The sale at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (plus 21% buyer’s premium) on January 29 – an event dominated […]
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A total of 18 phones competed for a rare devotional painting offered by a New York institution at […]
A trio of tickets issued by one of the UK’s first passenger railways sold for £1050 at a […]
What seems to have been an overdue clear-out at Monmouth Trading Standards department led to half a dozen […]
Albert Namatjira was the most celebrated Indigenous Australian of his time because he was a founder and brain behind the modern Aboriginal Australian art. Albert Namatjira was prominent for his representation of the Australian bush. He grew up in a mission very far away from his family. During that time, he normally sneaked out from the precincts of the mission to survey the Australian bush. He was familiar with the western technique of painting. With this nurtured artistic aesthetics in him, he drew the panoramic beauty of the bush in his free time. Some of the works of this legend are now on display in a number of major galleries in Australia.
Following the fall of Louis-Philippe in the 1848 revolution, the French royal sculptor Henri Joseph Francois, Baron de […]
This early 18th century Louis XIV French table clock is part of a selection of 19 early European […]
On April 9 Christie’s will be holding a Pre-Columbian sale featuring the 90-lot collection formed by Felix and […]
Paris is a centre for auctions of Pre-Columbian art. On March 18 Copages is offering an Italian collection […]
The Hermannsburg Mission was established by Louis Harms on 12 October 1849. It’s an establishment acknowledged by the state church. It was the last and longest-running Mission controlled by the Lutheran Church in Australia. The missionaries on the ground were educated on how to speak the Arrente language to make sure what they taught were understood. The Hermannsburg Mission celebrated its 140th anniversary in the 500th year of the Lutheran Church in 2017, and it carries on with the custom of doing open-air bush camps with aboriginal pastors. The Hermannsburg mission still manages a mission seminary in Hermannsburg, where young theologians are normally equipped service in one of the ELM partner churches till today.
A small group of lots in a recent Edinburgh sale were once part of the library of the […]
Sold for £900 by Toovey’s (24.5% buyer’s premium) on February 19 was an elaborately bound example of Monsieur […]
Swann Auction Galleries is to sell a major selection of German Expressionist works from one of the movement’s […]
A total of 18 phones competed for a rare devotional painting offered by a New York institution at […]
A quintessential pointillist painting of the sun setting over the port of Saint Tropez made an auction record […]
The best Egyptian antiquities now engender much more than mere scholastic fervour but, for the most part, humbler […]
David Bromley was born in England but he and his family emigrated to Australia and settled in Adelaide. He dropped out of school after suffering from phobias at age 14. His demons saw him spiral into a period of instability and had no direction in his life. However, he took up pottery and it developed into painting. Regular solo and group exhibitions throughout major cities in Australia followed. Bromley was a finalist for the coveted Archibald Prize for a few times. He is also known for painting surfboards and for his sculptures. Although, he had been criticised for his ‘pop-art commercialism’. Despite some critical disdain of his work, he can currently be seen in various prestigious galleries.
The owner of a handwritten page from Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’ has been temporarily prevented […]