AUSTRALIAN FINE ART & MASTERPIECES OF AUSTRALIAN ART FROM THE JULIAN & MIRIAM STERLING COLLECTION
TUESDAY 26 AUGUST, MELBOURNE
A celebrated Melbourne collection of iconic Australian paintings is set to be one of the highlights of the coming winter auction season. Retired veteran Melbourne dealer Julian Sterling and his wife Miriam have consigned their celebrated private collection of six major pictures to the August 26 Fine Art sale at Bonhams & Goodman. The collection includes John Russell's Belle Ile en Mer, one of this country's most famous impressionist paintings.
In 1886 the young Australian expatriate, John Russell, was sketching on the craggy cliffs of a remote French island when he came across an older artist hard at work. Immediately recognising his style he asked, "Ne seriez vous Claude Monet, le prince des impressionists?" [Are you Claude Monet, the Prince of the Impressionists?]. Flattered and amused by this approach, Monet allowed the young artist to paint with him. Monet was preparing for the exhibition of his remarkable series of paintings of the rocks and sea at Belle-Ile, astounding the Parisian artworld when he first showed them the following year. John Russell left the security of Paris to become the first foreigner to settle on Belle-Ile, building a fabulous manor house which evolved into an artist's "summer camp" where he played host to Auguste Rodin and Henri Matisse, whom Russell is said to have mentored. 116 years later, one of Australia's premier museums, Art Gallery of New South Wales, launched the blockbuster exhibition, Belle-Ile: Monet, Russell & Matisse in Brittany, where Russell was referred to as the "lost Impressionist".
FINE JEWELLERY AUCTION, MONDAY 25 AUGUST, MELBOURNE
VIEWING IN SYDNEY THIS WEEKEND
The Fine Jewellery Auction, to be conducted in the Melbourne rooms on Monday 25 August at 6pm, will be on view in Sydney this weekend - Friday 15, Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 August from 10am to 5pm daily at 7 Anderson Street, Double Bay.
Sale highlights include fine antique jewellery; a gem quality South Sea pearl necklace; a modern diamond necklace set with 14 brilliant cut diamonds totalling 16.12 ct; fine quality contemporary emerald, ruby, sapphire and diamond jewellery; and wristwatches including a Jaeger Le Coultre "Reverso", and a Gentleman's Omega Co-Axial.
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Illustrated:
A 10.13 carat solitaire diamond ring
Estimate: $100,000 - 140,000
Enquiries:
Patricia Sedgwick
+61 (0)411 412 364 or patti.sedgwick@bonhams.com
ENTRIES INVITED
FINE FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS, NOVEMBER, SYDNEY
Entries for the November auction of Fine Furniture & Decorative Arts close on 19 September. Contact us now for an obligation-free auction appraisal.
James Hendy
National Head of decorative Arts
(02) 8306 2209
james.hendy@bonhams.com
For information about the Decorative Arts Department, click here
Illustrated:
A fine Charles II japanned cabinet on stand, circa 1670
Estimate: $40,000 - 60,000
Current Auctions
- Fine Jewellery, Melbourne
25 Aug 2008
Level 1, 540 Malvern Road, Prahran, Melbourne, VIC - Decorative Arts, Adelaide
25 Aug 2008
444-446 Pulteney Street, Adelaide, SA - Australian Fine Art & Masterpieces of Australian Art from The Julian & Miriam Sterling Collection
26 Aug 2008
Level 1, 540 Malvern Road, Prahran, Melbourne, VIC - Bay East Antiques & Interiors
14 Sep 2008
224 Young Street, Waterloo, Sydney, NSW - Collectors' Cars - Nelson New Zealand
14 Sep 2008
95 Quarantine Road,, Annesbrook,, Nelson - Bay East Art
21 Sep 2008
224 Young Street, Waterloo, Sydney, NSW - Fine Jewellery, Sydney
22 Sep 2008
7 Anderson Street, Double Bay, Sydney, NSW
Announcements
- AUSTRALIAN FINE ART & MASTERPIECES OF AUSTRALIAN ART FROM THE JULIAN & MIRIAM STERLING COLLECTION
Posted 31 July 2008 - FINE JEWELLERY AUCTION, MONDAY 25 AUGUST, MELBOURNE
Posted 12 August 2008 - ENTRIES INVITED
Posted 5 August 2008 - BAY EAST BOOKS TO GO UNDER THE HAMMER TODAY
Posted 11 August 2008 - FIRST AUSTRALIAN DELIVERED BENTLEY AND LEX DAVISON'S ALFA ROMEO
Posted 8 August 2008