He’s a very serious collector,” Mr Klingender said. But staff know not to crowd the Hollywood comedian. Actor and avid Aboriginal art collector Steve Martin always drops in at the pre-auction viewings in New York, Sotheby’s senior advisor on Australian art Tim Klingender told Saleroom. Sotheby’s staff will have a keen eye out for a distinctive figure arriving on a bicycle. Watukarrinya is from the estate of Eve Norton McGlashan, whose husband David McGlashan’s architectural firm designed Heide II, the 1968 modernist home of John and Sunday Reed in Melbourne.
Watukarrinya (Two Kangaroo Dreaming), 1987, by Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, carries an estimate of $US30,000 to $US50,000 in Sotheby’s Aboriginal Art auction, in New York. Already the hammer has fallen on some dizzying prices – $US67 million for Jean-Michel Basquiat’s El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile) $US43.5 million for Henri Rousseau’s Les Flamants, and $US34.6 million for Francis Bacon’s Self-Portrait, among many more.Īmid all this international glamour, Australia will command its own small but significant stage when Sotheby’s New York presents its annual Aboriginal Art auction on May 23. Will the earl lower himself for cold, hard cash? Will the lovely Gillian settle for a loveless marriage of convenience? The sex gets hot and heavy before the final answer in this delightful read.It’s spring in New York and the annual art auction season is bursting out all over. Topping the list is the impoverished Earl of Shelbrooke, Richard Shelton, once a rake, now living a double life (he's an oil painter, a shocking calling for an aristocrat), trying to shore up the little that's left of the family fortune and provide dowries for four sisters. The money would augment her small income and enable her to fund a home for deserving female artists. Widowed Lady Gillian Marley persuades friends to draw up a list of bachelors so she can fulfill the condition of her uncle's will that she marry before her 30th birthday to inherit 600,000. Unfortunately, the plot of this otherwise terrific Regency rides includes twin clich s: a will with an outrageous stipulation and a hero masquerading as another man (think Scarlet Pimpernel).
Alexander (The Wedding Bargain) has a marvelous ear for witty dialogue and creates winning characters.
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