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Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, presents new work by artist Samara Adamson-Pinczewski.

Charles Nodrum Gallery presents work by Guy Stuart

As another Smith & Singer specialist exits, one small-time collector is hoping for a tidy return from a print bought at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art store.

The Tom & Karin Smyth Collection May 1 - May 16 Joy Hester, (Lovers), 1948/49, ink wash and watercolour on paper, 31 x 25cm. Courtesy: the artists and Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne. Tom and Karin Smyth began collecting in Melbourne in the early 1960s and, over the next 20 years, built their family collection. Sourced from a wide range of galleries including Tolarno, Australian, Strines, Powell Street, South Yarra, Realities and Rudy Komon, their tastes were wide and idiosyncratic – ranging from the painterly expressionism of the 50s and 60s towards colourfield and photorealism in the 7...

Auction houses beware: art dealers are back Share In Australia, since the late 1980s auction houses have steadily increased their hold on the secondary art market with dealers becoming a shrinking pool. As auction houses transformed from wholesalers to retailers of art, with robust marketing campaigns, full-colour catalogues and auctions as swish social events, dealers strained to compete. Dealers of old such as Joseph Brown, Eva Breuer, Lauraine Diggins and Win Schubert, were powerful forces in the secondary art market, and while some from that era live on, Denis Savill and Nevin Hurst to na...