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26/09/2024

PRIVATE SALE | CRESSIDA CAMPBELL

Smith & Singer are delighted to offer Cressida Campbell's Interior with Daffodils (2010) for Private Sale.

Cressida Campbell is widely acclaimed as one of Australia’s leading visual art practitioners whose work has been celebrated in recent exhibitions at the National Gallery of Australia and Geelong Gallery.

Interior with Daffodils represents one of Campbell’s distinct and particularly renowned subjects of an interior that blends art and architecture with the domestic and natural environment. The careful and deliberate placement of each object reflects the intellectual and aesthetic rigour the artist bestows upon her domain. An image of purity, simplicity, contemplation and reflection, Interior with Daffodils transcends its descriptive narrative and reveals Campbell’s remarkable ability to transform nature and the built environment into an expressive revelation.

For information, please contact: +61 (0)2 9302 2402 or [email protected]

Pictured
CRESSIDA CAMPBELL born 1960
Interior with Daffodils (2010)
watercolour on incised woodblock
39 x 22.5 cm
For Private Sale
© Cressida Campbell/Copyright Agency, 2024

Photos from Smith & Singer's post 20/09/2024

PRIVATE SALE | IMPORTANT JEWELS & WATCHES

Smith & Singer are pleased to offer three exceptional jewels for private sale – a magnificent 18ct white gold and diamond pendant necklace by Binder, a stunning Cartier Santos – Dumont 18ct gold wristwatch and a spectacular 18ct white gold, diamond and emerald necklace.

For information and price, please contact: [email protected] or +61 (0)2 9302 2402.

19/09/2024

PRIVATE SALE | JOHN PERCEVAL

Smith & Singer are delighted to offer John Perceval's Winkie Holding a Baby 1965 for private sale.

Winkie Holding a Baby was created during Perceval’s residency at the Australian National University and depicts the artist’s daughter Celia, affectionately called Winkie, cradling an infant child. She is seated in a cane chair that also resembles the wings of an angel that deftly blends Perceval’s iconography of the figure, landscape and his celebrated earthenware ‘Angel’ sculptures. The background depicts the rugged native landscape surrounding the nation’s capital city, where trees, shrubs and grass are blended to form a kaleidoscope of colour across the picture plane.

Perceval’s energetic and tactile technique – which at times included leaves and twigs swept up into the composition – resulted in a particular primacy and intimacy with his subject and an element of risk, which led fellow artist John Brack to comment that Perceval was an artist who ‘paints every picture as though it was his last.’

For information and price, please contact: [email protected] or +61 (0)2 9302 2402.

Pictured
JOHN PERCEVAL 1923-2000
Winkie Holding a Baby 1965
oil on canvas on board
61 x 50.8 cm
For Private Sale
© John Perceval/Copyright Agency, 2024

12/09/2024

PRIVATE SALE | Smith & Singer are delighted to offer Margaret Olley's Yellow Chrysanthemums (2011) for private sale.

During her long and productive career, Margaret Olley achieved distinction for still life subjects that transcend their genre and assume greater significance as broader celebrations of nature and humanity. Yellow Chrysanthemums provides a tableau of flowers, fruit and vessels arranged in a frieze-like procession. The palette of predominantly ochre, green and yellow hues, used to subtly render each familiar and utilitarian object, creates an overall feeling of warmth and tenderness as the artist lovingly transcribes the contents of her personal domestic environment.

For Olley, painting was the art of arrangement and constant re-arrangement to find balance, harmony, fulfilment, purpose and meaning. Yellow Chrysanthemums epitomises this desire and marks an opportunity to acquire a work from one of Australia's great painters.

For information and price, please contact: [email protected] or +61 (0)2 9302 2402.

Pictured
MARGARET OLLEY 1923-2011
Yellow Chrysanthemums (2011)
oil on board
61 x 61 cm
For Private Sale
© Reproduced with permission of the Margaret Olley Art Trust

10/09/2024

AUCTION TONIGHT | SYDNEY, 6:30PM
💎 IMPORTANT JEWELS & WATCHES 💎

Tonight Smith & Singer present a fantastic selection of fine jewels & watches, including this sensational signature piece by Cartier, an 18ct gold ‘Juste un Clou’ bracelet with diamonds (Lot 34, estimate $30,000 - $40,000).

Viewing continues until 2pm today head of the live auction in house this evening at 6:30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.

💻 📝 📞 To register to attend the auction in person, bid via telephone, absentee or online, please visit https://bit.ly/3SLwYW6.

📍 Sydney Viewing
Tuesday 10 September 2024, 10 am – 2 pm
30 Queen Street, Woollahra

📍 Auction in Sydney
Tuesday 10 September 2024 | 6.30 pm
Smith & Singer
30 Queen Street, Woollahra

03/09/2024

PRIVATE SALE | Smith & Singer are delighted to offer Albert Tucker's Explorer 1964 for private sale.

One of Albert Tucker’s best-known pictorial inventions is the profile image of the Antipodean/Explorer/Faun/Intruder. Explorer is one of Tucker’s finest evocations on the theme.
Here, the chiseled profile hewn from paint, forms a powerful statement on the extraordinary qualities found within ‘ordinary people’ – strength, resilience and endurance – characteristics that have been essential requirements for all Australians who have faced natural, social, political and economic challenges prior and following European settlement.

Resonating with power and beauty, Explorer celebrates Tucker’s highly personalised and idiosyncratic view of Australia, its land and its inhabitants. Unflinchingly critical, Tucker’s iconography remains empathetic to his fellow man and extols an underlying and unwavering commitment to the preservation of the Australian landscape.

For information and price, please contact: [email protected] or +61 (0)2 9302 2402.

ALBERT TUCKER 1914-1999
Explorer 1964
synthetic polymer paint on composition board
81.4 x 61 cm
For Private Sale
© Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundation. Courtesy of Smith & Singer Fine Art

02/09/2024

CATALOGUE ONLINE
AUCTION IN SYDNEY | 10 September 2024

💎 IMPORTANT JEWELS & WATCHES

The digital catalogue for the upcoming Important Jewels & Watches auction at Smith & Singer is available to view online by visiting https://bit.ly/3SLwYW6.

The September 2024 collection features a broad selection of coloured stones alongside a distinguished private collection of outstanding diamonds and iconic pieces by Bulgari, Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels. The sale concludes with a selection of watches by Franck Muller, Patek Philippe and Rolex.

A particular highlight of the collection is this magnificent 18ct white gold and diamond pendant necklace (Lot 76, estimate $80,000–100,000, pictured).

🗓 The pre-auction viewing continues in Sydney this weekend at 30 Queen Street, Woollahra:

Saturday 7 – Monday 9 September, 10 am – 5 pm
Tuesday 10 September, 10 am – 2 pm

📍 Auction, Tuesday 10 September 2024, in Sydney

30/08/2024

EXHIBITION IN MELBOURNE | 30 AUGUST – 1 SEPTEMBER 2024

Important Jewels & Watches

The Melbourne exhibition for the forthcoming Important Jewels & Watches auction is open to the public from today, Friday 30 August to Sunday 1 September, from 10 am – 5 pm, daily at 14-16 Collins Street, Melbourne.

The September 2024 sale features a broad selection of coloured stones alongside a distinguished private collection of outstanding diamonds and iconic pieces by Bulgari, Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels. The sale concludes with a selection of watches by Franck Muller, Patek Philippe and Rolex.

A particular highlight of the sale is this spectacular 18ct bi-colour gold, emerald and diamond ring (Lot 59, estimate $60,000–70,000, pictured above).

🔗 To explore the catalogue online, please visit https://bit.ly/3SLwYW6.

📍 Auction, Tuesday 10 September 2024, in Sydney

🗓 VIEWINGS

MELBOURNE
Friday 30 August – Sunday 1 September,
10am – 5pm
14 – 16 Collins Street, Melbourne

SYDNEY
Saturday 7 – Monday 9 September,
10 am – 5 pm
Tuesday 10 September, 10 am – 2 pm

30/08/2024

PRIVATE SALE | Smith & Singer are delighted to offer Eugene von Guérard's From Our Apartment in Collins Street, Melbourne 1854 for private sale.

From Our Apartment in Collins Street, Melbourne offers a remarkable document of the early settlement of Melbourne. Although it was the artist’s usual practice to make detailed drawings of his painted subjects, no related images exist in his surviving sketchbooks. There can be no doubt, however, that it is a faithful and accurate record of the topography of the fledgling city of Melbourne from a carefully chosen vantage point that panoramically captures the unique and picturesque scene.

A rare scene depicting the early origins of the burgeoning metropolis of Melbourne, From Our Apartment in Collins Street, Melbourne epitomises the brilliance of Eugene von Guérard, who established himself as the most significant Australian artist of his generation and whose legacy remains vital to our history and understanding of the nineteenth century.

We are delighted to offer this revered composition from the prominent collection of Graham Joel, whose contribution to the Australian art and auction industry over many decades continues to influence and inspire.

For information and price, please contact: [email protected] or +61 (0)2 9302 2402.

EUGENE VON GUÉRARD 1811-1901
From Our Apartment in Collins Street, Melbourne 1854
oil on card on board
15.7 x 25.2 cm
For Private Sale

28/08/2024

CATALOGUE ONLINE
AUCTION IN SYDNEY | 10 September 2024

💎 IMPORTANT JEWELS & WATCHES

The digital catalogue for the upcoming Important Jewels & Watches auction at Smith & Singer is now available to view online.

The auction features this sensational pair of platinum and diamond earrings, with claw-set Asscher-cut diamonds, each weighing 4.55 and 4.50 carats.

See these and the rest of the collection online by visiting https://bit.ly/3SLwYW6.

📍 Auction, Tuesday 10 September 2024, in Sydney

🗓️ VIEWINGS

MELBOURNE
Friday 30 August – Sunday 1 September,
10am – 5pm
14 – 16 Collins Street, Melbourne

SYDNEY
Saturday 7 – Monday 9 September,
10 am – 5 pm
Tuesday 10 September, 10 am – 2 pm

27/08/2024

PRIVATE SALE | Smith & Singer are delighted to offer Fred Williams’ magnificent Wattles (1977) for private sale.

Wattles offers a summation of Williams’ remarkable career to date. Here, the artist combines his distinct straight, high horizon line, with clearly outlined tree trunks rising from a ground of irregular, subtly modulated patches. The steep road is pushed to the left-hand side of the picture plane, and the dark patches suggestive of water ponds are placed at the very bottom of the canvas, almost submerged by the expansive landscape above. Overall, Williams has exaggerated his own compositional inventions, perhaps inspired by his recent visit to China and the flattened and reductive perspectives found in scroll paintings.

The focus of Wattles is the presence of two acacia saplings placed in the centre of the composition that appear both in confrontation and dialogue with their spare surroundings. Typically Williamsesque in its simultaneous richness and restraint, this handsome, fractured landscape is also a pointer to contemporary and later paintings, including the artist’s ground-breaking Pilbara series.

Bearing a particularly distinguished provenance from collection of the late Sir James D. Wolfensohn KBE AO, Wattles celebrates the achievements of one of Australia’s most innovative, influential and celebrated artists of the twentieth century.

For information and price, please contact: [email protected] or +61 (0)2 9302 2402.

FRED WILLIAMS 1927-1982
Wattles (1977)
oil on canvas
96.1 x 106.5 cm
For Private Sale
© Estate of Fred Williams/Copyright Agency, 2024

21/08/2024

AUCTION TONIGHT
Important Australian Art

The exhibition will be on view in Sydney today, Wednesday 21 August, 10 am to 5 pm, at 30 Queen Street, Woollahra.

Among the highlights of the sale is Sydney Nolan’s magnificent Ned Kelly: Crossing Bridge 1964 (Lot 21, estimate $1,000,000–1,500,000, pictured).

The superlative Ned Kelly: Crossing Bridge belongs to a group of large-scale compositions that Nolan produced between October and December 1964 and remains one of the most satisfying and lyrical images of the outlaw firmly located within the Australian landscape. Recently repatriated to Australia from a distinguished international collection, we are honoured to offer Ned Kelly: Crossing Bridge for public auction, an iconic and enduring image within the most renowned series of twentieth century Australian art.

💻 📝 📞 To register to attend the auction in person, bid via telephone, absentee or online, please visit https://bit.ly/4dtJJN7.

The auction will be held at the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia, 111 Queen Street, Woollahra at 6.30 pm tonight, Wednesday 21 August 2024.

Pictured
SIDNEY NOLAN 1917-1992
Ned Kelly: Crossing Bridge 1964
oil on composition board
122 x 152.8 cm
Estimate $1,000,000–1,500,000
© The Sidney Nolan Trust. All rights reserved,
DACS/Copyright Agency, 2024

18/08/2024

SYDNEY EXHIBITION CONTINUES
Important Australian Art

The exhibition continues in Sydney today through to Wednesday, 10 am to 5 pm daily, at 30 Queen Street, Woollahra.

Among the highlights of the sale are works from the collection of Sir James D. Wolfensohn KBE AO, featuring Arthur Boyd's stunning Colonial Poet Under Orange Tree (1979) (Lot 1, estimate $250,000–350,000, pictured left) and Orange Tree, Book and Bound Figure (1979) (Lot 2, estimate $200,000–300,000, pictured right).

Boyd’s extraordinary Colonial Poet Under Orange Tree and Orange Tree, Book and Bound Figure (1979) merge the past with the present, history with myth, allegory with reality, as the artist tackles the brutal, complex and violent aspects of Australia’s colonial past. At the core of each composition European ignorance and destruction is symbolised by the solitary tree, a direct reference to the lone gum tree in Charles Conder’s Under a Southern Sun (1890, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra) and Arthur Streeton’s Australia (more commonly known as The Selector’s Hut: Whelan on the Log) (1890, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra). In Boyd’s case, the orange tree represents the ‘foreign’ replacement, symbolic in its incongruousness – unsuitability and inappropriateness – for the Australian natural wilderness.

Visit our Woollahra gallery for your chance to view these stunning works.

🔗 To explore the catalogue online, visit https://bit.ly/4dtJJN7.

🗓 Sydney Preview Exhibition
Sunday 18 August to Wednesday 21 August, 10 am – 5 pm
30 Queen Street, Woollahra, NSW

📍 Auction, Wednesday 21 August 2024 in Sydney

Pictured left
ARTHUR BOYD 1920-1999
Colonial Poet Under Orange Tree (1979)
oil on canvas
152.5 x 122 cm
Estimate $250,000–350,000
Pictured right
ARTHUR BOYD 1920-1999
Orange Tree, Book and Bound Figure (1979)
oil on canvas
152.5 x 122.5 cm
Estimate $200,000–300,000
© Arthur Boyd/Copyright Agency, 2024

07/08/2024

EXHIBITION IN MELBOURNE | 7 – 11 AUGUST 2024

IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN ART

The exhibition will be on view in Melbourne from today 7 August – Sunday 11 August, 10 am to 5 pm, at 14-16 Collins Street.

Among the highlights of the sale is Nicholas Chevalier's spectacular Lake Colac and the Warrior's Hill, from Corangamorah 1863 (Lot 10, estimate $800,000–1,200,000, pictured).

We are particularly honoured to offer Nicholas Chevalier’s masterpiece Lake Colac and the Warrior’s Hill, from Corangamorah for auction for the first time. The painting formed a cornerstone of The Graham Joel Collection and was reproduced on the cover of the catalogue and associated exhibition presented in 2013. An image of great beauty and historical significance, Lake Colac and the Warrior’s Hill, from Corangamorah represents a defining moment in Chevalier’s career and within the history and development of Australian art.

The sale also includes Important Australian Art from The Collection of Sir James D. Wolfensohn KBE AO featuring six outstanding paintings by Arthur Boyd and Fred Williams.

🔗 To explore the catalogue online, visit https://bit.ly/4dtJJN7.

📍 Auction, Wednesday 21 August 2024 in Sydney

🗓 VIEWINGS

MELBOURNE
Wednesday 7 August – Sunday 11 August, 10 am – 5 pm
14-16 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC

SYDNEY
Thursday 15 August – Wednesday 21 August, 10 am – 5 pm
30 Queen Street, Woollahra, NSW

Pictured
NICHOLAS CHEVALIER 1828-1902
Lake Colac and the Warrior's Hill, from Corangamorah 1863
oil on canvas
79 x 123 cm
frame: original, maker unknown, Melbourne
Estimate $800,000–1,200,000

22/05/2024

Catalogue Online – MAPh X Artist Photography Auction

Smith & Singer are honoured to continue to support MAPh in their ongoing mission to celebrate Australian photography.

The Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) has again joined forces with Australian artists to create a unique auction fundraiser where the artists will share equally in the sale proceeds for their work, allowing buyers to directly impact artists and their practice.

MAPh X Artist Photography Auction
Thursday 6 June 2024
James Makin Gallery
89 Islington Street, Collingwood VIC 3066
Doors open 6pm for 7pm auction
Drinks and canapés will be served on arrival

This year MAPh has gathered a stunning and unique selection of photographic works by leading contemporary Australian artists including: Tamara Dean, Murray Fredericks, Petrina Hicks, The Huxleys, Anne Zahalka, and further renowned practitioners.

🔗 To preview the auction catalogue online and book your tickets, please visit: https://bit.ly/3WTRIxI.

Pictured (Lot 17)
PETRINA HICKS born 1972
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 2016
framed archival inkjet print, edition 6 of 8, plus 2 artist's proofs
77 x 100 cm
Estimate $7,500–9,000
© Courtesy of the artist and Michael Reid Galleries (Sydney + Berlin)

07/05/2024

AUCTION TONIGHT
💎 IMPORTANT JEWELS & WATCHES 💎

The Sydney exhibition will continue until 2 pm this afternoon at Smith & Singer, 30 Queen Street, Woollahra.

The auction will commence at 6.30 pm tonight at Smith & Singer, 30 Queen Street, Woollahra.

A particular highlight of the Collection is this stunning pair of 18ct white gold, diamond, emerald and onyx 'Panthère de Cartier' earrings, Cartier, 2004 (lot 49, estimate $55,000–75,000, pictured).

💻 📝 📞 To register to attend the auction in person, bid via telephone, absentee or online, please visit: https://bit.ly/3Ur5PsL.

Auction in Sydney
7 May 2024 L 6.30 Pm
Smith & Singer
30 Queen Street, Woollahra

SYDNEY VIEWING
Today, Tuesday 7 May, 10 am – 2 pm
30 Queen Street, Woollahra

03/05/2024

PRIVATE SALE | Smith & Singer are delighted to offer William Robinson's Nimbin Rocks with Distant Storm 2003 for private sale.

Nimbin Rocks with Distant Storm is a grand, imposing, and inspiring example of Robinson’s complex compositions of the late 1990s and early 2000s. With its rotating jigsaw of close foreground and far distance, of lateral and vertical perspectives, of dark and light, it epitomises the artist’s unique vision of the Australian landscape.

Robinson developed this way of looking at the landscape from the late 1980s, following his move to Beechmont in the Darlington Range, Queensland, on the edge of the tropical rainforest. Its first and most celebrated full manifestation came in the ‘Creation Landscapes’ of 1988-1991: twisted, writhing, vertiginous fish-eye pictures in which thick-boled, tiny-crowned trees reach up through mountainsides and shafts of light to a cloud-filled or starry lake of sky. Further explored and consolidated in the different terrains of Springbrook and of the coast and ocean at Kingscliff, this new approach brought the artist great critical and commercial success, culminating in the Queensland Art Gallery retrospective Darkness and Light: The Art of William Robinson in 2001.

It is Robinson’s great ability to meld his liberal sense of the sublime to the seen, walked, breathed and felt reality of the rainforest, that makes his work so compelling, and through which he earns his place as inheritor and standard-bearer of the great Australian landscape tradition.

Nimbin Rocks with Distant Storm is a particularly fine example of his major compositions from this crucial period in his career.

For information and price, please contact: [email protected] or +61 (0)2 9302 2402.

WILLIAM ROBINSON born 1936
Nimbin Rocks with Distant Storm 2003
oil on canvas
122 x 183 cm
For Private Sale

© William Robinson

30/04/2024

PRIVATE SALE | Smith & Singer are delighted to offer William Dobell's exceptional The Chamber Maid (1937) for private sale.

Dobell’s The Chamber Maid is one of his rare, jewel-like compositions, created in London during the 1930s that established his reputation as an insightful observer of the mundane rituals and realities of everyday living as well as the theatrical and lively in*******se of social events and occasions.

Despite its relatively modest scale, The Chamber Maid offers a detailed and empathetic study of a subject that extolls respect and dignity. Much of the drawing is simply scratched into the wet paint with the handle of a brush, but all the wispy tiredness and frailty has been accurately noted and set down. The way in which it is actually painted adds to our understanding of the character.

The Chamber Maid was extensively published during Dobell’s lifetime and requested for loan for every major exhibition on the artist in Australia and overseas. Since 1970 the painting has remained largely hidden from view until now, re-emerging for the first time. We are particularly honoured to be entrusted with the sale of this rare and historic composition by one of Australia’s most celebrated artists.

For information and price, please contact: [email protected] or +61 (0)2 9302 2402.

WILLIAM DOBELL 1899-1970
The Chamber Maid (1937)
oil on wood
29 x 35 cm
For Private Sale
© William Dobell/Copyright Agency, 2024

30/04/2024

Private Auction | Del Kathryn Barton – Sydney Exhibition Continues

Smith & Singer are honoured to present Del Kathryn Barton’s exceptional masterpiece Satellite Fade-Out 2011 for private auction at 6.30 pm AEST, Wednesday 1 May 2024.

Del Kathryn Barton is one of Australia’s most renowned contemporary artists who has worked across a broad spectrum of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, film and fashion. Barton’s work is immediately recognisable, singular and expressive, and her appeal to collectors and curators is far-reaching. Satellite Fade-Out exemplifies Barton’s ability to successfully fuse influences from the past and present to create an image that is simultaneously personal and universal.

Satellite Fade-Out is available to view in Sydney from Monday 29 April – Wednesday 1 May 2024, 10 am to 5 pm at 30 Queen Street, Woollahra.

To arrange a private viewing, or to register to bid now, follow link in bio.

DEL KATHRYN BARTON born 1972
Satellite Fade-Out 2011
synthetic polymer paint, gouache,
watercolour and ink on polyester canvas
163 x 143 cm
Estimate $160,000–180,000

© Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

23/04/2024

Important Australian Art for Private Sale

PRIVATE SALE | Smith & Singer are delighted to offer Brett Whiteley's Study for Portrait of Wendy I 1985 for private sale.

Study for Portrait of Wendy I exemplifies Whiteley’s admiration for Henri Matisse as well as his idolisation of his soul-mate-muse-wife, Wendy. This large, powerful composition – literally depicting art as and in an armchair – offers extreme sensuality in its graphic harmony of sweeping curves of calves, thigh, buttock, belly, breasts, shoulder, arm, head and hair. The insistent, fleshily solidified s*xual energy of the model’s body resonates powerfully across the negative space of the pale background.

A refined, sinewy, elegant monument to the female form, Study for Portrait of Wendy I epitomises Whiteley’s life-long pursuit of ‘this glimpse of beauty, where invention and skin become one, and the history of art marries the whole history of one’s s*x. Whiteley traces a tension between the Apollonian and the Dionysian.

For information and price, please contact: [email protected] or +61 (0)2 9302 2402.

BRETT WHITELEY 1939-1992
Study for Portrait of Wendy I 1985
charcoal on paper on board
177 x 152.4 cm
For private sale
© Wendy Whiteley/Copyright Agency, 2024

Painting of Sydney Harbour by impressionist Arthur Streeton sells for $1.875m 18/04/2024

Smith & Singer In The News
Newshttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/17/painting-of-sydney-harbour-by-impressionist-arthur-streeton-sells-for-1875m

Painting of Sydney Harbour by impressionist Arthur Streeton sells for $1.875m The celebrated Australian artist’s Sunlight at the Camp, which was not seen in public for 130 years, surpasses expectations

03/04/2024

Smith & Singer In the News:
The Guardian 'Arthur Streeton painting of Sydney Harbour shown in public for first time in 130 years.'
To read the full article, visit: https://bit.ly/3J10GRE
📷 Geoffrey Smith, chairman of Smith & Singer auction house, with Streeton’s 1894 painting. It will be on display at their Melbourne and Sydney premises before being auctioned on 17 April in Sydney. Photograph: James Ross/AAP

06/03/2024

Important Australian Art for Private Sale

PRIVATE SALE | Smith & Singer are delighted to offer Criss Canning’s recent composition, Still Life with Peony Flower 2023, for private sale.

Canning has enjoyed an extensive career as an artist, establishing a unique and distinguished contemporary style within a sharp modernist framework, whilst integrating traditional and contemporary references and techniques.

Driven by the enduring pursuit of beauty through the creation of art, Canning’s distinctive eye resonates through her work, from the tranquil precision of her compositions to the elegant lines of her subjects. Canning’s works are held in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat; Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine; Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns; Artbank, Melbourne; and private collections in Australia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, United Kingdom, and the United States of America.

Evoking a brilliant synthesis of the constructed world and the art of arrangement and constant re-arrangement, Still Life with Peony Flower is a shining example of Criss Canning’s practice.

For information and price, please contact: [email protected] or +61 (0)3 9508 9900.

Pictured
CRISS CANNING born 1947
Still Life with Peony Flower 2023
oil on board
35 x 50 cm
Price on Application

© Criss Canning/Copyright Agency, 2024

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