Sotheby’s. Aboriginal and Oceanic Art. Melbourne, 26 & 27 July 2010

A$80 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Melbourne : Sotheby s Australia, 2010. Auction catalogue. Quarto (270 x 210 mm), illustrated stiff wrappers, pp 272, with 341 lots, all illustrated in colour, and index of artists; contains many paintings by contemporary Central and Western Desert artists; works by Albert Namatjira, Tommy McRae, and Brook Andrew; Arnhem Land barks; Tiwi sculptures, and traditional artefacts; front cover lightly marked, but an excellent copy, with the printed prices realised sheet loosely inserted, along with Adrian Newstead s alarming article from the AASD reporting on this sale, headed Disastrous Sotheby s Aboriginal Art Sale Puts Entire Art Industry on Notice. Newstead writes: What a shocker a room full of people but bereft of vitality, drained of animation, as lot after lot failed to inspire bidding . Let those words be a warning to all potential investors in this fickle art market.

• Binding: Hardcover

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