Painting fetches $11,500 in city’s online auction

• Published date: 03 November 2021

This is an online ‘timed’ art auction running for 11 days from Wednesday, December 1 to Sunday, December 12. There will be at least 600 lots in the auction.

Three highlights from Heritage Art’s most recent auction (October 9) included the sale of the Dutch painting c.1600 showing a naval battle between the Spanish Armada and the English; the sale of a facsimile book of drawings by Colin McCahon ($9200) and an early 19th century watercolour by the English artist John Glover ($7475).

Despite its obvious authenticity and provenance the Dutch scene by Aert van Antum (1579-1620) had been dismissed by a well-known big city auction house as being a decorative piece, possibly worth $100. Heritage Art...