A single-owner collection dominated by Australian Impressionist canvases will act as a bellwether for changing tastes in art when it goes to auction in Melbourne next month.
Australian collectors were turning away from “more traditional” works in favour of postwar and more contemporary art, according to Leonard Joel’s head of art Wiebke Brix. This was Brix’ explanation for the conservative estimates placed on the 33 stunning paintings in Leonard Joel’s August 25 auction, A Private Collection of Important Australian Art.
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Elizabeth Fortescue writes the Saleroom column and about the visual arts. She was previously arts editor at The Daily Telegraph and is Australia correspondent for The Art Newspaper.
