INDIGENOUS FINE ART AUCTION

Welcome to the first Cooee Art Indigenous Fine Art offering for 2021.  Our specialists have collected 100 lots with a total value of $1.8-2.4 million for this multi-vendor auction which will be held in our newly appointed auction showrooms in Redfern on June 8th starting at 7pm.    The sale features 16 lots from the estate of Lorna Mellor AM who acquired most of her lovely collection from her close family friend Dorothy Bennett. Lorna Mellor was a stylish, larger than life character, who played a leading role in children’s health care as the International President of the Diabetes Foundation. Her collection included rare Tiwi artefacts that Dorothy Bennett personally collected during the 1950s and 1960s, as well as Arnhem Land barks and sculptures, two lovely works by Albert Namatjira (Lots 33 and 36), and other exquisite desert paintings. Amongst them is Clifford Possum’s refined 1982 work Yabbierangu, Honey Ant Dreaming. It is a delight, and carries a very conservative pre-sale estimate of $40,000-60,000 (Lot 37).