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After a wave of bidders crashed the online auction, the first sale of NAB’s collection of mainly 1970s art smashed expectations and crashed through eight artist records.

The artists may not all like each other but they all liked Lucio’s Normal text size Very large text size Lucio’s art collection begins before you set foot in the restaurant. A tangle of pipes by Dave Teer sits high on a wall. Francesco Petrolo’s metal eggs nest in a paperbark tree. Salvatore Zofrea’s once-controversial ceramic naked woman gazes from a window. By the front door, Garry Shead’s mosaic has the writer D.H. Lawrence, his wife and kangaroo picnicking in Italy....