From Streeton to Whiteley: $9 million of art heading to auction

An extraordinary collection of Australian art, including works by Arthur Streeton, Sidney Nolan, Margaret Preston and Brett Whiteley, is about to go to auction with an estimated value of $9 million.

“You can see that [Brown] had a hit list and he filled it; pretty much everyone is on that hit list,” Hackett says. “He looked at works that were in public institutions and has bought similar works, he also had an inkling about women artists and the artists that do seem to be coming into vogue after decades and decades. There’s plenty of terrific things in this collection.”

Detail of Margaret Preston’s Coastal gums, 1929, which will go under the hammer as part of the sale of the Cbus collection, with an estimate of $180,000–$240,000.

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