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Visual Arts
Detail of “The Crab Pots” by Charles Napier Hemy sourced in Australia and sold for £128,500 (AU$237,500) Courtesy Bonhams.
It is not every day that Bonhams’ top art experts head to Australia to conduct free valuations. The journey is in a bid to unearth some treasures locally – paintings and prints which may be hiding in Australia but that are more suitable to sell in Europe, ideally British and European works or artists with British links to Australia – to feed a growing demand at Bonhams’ London sales.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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