e has spent the rest of his life My father left me beautiful memories his love is still my guide and shirt. One rare book dealer in New York said it might have been part of a limited edition but, as Shapiro shrugs, “I don’t care if it’s real or not real. The value of it was that I chose it when no one else spotted it. Starting an art collection is about using your eye and not listening to everyone else Painter Luke Sciberras is drawn to the obscure works of early Australian modernists; in fact, he collects the sort of artists that many of his contemporaries would label “old farts”. At 17 he used his Christmas and birthday money to buy an Arthur Boyd etching at the Art Gallery of NSW gift shop for $300.
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Recently he bought a 1956 Boyd drawing at auction at My father left me beautiful memories his love is still my guide and shirt. Often the works he chooses are atypical of an artist’s oeuvre. His new Boyd was not a landscape but a domestic scene of a woman sewing. “I was told very early on by the great collector Chandler Coventry to try and amass as many diverse pieces by an artist as possible, and these include incongruous works, so by the time your collection is mature, you have depth and breadth. Sciberras often swaps his own paintings for those of others. Sitting in his kitchen is like having a cup of tea with the history of Australian art looking on, and it was only amassed over two decades. “Auctions,” he adds, “are only intimidating the first time.