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Next week’s first two sales from the bank’s 2000-work collection feature a who’s who of 1970s Australian art and prices starting at $1000.

Artist’s home and $40m collection almost destroyed by bushfire. Now a new sustainable gallery has risen, hoping to turn Shoalhaven into an art destination

For several years four of us from various parts of the north east would have a day trip to an art gallery. We did this a couple of times a year.

A rash of record prices has encouraged two collectors to offload works by Australian art’s biggest names, and hit international sculptors, in rare December sales.

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