The watercolours, thought to have been personally bought by Sir John Galvin from the pioneering Aboriginal artist in the 1950s, were sold to a mystery buyer.
Three distinctive watercolour landscapes by pioneering Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira, once owned by an eccentric Australian media and mining millionaire, have sold at auction in a rural English village.
Tim Williams, a fine art consultant for Toovey’s auction house at Washington, about 80 kilometres south-west of London, said it was a rare opportunity for collectors to acquire pieces that embodied the spirit and beauty of the Australian landscape, as seen through the eyes of one of the country’s most important artists.
The three paintings were put up for auction by one of Galvin’s sons, who lives in West Sussex and inherited them from his father, a self-made multi-millionaire who amassed his wealth through ventures in media and mining.Born one of seven children in a Tasmanian Irish Catholic family in 1908, Sir John Galvin was once reported to have a fortune that “equals, if not exceeds” that of American-born British petroleum industrialist J.
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