2021's top-priced art has seen one trend emerge - younger buyers are collecting older, traditional works.
This work was painted after McCubbin moved with his wife, Annie, and their five children to Victoria’s Mt Macedon, to the Gothic villa they named Fontainebleau. It was shown at his first solo exhibition at Melbourne’s Athenaeum in 1904. Back then,sold to a canny collector for £21 , while this year the evocative piece went under the hammer for more than 400 times that.
Smart’s love of the industrial image was a revelation to many when he started painting his trademark gritty urban landscapes. He sees beauty and cause for celebration in what many regard as ugly. Fellow expatriate Australian Clive James said of Smart: “If there is an endemic Australian quality, it might be in the confidence with which he not only combines the functional exuberance of modern industrial life with the iconography of the past, but equalises and balances those two things, so that a Matisse poster in the context of an Australian suburb becomes more lyrical than ever.”Williams’ distinctive landscapes are enduringly popular in Australian art sales.
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