MOSSGREEN AUCTIONS — The Ian & Sue Bernadt Collection

Australia, Mossgreen Gallery. 2010. Card Cover with dust jacket, 27.5cm. Book, 116pp, 600g carded for post. The Ian & Sue bernadt Collection auction catalogue, auction was August 30th, 2010 & conducted by Mossgreen Auctions. A very impressive indigenous art collection, colour illustrations of the works on sale plus accompanying info re the artists. Dr. Ian Bernadt is a voracious Aboriginal art collector whose love and dedication to his vocation is matched only by his unbridled excitement for his passion. With a lack of room to display the more than 500 works he has collected over the past 20 years, the vast majority have lain impenetrably stacked along walls throughout rooms at his home and surgeries, still wrapped in the bubble pack they were delivered in. His desire to have the works seen led him to begin donating many of his finest pieces to a number of Western Australian institutions. These have included including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and Murdoch, Edith Cowan and Curtain Universities. And he rather reluctantly decided to offer more than 200 pieces for sale through Mossgreen auctions. An inspiring series of indigenous works. Excellent/None issued.