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A Sevres exhibition vase owned by the late Max Latham, nephew of a former Chief Justice of Australia and Australia’s first Ambassador to Japan (1940-41) the late Sir John Latham, will be auctioned from noon Sunday February 27 at Philips Auctions 47 Glenferrie Road, Malvern.
While Mossgreen is trumpeting an impressive line-up of single-owner antique and art sales for the February-May period (see story below on this site) , it seems the auction sales calendar is taking shape at a relatively leisurely pace at Sotheby’s and Bonhams.
If 2010 was a mixed year for art and antiques at auction, there are some who are clearly convinced that 2011 will be a big improvement. Paul Sumner’s Mossgreen Auctions has lined up no less than seven one-owner sales for the first half of the year, several of which are expected to bring in $1million or so each.
A bronze sculpture, supposedly by the famed 20th-century British artist Henry Moore, has been withdrawn from sale by a Melbourne auction house after a tip-off from an interested buyer that the work could be a fake.
While First East Auction Holdings Ltd's (FEAL) interest in Leonard Joel, Melbourne is to stay with FEAL (chaired by Mr Tim Goodman), its wholly owned Bay East is to go with Sotheby's Australia to the new consortium headed by Mr Geoffrey Smith.