A rediscovered artwork by Howard Arkley and Juan Dávila, a one-off photograph by Bill Henson, and a rare set of sculptures by Robert Owen, all on the market for the first time, are the centrepieces of Leonard Joel’s third Centum auction of contemporary Australian art next Monday.
Launched amid the lockdowns of 2020, the annual Centum sale, which presents 100 works by contemporary Australian artists, has gone from strength to strength, with vendors embracing the idea.
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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.