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posted 19 February 2022
Tim Stone, The Art Newspaper, 19 February 2022
After two years of remote work, National Australia Bank (NAB) staff have recently returned to bare office walls as the bank prepares to sell off its corporate art collection.
According to the bank’s chief operating officer, Les Matheson, the collection is no longer “core to our role as a bank”. And over the next 12 months NAB will divest its...
posted 16 February 2022
Gabriella Coslovich, Australian Financial Review, 16 February 2022
Two of the year’s most anticipated sales begin in Melbourne next week as the National Australia Bank's art collection goes under the hammer in the first of a series of auctions that will disperse more than 2000 artworks worth around $10 million.
posted 28 January 2022
Helen Trinca, The Australian, 28 January 2022
It reads like a list of the Greatest Hits of Australian art — from Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin to Sidney Nolan, Fred Williams, John Brack, Jeffrey Smart, Fred Williams, John Olsen, William Delafield Cook plus so many more in a collection of more than 2500 pieces up for grabs in arguably the biggest ever sale of Australian corporate art....
posted 22 December 2021
Kerrie O'Brien, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 December 2021
Landscape painter Arthur Streeton ruled Australian art auctions in 2021, commanding the highest price for the year and taking out four of the top 11 sales.
In a list dominated by dead, white, male artists, Streeton attracted a record-breaking $3 million for his work The Grand Canal (1908), which depicts Venice at the turn of the century and...
posted 17 December 2021
James Kirby, The Australian, 17 December 2021
Art investors have just racked up the best year since 2017 after a late rush in the auction rooms meant the sector could hold its own against bumper returns from shares and property.
Joanna Strumpf of Sydney Gallery Sullivan and Strumpf suggests: “It didn’t start very well but as the year went on we realised that closed international borders meant...
