2002 screenprint 10/20 $600 - 800

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ALWAYS CONSIGNING Jewellery Including important signed jewellery, collectable wristwatches, Australian jewellery and pre-owned luxury

Art Including important Australian and international art Photography and Sculpture

Classic Furniture and Objects Including modern design and single-owner collections

Collectables Including toys, sporting memorabilia and militaria

MONTHLY Toy sale

A DANISH OLIVE LEATHER WINGBACK ARMCHAIR Sold for $ 793 IBP

AUCTION 21 MARCH AT 12pm A VINTAGE FAIRGROUND GIRAFFE Sold for $ 1,159 IBP

BANDAI (BANDAI) 579 MESSERSCHMITT TINPLATE FRICTION CAR Estimate on Request

Leonard Joel auctioned their first Monthly vendors equally pleased. Some of the sale Interiors Auction on February 7, a concept highlights included a Danish sofa selling designed to offer what is fashionable and for $2600, a Vintage Railway Clock selling popular in art and furnishings amongst for $700, and a quirky Vintage Fairground Melbournians. The auction was met with Giraffe selling for $950. resounding approval with eager buyers Leonard

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in-room bidding, an abundance of absen- Eoghan Doherty on 03 8825 5632 or email tee bids and a high sale rate of 90%, prices eoghan.doherty@leonardjoel.com.au. achieved well above estimates keeping

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FINE Art

6 CALLUM MORTON (BORN 1965) New Canaan, Connecticut 2001 from the series ‘Local +/or General’ digital print, from an edition of 30 76 x 150cm $4,000 - 6,000

15 § HAZEL DOONEY (BORN 1978) Study for Big Pin Up: Miss July 2010-2011 gouache on 100% cotton cold-pressed paper 47.5 x 23.5cm $1,800 - 2,500

Fine Art Auction Tuesday 19 March 2013 at 6:30pm

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55 RICK AMOR (BORN 1948) The Sisters 1990 oil on linen 69.5 x 90cm $28,000 - 32,000

Viewing Wednesday 13th March 2013 10am - 8pm Thursday 14th March 2013 10am - 4pm Friday 15th March 2013 10am - 4pm

Saturday 16th March 2013 10am - 5pm Sunday 17th March 2013 10am - 5pm Monday 18th March 2013 10am - 4pm

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48 DAVID BROMLEY (BORN 1960) A painted cube depicting various scenes acrylic on canvas on board 39 x 59 x 59cm $800-1,200

90 JOHN BRACK (1920-1999) Reaching 1973 conte on paper 25 x 17.5cm $15,000 - 20,000

49 DAVID BROMLEY (BORN 1960) A painted cube depicting various scenes including butterflies and children acrylic on canvas on board 59 x 59 x 59cm $1,000-2,000

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FINE JEWELLERY

FINE JEWELLERY AUCTION

256 Sapphire and diamond pendant by de Grisogono $10,000 - $$15,000

At our new time spot, Leonard Joel is proud to offer a wide variety of Fine Jewellery including designer, Antique and contemporary pieces, as well as an extensive range of wristwatches including Rolex, Cartier, Bvlgari and Jaeger LeCoultre.

This auction also features a single owner collection of luxurious gems from a private estate. Pre-Owned Luxury moves to the new timeslot of 1pm Thursday 28 March.

Viewing times as advertized. Printed catalogues available on request.

84 Automobile brooch $1,000 - $1,500

Fine Jewellery Auction Tuesday 26 March 2013 at 6.30pm at Leonard Joel Saleroom

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Sydney Viewing Queen Street Gallery 28 Queen Street Woollahra Friday 15 March, 2013 Saturday 16 March, 2013 Sunday 17 March, 2013

Melbourne Viewing Saturday 23rd March 2013 10am - 5pm Sunday 24th March 2013 10am - 5pm Monday 25th March 2013 10am - 5pm

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205 Tahitian pearl and diamond pendant $2,200 - $2,800

204 Tahitian pearl and diamond earrings $2,600 - $3,000

133 Diamond & Pearl pendant necklace $40,000 - $50,000

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ANDANTE

ANDANTE Bernard Hall in his studio in 1930 where Andante hangs to the right of the artist.

Photograph taken by Pegg Clarke, courtesy of the University of Melbourne.

Bernard Hall in his National Gallery studio circa 1986 showing an engraving/photograph of Andante hanging beside his desk Photographer unknown, Courtesy of the University of Melbourne

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ANDANTE

30

Probably The London Magazine, London,

a tree playing the double pipe. When

LINDSAY BERNARD HALL (1859-1935)

9th February 1889, page number missing*

exhibited at the Institute of Painters in

Andante circa 1887-1888

‘Royal Art Society: A Strong Exhibition’,

Oil Colours in London in 1888, it was

oil on canvas

The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney,

praised for its beauty of form and accurate

signed ‘B. Hall’ lower left

25 August, 1906, p. 13

draughtsmanship with one critic noting ‘to

30.5 x 69cm

say that it is far and away the best nude in * References sourced from Bernard Hall

the exhibition is to give a meagre idea of

PROVENANCE

Papers, National Gallery of Australia,

its merit’. i

Purchased in 1890 from the artist by

Canberra

Photographs of the artist’s Melbourne studios from 1906 and 1930 show Andante

Elsinore Mary Shuter (who later became the artist’s wife)

RELATED WORK

proudly displayed in the background,

Remained in Bernard Hall’s collection until

Andante, oil on canvas, 62 x 138cm,

suggesting that Hall treasured this early

he died

Sotheby’s Australia, Fine Australian

work. As noted by Gwen Rankin, Hall

Private collection, Melbourne

Paintings, Melbourne, 30/04/1995,

produced later versions of at least seven

lot no. 50

or eight early paintings, most painted originally in England and remaining in

EXHIBITED

Installation shot of Exhibition of Paintings by the Late Bernard Hall, Athenaeum Galleries, Melbourne, 27 May- 8 June 1935, where Andante is on display on the back wall Photographer unknown, Courtesy of Private Collection, Melbourne

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Royal Institute of Oil Painters, London

OTHER NOTES

the artist’s possession, and Andante is

1888

Leonard Joel is grateful to Gwen Rankin,

one such example. ii In a larger scale

Royal Art Society of New South Wales,

whose biography of Bernard Hall will be

version of the work painted in the 1920s,

Sydney 1906, no. 73

released in May 2013, for her assistance in

Hall captures the same graceful nymph

Exhibition of Paintings by the Late Bernard

cataloguing and researching this work.

at the foot of a tree, however with this

Hall, Athenaeum Galleries, Melbourne, 27

$8,000-12,000

later work he has added figures to the clearing in the landscape in the upper

May- 8 June 1935, no. 35, 30gns, referred to as Andante (original sketch)

English-born Lindsay Bernard Hall came to

left corner. In justifying this practice to a

Exhibition of Paintings and Antiques: The

Australia in 1892 following his appointment

disgruntled purchaser of the painting The

Works and Collection of the late Bernard

as the Director of the National Gallery

Quest, Hall explains ‘you are mistaken in

Hall, Esq., Illawara, Melbourne, 2-13 June

of Victoria and Head of the Art School.

thinking I am acting entirely contrary to

1936, no. 45, 15gns, referred to as Andante

Through the Felton Bequest, Hall was

the etiquette of the artist’s profession in

Sketch

responsible for important purchases of

repeating myself occasionally in this way....

art which are amongst the great treasures

there is absolutely nothing to prevent an

LITERATURE

of the NGV today, such as Pissarro’s

artist doing this- varying or bettering his

‘Institute of Painters in Oil Colours’,

Boulevard Montmartre and Rembrandt’s

results- I suppose I have done so in about

The Graphic, London, 10 November 1888,

Two Philosophers.

half [a] doz[en] cases out of my own many

p. 491

Painted while Hall was still living in

pictures’. iii

The Times, London, 3 November 1888,

London and working as a black and

page number missing*

white artist for the illustrated press,

i The Times, The Globe and probably The London Magazine, sourced

The Globe, London, 5 November 1888,

Andante depicts an Arcadian scene with

ii Correspondence with Gwen Rankin, 8 February 2013

page number missing*

a nude nymph classically reclined under

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from Bernard Hall Papers, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra iii Bernard Hall, Draft Letter, recipient unknown, 8 October 1919, Bernard Hall Papers, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

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The Murray Walker RESULTS

Lot 196 DEPARTMENT STORE DOUBLE SIDED WOOD DIRECTION SIGN ‘HALL STANDS’ AND ‘LINOLEUMS’ 183CM LONG Sold for $ 1,300 IBP

THE MURRAY WALKER COLLection RESULTS

Discerning collectors of Australian history

The top price of the day was achieved by

gathered in the Leonard room for the

lot 179, a John Brack lithograph ‘Junior

Murray Walker Sale on 14 February. For

Latin American’ 1969 which sold for $6,700

more than half a century well known artist,

(IBP) against an estimate of $1,800-2,500.

collector and social historian Murray Walker

The pick of the furniture was a stunning

formed one of the finest private collections

set of garden furniture constructed entirely

of Australian depression furniture, objects,

from

art, ceramics and ephemera. Unsurprisingly,

(IBP) against an estimate of $3,000-4,000.

there was spirited bidding from institutional,

Another highlight was a magnificent ‘Hall/

private and trade buyers with many lots

Linoleums’department store sign lot 196

exceeding their pre-sale estimates.

that realised $1,300 against an estimate of

horseshoes

that

realised

$4,390

$200-300.

Lot 179 JOHN BRACK (1920-1999) Junior Latin American 1969 lithograph 28 x 42.5cm Sold for $ 6,700 IBP

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Soo Pieng Cheong

Soo Pieng Cheong

242

One of the leaders of Singaporean modern

works within the confines of the traditional

art, Soo Pieng Cheong has influenced a

Chinese ink colour scheme to present

generation of artists, both through his own

geometric houses in a landscape while lot

practice and over twenty years of teaching at

242 subverts the traditional use of black ink

the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. Cheong

by including vibrant colour to portray an

holds the honour of his famous work,

ideallic, fertile land.

Drying Salted Fish 1978, being featured on

Lesser known are Soo Pieng Cheong’s

the Singaporean fifty dollar note. Women

late 1960s and early 1970s works in which

with elongated limbs and almond shaped

the artist used found objects and metal to

eyes are distinctive characteristics of his

produce relief works (see lot 241). These

work and are common to Drying Salted Fish

relief works, which are rarely seen on the

and Two Women (lot 241).

auction market, feature a unique use of

Born and educated in China, Cheong moved

metal, hessian and tile. The figures here

to Singapore in 1945 and toured throughout

are represented in a domestic scene and

Southeast Asia and Europe. Inspired by

feature the relaxed elegance common to his

his extensive travel, Soo Pieng Cheong

representation of Southeast Asian women.

incorporated both Western abstract and

As Singaporean art historian T.K. Sabapathy

traditional Chinese ink and oil painting

notes, the artist ‘did not con¬fine him¬self to

techniques

from

the medium of paint¬ing; he also pro¬duced

Southeast Asia, hence the term Nanyang

sculp¬tures and sought to extend the

(directly translated to ‘South-Seas’) art. In

para¬met¬ers of paint¬ing, par-tic¬u¬larly

1952 he and three other Singaporean based

in rela¬tion to sur¬face and mater¬ial

Chinese artists travelled to Bali. This trip

prop¬er¬ties,

space,

was crucial to Soo Pieng Cheong’s practice

figure-ground

rela¬tion-ships,

and to the development of Singaporean

and narrative’.i His innovative talents are

art. Following this trip and throughout

evident in the three works offered in this

his career Cheong would return to the

auction, which have remained in a private

representation of the remote villages he

collection for over four decades.

to

represent

scenes

form,

tex¬tures, imagery

saw in Bali. In the two village scenes offered (lots 242 & 243) we see the convergence of

i T.K. Sabapathy, National Art Gallery, Singapore,

Western and Chinese art traditions with the

http://nationalartgallery.sg/exhibition-events/csp/the-

use of abstract gestures in ink, a medium

exhibition/highlights, accessed 22/2/13

central to Chinese scroll painting. Lot 243

AUCTION 19 MARCH AT 6:30Pm ONLINE bidding will be available for this auction

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A BOUTIQUE SINGLE OWNER estate

210 A FINE QUALITY VICTORIAN STERLING SILVER AND CRYSTAL CENTRE PIECE MAKER’S MARK WALTER AND JOHN BARNARD, LONDON CIRCA 1878 Sold for $10,370 IBP

A Boutique Single-Owner Estate RESULTS Categories both new and traditional were and furs discovered in a wardrobe prompted Barnard leading the results with a hammer clearance by lot. well represented in Leonard Joel’s first single heated

competition

amongst

bidders, price of $10,300 (IBP), closely followed by Selected jewellery from the collection will

owner auction for the year, when a boutique with only a few lots failing to find a home. an extensive Victorian Queen’s pattern silver be offered as a single owner component single owner collection was offered in an Highlights included a Louis Vuitton Evasion flatware service which realised $8,500 (IBP). of Leonard Joel’s March Fine Jewellery evening auction on Tuesday 5th February. monogrammed sports bag, which sold for While the category of collector’s cars is Auction. For enquiries about an appraisal Viewed in-situ at the late vendor’s Armadale $850 (IBP) and a full-length black and brown commonly known for being plagued by ‘tyre of your single owner collection or important property and dispersed to a packed saleroom panelled mink coat, which realised $1,100 kicking’ browsers, two bidders showed no individual item contact: at Leonard Joel’s South Yarra premises, (IBP).

such reserve in Tuesday night’s auction when

the collection included pre-owned luxury The recent surge in silver prices was a beautifully presented 1999 S-Type Jaguar Guy Cairnduff goods, traditional decorative arts, silver and reflected in the results realised for the fine sedan was competed to a hammer price of The Specialist Collector, Head of Department furniture and collector’s cars, offered the quality offering of English sterling silver in $14,600 (IBP), rounding out a thoroughly guy.cairnduff@leonardjoel.com.au / 0407 type of variety auctioneers dream of.

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A veritable gold mine of designer accessories and crystal centrepiece by Walter and John hammer price of $164,700 (IBP) and 89%

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A BOUTIQUE SINGLE OWNER estate

177 A VICTORIAN FOUR PIECE STERLING SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE, MAKER’S MARK WH LONDON 1841 - 1843 Sold for $3,904 IBP

214 A BURR WALNUT CANTEEN CONTAINING A COMPREHENSIVE STERLING SILVER QUEENS PATTERN FLATWARE SERVICE FOR EIGHTEEN 19TH CENTURY AND LATER Sold for $8,540 IBP

198 A LOUIS XVI STYLE BERGERE AND OTTOMAN WITH FAUX ZEBRA STRIPE UPHOLSTERY Sold for $3,904 IBP

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THE Mr joel barlow Collection

The MR Joel Barlow Collection UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE, QLD

190 A BANG & OLUFSEN ‘BEOVISION 4 85” BLACK TELEVISION, 2052 x 1244 x 122mm, TOTAL WEIGHT 144KG, COMPRISING SCREEN BEOVISION 4 85”, REMOTE CONTROL BEO 6 TOUCH SCREEN, FRONT SPEAKER BEOLAB 3 WALL MOUNTED AND CENTRE SPEAKER BEOLAB 7.6 WALL MOUNTED $25,000 - 35,000

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QLD AUCTION 10 MARCH AT 9Am

416 A BLACK FULL SIZE STALLION LAMP, DESIGNED BY FRONT SWEDEN FOR MOOOI. $3,000 - 5,000

The Mr Joel Barlow Collection Sunday 10 March 2013 at 9am

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PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION

“Shop here for value and friendly service”

Artist, illustrator, designer and photogra- Bar. The independent one stop shop with pher Eamon Donnelly is exhibiting a collec- everything you needed to live day to day. In tion of colourful and wonderfully nostalgic this constant changing world, the Milkbar photographic prints of Melbourne Milk represents an idealised image of the AusBar’s titled “Shop here for value and friendly tralia we used to know, the faded signage service” at Carbon Black Gallery, 188 High and empty corner shops still dotted around Street Prahran until March 10th. Donnelly our cities remind us of a simpler time, a time has been photographing Milkbars for the when you knew your fellow shopkeeper by past 5 years as a photographic record of the first name.” shops that are decayed, closed, barely surviving and fading away within Melbourne His devotion to documenting the fading and it’s surrounds. These images form an suburban icon has also seen him self pubarchive of the memories we all have of those lished a photographic book on the Australhot and sticky summer afternoon’s when you ian Milk Bar titled Milkbar: A Photographic rode your BMX up the melting bitumen to Archive Vol 1. released in October 2012. the corner shop, punched your way through The book has since been acquired by the the plastic fly door strips and demanded an State Library of Victoria and the Melbourne ice cream in exchange for your 40 cents in 1 Museum Library for thier collections and he and 2 cent coins.

is currently writing and photographing Aus-

Carbon Black Gallery 21st Feb – 10 March 188 High Street, Prahran

tralia’s first and foremost coffee table book “Long before the Americanised 24 hour on the Australian Milk Bar. ‘convenience’ stores and before the ‘Big Two’ overhauled how we buy our milk and http://carbonblackgallery.com.au/ bread with petrol, on nearly every third cor- http://eamondonnelly.com/ ner of the Australian suburbs lived the Milk http://www.islandcontinent.com.au/

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modern Design

MODERN DESIGN AUCTION THURSDAY 7 MARCH at 6.30pm

The first of Leonard Joel’s bi-annual Modern Design Auctions will take place on Thursday 7th March at 6.30pm. The auction will host a vast array of International and Australian art and design including furniture, decorative objects and electrical items.

Many items of great importance to Australian Design History will be on offer, such as a Walter Burley-Griffin chair designed in 1916, a desk designed by Grant Featherston for the Brighton Municipal Offices in 1959, and Clement Meadmore chairs. Other names rarely seen at auction but equally as important are Australian Designers George Korody, Paul Kafka, Fred Ward and Deborah Halpern.

42 WALTER DORWIN TEAGUE (1883-1960) A SPARTON BLUEBIRD WITH BASE United States, c.1936 tinted mirror, chrome, wood 36.5dia cm $ 4,500 - 5,500

International design highlights include furniture and lighting from Joe Colombo, a pair of Ernest Race Springbok chairs, a Bruno Gambone Vase, a collection of Venini glass and a Spartan 506 Bluebird Art Deco Radio.

21 A CHAISE LONGUE Norway, c.1980 leather, steel, wood 180l cm $2,000 - 2,500

The Modern Design Auction Thursday 7 March 2013, 6.30pm

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Preview Saturday 2 March 2013 10am – 4pm Sunday 3 March 2013 10am – 4pm Wednesday 6 March 2013 9am – 8pm

Enquiries Eoghan Doherty, Weekly Furniture Manager (03) 8825 5632 eoghan.doherty@leonardjoel.com.au

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CLASSIC FURNITURE & OBJECTS

A CHINESE RED LACQUER AND CARVED SIX PANEL SCREEN 20TH CENTURY $5,000 - 8,000

Classic FURNITURE & OBJECTS

Boris Lovet-Lorski (1894-1973) God Unknown Marble, ebonised wood $20,000 - 30,000

Entries Invited Classic Furniture & Objects Auction Tuesday 21 May 2013 Melbourne Now Consigning European and Australian Furniture; Porcelain; Silver; Clocks; Australian Decorative Arts; Asian Works of Art; Single Owner Collections Entries must close Friday 5 April 2013 Specialist enquiries contact Guy Cairnduff on 03 8825 5611

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