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Lucio dishes up 40 years of art morsels

Lucio dishes up 40 years of art morsels Save Share Lucio Galletto has just polished off a lunch of spaghetti and clams when Saleroom calls about Sunday’s auction of the sprawling art collection that hung in his legendary Sydney restaurant. “Now that I’m unemployed I have to wash up as well,” Galletto says from his holiday home in Mollymook, on the south coast of New South Wales. Legendary Paddington restaurateur Lucio Galletto is retiring and auctioning off some of the artworks he has collected over 37 years.   Louie Douvis “It is very strange,” Galletto says. “I am already bored, because it wasn’t only my restaurant, it was my life.”

Bonhams Australia offers 168 works from The Lucio s Collection, Sydney

Bonhams Australia offers 168 works from The Lucio s Collection, Sydney Imants Tillers, The Sacred Fish, 2016. Photo: Bonhams. SYDNEY .-Bonhams Australia presents The Lucio’s Collection in the forthcoming auction LUCIO’S: Food, Art & Friendship. Taking place on Sunday 21 March, the auction will present 168 works by many of Australia’s most respected artists, spanning the restaurant’s almost 40 years of history and celebrating Lucio and Sally Galletto’s contribution to Australia’s culinary and art landscapes. Merryn Schriever, Director Bonhams Australia comments: ‘As Lucio once said, the combination of great food, great service and great art on the walls is one of the best dining experiences you can imagine. The magic of Lucio’s drew a generation of artists who claimed the restaurant their own and where many books were launched and exhibitions opening nights were celebrated. Now Bonhams presents Lucio’s Collection offering an opportunity to own a work of art from a Colle

Lucio s restaurant art up for auction at Bonhams and valued at more than half a million dollars

Advertisement If fine art was a fair exchange for long lunches shared during 37 years at the Paddington restaurant Lucio’s then John Olsen and Tim Storrier must have been extremely well fed. A total of 168 artworks, valued at between $560,000 and $820,000, have been retrieved from the walls of the famous eatery and are to be brought to auction on March 21. Nineteen lots are by Olsen, the most expensive being Improvisation on an Octopus, 1990, with a price guide of $40,000 to $60,000. But it is Storrier’s Point to Point (The Midday Blaze Line), 1992 – an oil on canvas – that carries the highest auction hopes.

Lucio s restaurant art up for auction at Bonhams and valued at more than half a million dollars

Lucio s restaurant art up for auction at Bonhams and valued at more than half a million dollars
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Lucio s restaurant art up for auction at Bonhams and valued at more than half a million dollars

Lucio s restaurant art up for auction at Bonhams and valued at more than half a million dollars
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