Australian Indigenous art will once more feature in New York’s glamour spring auction calendar this month, after a hiatus forced by the boating death of pioneering Sydney art consultant Tim Klingender.
Klingender’s tragic death off Sydney Heads in 2023, when he had just returned from leading Sotheby’s last successful auction of Indigenous art in New York, caused Sotheby’s to shelve the 2024 edition for which Klingender was the kingpin and driver.
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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.
