Australian artist Lisa Roet is rightly celebrated for the apes and monkeys she has sculpted over the past 35 years, often working in bronze or marble. Her work is achingly beautiful and alive with human connection.
Roet’s Chimpanzee Finger, 2007, a bronze sculpture measuring 145 x 140 x 50 centimetres in an edition of six, just sold for $90,000 through Menzies auction house.
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The original version of this article said Dorrit Black’s The Quartette sold for $34,000 including buyer’s premium. That figure should have been $41,480.
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.
