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February 9, 2016 / February 10, 2016 by Blanka Nemeth
Leonard Joel Auctioneers and Valuers are thrilled to present The Contents of 834 High Street, Thornbury: Melbourne’s Secret Collection of Mid-Century Design. The expansive double shop front of the former Brooks & Co. Furniture building at 834 High Street, Thornbury, in Melbourne’s inner-North, has long been the subject of speculation and intrigue. The doors to the shop have remained firmly […]
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February 8, 2016 / February 8, 2016 by Blanka Nemeth
Betty and Dowell Hardwick moved forty years ago to 2 Shoreham Rd Shoreham, which was originally one of the oldest houses in Shoreham, settled by the pioneering Kennedy family in the 1860s. Having spent many enjoyable times at Balnarring with their family for school holidays since the 1950s, they looked forward to moving permanently to […]
Leonard Joel is pleased to announce the upcoming auction of rediscovered works from the Studio of Anne Hall. Auction | Thursday 3 March at 6pm AEDT Viewing | Wednesday 2 March 9am-8pm | Thursday 3 March 10am-4pm Olivia Fuller | Art Specialist | 03 8825 5624 | email Catalogue online Monday 15 February
January 13, 2016 / February 2, 2016 by Blanka Nemeth
Emily Simms has decided to sell her glorious diamond bracelet that she was gifted by Sam Wood from Network TEN’s season 3 of The Bachelor. The diamond bracelet is comprised of five hundred round brilliant cut diamonds in a white gold setting. Part of the proceeds are going towards a charity named Bully Zero, […]
December 18, 2015 / December 18, 2015 by Blanka Nemeth
John is widely known for his philanthropy and has enabled many charitable events to be held in the famed gardens. The gardens and all buildings on the property have been heritage listed by the ACT Heritage Council. Reflecting the charitable spirit of the property and John the four day auction period will feature many charitable […]
December 16, 2015 / December 16, 2015 by Blanka Nemeth
December 16, 2015 / December 17, 2015 by Blanka Nemeth
From complex antique musical clocks to luxurious international jewels, this year at auction witnessed the continued rise of The New Collector, as new collecting passions jostle for attention amongst categories hundreds of years old. John Albrecht Managing Director & National Head of Collections An Important Emerald & Diamond Suite Sold for $366,000 IBP Jacob Marrel, […]
September 30, 2015 / September 30, 2015 by Blanka Nemeth
Strolling around a home filled with paintings and porcelain, prints of 20th-century Masters and flea market finds, Kay Lanceley picks up one of the treasures collected during her life. It is a photograph of her artist husband Colin, hair tousled and smiling, taken by Max Dupain around 1990. “He and Colin actually swapped so Colin gave him a […]
September 21, 2015 / September 28, 2015 by Blanka Nemeth
For more than 30 years he amassed a collection of elephants across every imaginable medium, period and region. The sale of 333 lots, many made up of group lots, presented more than a thousand items almost exclusively elephant and related themes. Bob White was a joyful collector unrestricted by stuffiness or concern for what others thought […]
August 31, 2015 / September 28, 2015 by Blanka Nemeth
Continuing the erotica theme, lot 272, a beautifully enamelled continental silver cigarette case depicting a classically posed nude female and retailed by the pre-Castro Cuban establishment La Casa Quintana, realised $6,100 (IBP). But erotica was not the only adventurous auction theme. The fine jewels on offer also reflected a far more adventurous appetite with bold […]
August 7, 2015 / August 27, 2015 by Blanka Nemeth
When Wednesday 26 August at 6pm Where Hawksburn Room, Leonard Joel Enquiries 03 8825 5624 olivia.fuller@leonardjoel.com.au
July 30, 2015 / August 25, 2015 by Blanka Nemeth
Photographs from this collection were originally debuted at Strange Neighbour gallery in the Juvenilia exhibition curated by Helen Frajman and Linsey Gosper. Starting in 1976 when Milne was 16 and photographing school friends Gina Riley and Rowland S Howard, through to images of the legendary band, the Boys Next Door lounging in Nick Cave’s bedroom in his parents’ […]
Inspired by the ‘east meets west’ evolution of the silk road trade, this petite yet eclectic offering will include fine European antiques and provincial furnishings, including French bergeres and dining chairs, refectory tables, Indian dhurrie upholstered ottomans, suzani throws, and kilims. Pressed silvered metal mirrors will also feature, along with an impressive ‘Hollywood’ wall mirror with simulated rock crystal […]
Enquiries: Bethany McGougan 03 8825 5625 bethany.mcgougan@leonardjoel.com.au Illustrated: Label reads Pietro Messori Modena, 1947 Sold for $6,100 (IBP)
With an Australian auction record for a Robert Prenzel faunal panel achieved already this year ($66,000 including buyer’s premium), we look forward to meeting some of the Australiana collectors amongst our clients and giving confidential appraisals and advice on the sale of your individual Australiana object or collection. To book a confidential appraisal, email chiara.curcio@leonardjoel.com.au or call 03 8825 5635 […]
In particular, we were delighted to secure this spectacular museum quality Japanese Arita ware ‘kraak’ dish, with V.O.C (Dutch East India Company) insignia. Dating from around 1680 and featuring a vivid underglaze blue design, it is extraordinary to uncover such a rare, surviving example of wares directly associated with one of the colonial monoliths of trade in the Far East. […]
July 17, 2015 / August 25, 2015 by Blanka Nemeth
Auction Thursday 6 August at 2pm Viewing Wednesday 5 August 9am-8pm Enquiries: Bethany McGougan | 03 8825 5625 | bethany.mcgougan@leonardjoel.com.au
July 2, 2015 / August 25, 2015 by Blanka Nemeth
Cox was an important colonial era grazier and livestock and racing breeder of international renown and the six images were in many ways rare snapshots of the period. Of equal excitement was a superb Heidelberg school painting by Walter Withers. The Trysting Place, as it was known, had remained undiscovered for 125 years as it moved through generations of the one family. Unsigned, it was […]
June 18, 2015 / August 25, 2015 by Blanka Nemeth
For all enquiries contact: Sophie Ullin t: 03 8825 5609 m: 0413 912 307 e: sophie.ullin@leonardjoel.com.au
June 2, 2015 / August 25, 2015 by Blanka Nemeth
These models, designed not only to educate but also showcase the capacity of these industrialised regions, became works of art in themselves and would regularly be exhibited at competitive fairs and international gatherings of like-minded engineers and businesses. At our Classic Furniture and Objects auction on Saturday we were honoured to offer just such a […]
With well over 800 lots on offer attendees at the auction could be forgiven for thinking that they had entered a treasure laden room from the colonial period but in reality what they enjoyed was the result of passionate and educated collecting that found its base in Melbourne. The auction was carefully curated by Chiara […]
May 24, 2015 / August 25, 2015 by Blanka Nemeth
The cover lot, a rare six armed Bulmo Buddha lot 151, sold for more than four times its estimate and realised $31,720 (IBP). The only 11cm high piece emanated from the Siegfried Hearst estate and had been held in that collection for more than half a century. As the auction progressed it was clear that […]
May 11, 2015 / August 25, 2015 by Blanka Nemeth
The second is the assistance I provided a client to transact two works by a contemporary Chinese artist in Hong Kong in recent years – the works returned an approximately 800% profit – yes that’s 800%! I told him at the time that this windfall was, I believed, the greatest I would witness in my […]
April 13, 2015 / August 25, 2015 by Blanka Nemeth
Initially working in the German Renaissance Revival style favoured in his homeland, from 1901 the characteristics of Prenzel’s work evolved into what was colloquially known as ‘Gum Nut Art Nouveau,’ distinguished by the combination of Australian floral and faunal motifs with the whiplash lines and stylized naturalism of Art Nouveau, which was gathering pace as […]
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