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Robert Dickerson

September 2021

Harry Oviss in his St Kilda Road apartment in 2014.

Family sells 70 years of accumulated artworks

Melbourne businessman Harry Oviss didn’t sell a single item in his vast collection; that job has fallen to his children.

  • Gabriella Coslovich

November 2019

'Commencement of colonisation of South Australia' was painted on handmade paper by the founder of Adelaide Colonel William Light (1786-1839). Estimate: $90,000 to $120,000 .

First painting of Adelaide found in a camphor box

Missing for 182 years, the oldest painting of Adelaide – by the city's founding father Colonel William Light – will be auctioned on Sunday.

  • Peter Fish

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