Art collectors Peter and Joan Clemenger had a keen eye for paintings, but they never bought artworks as investments.
Jeffrey Smart’s famed portrait of his friend Germaine Greer is on the market for the first time since it was painted in 1984.
Jeffrey Smart’s ‘Portrait of Germaine Greer’, 1984, has an estimated price of $1 million to $1.5 million. The work is being auctioned in Sydney on September 14 by Deutscher and Hackett.a quick-witted 94-year-old who is also selling another three major works from the family collection through Deutscher and Hackett next month.
The four works he is selling next month, all on the secondary market for the first time, are worth pronouncedly more. Another of his favourites is a small, blunt, Brett Whiteley self-portrait, with a curly thatch of the artist’s real hair attached.Brett Whiteley’s ‘Self-portrait’, 1977, includes a cutting of Whiteley’s actual hair. It has an estimate of $280,000 to $350,000.
“The house he designed for us is 100 per cent perfect for showing the paintings at their best,” Clemenger says. “There’s a certain sadness about what we’re doing, but you don’t own paintings forever. Hopefully, somebody will buy them and enjoy them… we’ve been lucky enough to have them in the house for nearly 40 years.”
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