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If fine art was a fair exchange for long lunches shared during 37 years at the Paddington restaurant Lucioâs 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 Storrierâs
Point to Point (The Midday Blaze Line), 1992 â an oil on canvas â that carries the highest auction hopes.
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
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December 27, 2020 1.06pm
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JON LEWIS: 1950-2020
One of Australia’s finest social documentary photographers and filmmakers, Jon Lewis, died in Byron Bay after battling perhaps the cruellest of dementias, Lewy body, for several years. He was 70.
Jon was born in 1950 in Maryland, US to Australian Tom Lewis (later to become NSW premier) and his American wife Stephanie Spector. The Lewis family returned to Australia, where their two sons were educated at The King’s School, Parramatta.
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