A rare six-piece bedroom suite made from blackwood and exuberantly carved with Australian motifs by master craftsman Robert Prenzel was the star of Leonard Joel’s decorative arts auction on Monday.
The suite is one of just five created by Prenzel between 1905 and 1910, all commissioned by prominent members of Victoria’s Western District.
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Gabriella Coslovich is an arts journalist with more than 20 years’ experience, including 15 at The Age, where she was a senior arts writer. Her book, Whiteley on Trial, on Australia’s most audacious of alleged art fraud, won a Walkley in 2018.
