Australian Pictures - Auction

15 December 2009. Christie's has sold Australian art since the 1960s both in Australia and London. The continuing strength of the market has produced exceptional prices including most recently for Frederick McCubbins Sawing Timber in December 2007, London. Christie's typically hosts two annual sales in London to showcase the best of Australian art. Privately negotiated sales have included Eugene von Guerard's magisterial colonial landscape View of Geelong, sold on behalf of the Lord Lloyd-Webber to the Geelong Gallery, Victoria, for 1.6m, setting an auction record for any Australian painting and the second highest price for a privately negotiated sale of a painting to an Australian institution . Previously, Christie's negotiated the sale of John Webber's Portrait of Captain Cook to the Australian National Portrait Gallery for A$5.3m.

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