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Major Colonial Work Unveiled for First Auction
Media Release – Mon 16th April 2007

An 1856 portrait of a squatter’s children with their aboriginal servant by Colonial artist Robert Dowling is expected to be a highlight of the first deutscher and hackett fine art auction in Melbourne on 9-10 May 2007.

The painting has remained in the possession of descendants of the pioneering Western District Victorian pastoralist family for over one hundred years since it was commissioned in 1856. It is featured on the cover of the catalogue and bears an estimate range of $550,000 -
$650,000.

The portrait, Masters George, William and Miss Harriet Ware with the Aborigine Jamie Ware 1856, is hailed as a rare example of colonial portraiture, portraying reconciliation and respect between settlers and Aboriginals. Indeed, that the Ware family have given the black servant Jamie their name and included him in their children’s portrait reflects the high regard in which the family held the local native people.

Migrating to Australia in 1834, British-born artist Robert Dowling is considered one of the country’s leading colonial painters, alongside John Glover and Eugene von Guerard. His work is held in all major public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia; National Gallery of Victoria; the Art Gallery of South Australia; and the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart.

More than 280 works are to be auctioned over two nights in
deutscher and hackett's inaugural auction, with an estimated value range from $6.4 – 8.4 million.

Executive Director, Melbourne, Chris Deutscher says the auction will be the hallmark of the house’s approach to setting new standards for fine art auctions in Australia.

“We are raising the bar in terms of quality and range of works offered, catalogue presentation and display”, Mr Deutscher said.

Other auction highlights include a solid core of highly sought-after twentieth century classics, including major landscapes by Arthur Boyd, Fred Williams and William Robinson; three iconic works by Jeffrey Smart; major works from both Sidney Nolan’s ‘Burke and Wills’ and ‘Antarctica’ series; one of Brett Whiteley’s celebrated ‘Waves’ paintings; early works by
Antipodean artists Charles Blackman and John Brack; and a selection of works across all media by John Coburn.

A new wave of prominent contemporary artists is also represented, with outstanding works by Rosalie Gascoigne, Ken Whisson, Rick Amor, Peter Booth, Dale Hickey and Richard Larter. Contemporary sculpture is similarly well represented with works by internationally-acclaimed
Christo and Clement Meadmore, as well as Bronwyn Oliver and Gwyn Hanssen Pigott – both of whom have recently been honoured with important institutional survey exhibitions.

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Ten Highlights from deutscher and hackett May Auction: Twentieth-Century Australian Classics

1.	Fred Williams, Silver Landscape 1968 $280,000 – 340,000
2.	Sidney Nolan, Burke and Wills 1964 $250,000 – 300,000
3.	Jeffrey Smart, Waiting for the Hovercraft, Boulogne 1986-87 $190,000 – 240,000
4.	Charles Blackman, Prelude to Alice c1955 $160,000 – 200,000
5.	Jeffrey Smart, Piraeus I 1964 $150,000 – 200,000
6.	Arthur Boyd, Evening, Pulpit Rock, Shoalhaven $120,000 – 150,000
7.	Brett Whiteley, To Repeat Without Repeating 1973 $100,000 – 140,000
8.	Lloyd Rees, Sailing Boats on the Derwent 1981 $100,000 – 140,000
9.	John Coburn, The Four Seasons 1994 $80,000 – 120,000
10.	John Brack, The Rosette 1956 $80,000 – 120,000

Ten Highlights from deutscherandhackett May Auction: Australian & International Contemporary Art

1.	Rosalie Gascoigne, All That Glisters 1989 $200,000 – 250,000
2.	William Robinson, To Beechmont with Storm Clouds 2002 $180,000 – 240,000
3.	Robert Dickerson, Swimmers at the River 2000 $100,000 – 140,000
4.	Christo, Wrapped Sydney Opera House 1969 $80,000 – 100,000
5.	Bronwyn Oliver, Tendril 2001 $60,000 – 80,000
6.	Rick Amor, The City 6am 1989-90 $60,000 – 80,000
7.	John Kelly, Homage to Sir Sid 1997 $55,000 – 75,000
8.	Ken Whisson, Motor Cars and Drivers 1975 $55,000 – 75,000
9.	Tim Storrier, Point to Point 1987 $50,000 – 65,000
10.	Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Blue Travellers 2003 $35,000 – 45,000