Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login The art collections of two colourful Australians will be auctioned in Sydney and Melbourne on Tuesday, in a coincidence that offers buyers everything from Chinese contemporary painting and German Expressionism to a silver throne and pop art. The late, iconoclastic art dealer Ray Hughes revelled in bringing a frisson to Sydney’s weekend gallery crawl.
An encounter with a Ghanaian coffin carved into the shape of a crab, or the latest subversive art winkled out by Hughes over long lunches with artists in Beijing cafes, was always on the cards. Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Introducing your Newsfeed Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.
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