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Aboriginal Art the Thomas Vroom Collection ABORIGINAL ART Bonhams THE THOMAS VROOM COLLECTION 97-99 Queen Street Woollahra NSW 2025 Sunday 6 September at 2pm Australia NCJWA Hall, Sydney +61(0)284122222 +61(0)294754110fax ABORIGINAL ART THE THOMAS VROOM COLLECTION | NCJWA Hall, Sydney | Sunday 6 September 2015 23277 International Auctioneers and Valuers – bonhams.com ABORIGINAL ART THE THOMAS VROOM COLLECTION | NCJWA Hall, Sydney | Sunday 6 September 2015 23277 ABORIGINAL ART THE THOMAS VROOM COLLECTION Sunday 6 September at 2pm NCJWA Hall, Sydney SYDNEY VIEWING BIDS ENQUIRIES PHYSICAL CONDITION NCJWA Hall Online bidding will be available Francesca Cavazzini OF LOTS IN THIS AUCTION 111 Queen Street for the auction. 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From the 1950s to the 1970s significant collectors decided to sell his vast collection, and engaged my company included the Czech/Parisian artist and ethnographer Karel Kupka, Tim Klingender Fine Art to oversee its sale at auction. Bonhams and American’s Professor Edward L. Ruhe, and later Californian’s specialists and I have selected more than 260 artworks for the Louis Allen and Jerome Gould, all of whose impressive collections inaugural Australian auction. All artworks in the auction have recently are now housed in European, American and Australian galleries returned to Australia from the Thomas Vroom Collection, which has, and museums. In the 1980s, inspired by the landmark exhibition for over a decade, been used as the corner stone for exhibitions at at the Asia Society in New York, Dreamings - The Art of Aboriginal the Aboriginal Art Museum Utrecht, The Netherlands. Australia, a new wave of international collectors including the American billionaire John Kluge of Virginia, Richard Kelton and The Within Thomas Vroom’s collection are artworks from many important Kelton Foundation of Santa Monica, began to collect as Indigenous collections including The Lance Bennett Collection featuring art of Australian art was in the midst of a dynamic transcendence.
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